I’m thankful that Tom Paine has published the story I desperately wanted to see written after the Vice Presidential debate. I was going to write up an item on Dick Cheney’s comment that he his vastly increased wealth over the past five years had nothing to do with the government, but frankly, I was too lazy to do the legwork. Fortunately, someone else did. There was a New York Times article about the billions of dollars in government contracts Halliburton got while Cheney was CEO awhile back (which I linked to), so I was more than a bit shocked at Cheney’s statement. And he calls Al Gore a liar …