Several unsavory revelations about Gore’s presidential rivals hit last week and may give Gore a last-minute boost, according to this Online Journal commentary. The essayist hopes for more where this came from if the media start giving as much critical scrutiny to the other candidates as they have Gore. First, a new Rand Corp. study came out debunking the “Texas Eduational Miracle” phenomenon (based on an earlier Rand Corp. study) Dubya has been touting so highly in his campaign. Next, it is revealed that a company overseen until four months ago by Dick Cheney is under criminal investigation for fraudulent billing on federal contracts, i.e. bilking the government bigtime. And, with increasing attention to Nader’s role as a spoiler for Gore comes a proposal that he is actually more conservative than we give him credit for, according to an article by a senior fellow at the far-right National Center for Policy Analysis attempting to find a way to, as the saying goes, find a way to befriend the “enemy of my enemy.”