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For good reason, there has been serious hand-wringing over what to do about the ethical lapses of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The fact that Supreme Court justices are exempt from the code of ethical conduct which applies to the rest of the federal judiciary; the problem of bringing a sitting justice before the Congress to question the conduct of a constitutional co-equal; the reality that justices cannot easily defend themselves against news media charges; the defiant, in-your-face posture of Thomas—the list goes on but it need not. There is clear precedent for how to deal with the justice....

McCain presidential campaign strategist Steve Schmidt went on the record with the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz today, revealing the depths to which the mainstream media has sunk in their efforts to destroy the family of Republican vice presidential pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.Schmidt said that the campaign has been deluged with demands from reporters that the Palin family submit to DNA testing to assuage baseless rumors promulgated by the Democratic party's favorite website, the Daily Kos.Schmidt accused the media of being "on a mission to destroy" Sarah Palin.Kurtz writes that Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the Daily Kos, believes the...

A left-wing website rescues clueless Democrats in the confirmation fight. When Melody Townsel, the Texas woman who claims that U.N.-ambassador nominee John Bolton chased her through a Moscow hotel, throwing things at her and "behaving like a madman," first tried to tell her story to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee showed no interest. It was only after she turned to the influential far-Left website DailyKos that Democrats on the committee realized Townsel might be a powerful weapon in their campaign to defeat the Bolton nomination. The story began on Friday, April 8, when Townsel e-mailed her story to...

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the blogger known as Kos (rhymes with rose) and publisher of the liberal blog, "The Daily Kos," has accidentally exposed the principal political tactic used by the liberal-left. Zúniga's faux pas occurs while responding to the contents of a press release from Judicial Watch, which absurdly claims the United States is protecting Osama ben Laden because the FBI has classified files relating to him. (link) Zúniga observes, in The Daily Kos on Thursday, April 21st, "For the uninitiated, Judicial Watch is a solidly conservative organization."  And then he drops the bombshell, "This isn't a bunch of...

Blogger's remorse Posted: December 31, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Kevin McCullough © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The combination of the greatest tragedy to hit mankind since Noah, and the emergence of the blogosphere is shining a pretty unflattering light on some from the left when it comes to just how "compassionate" they really are. This last week on my blog, I did a bit of an expose on three center-left blogs and their response to the tragedy of the earthquake-tsunami. The three I picked were the "shining stars" of the center-left blogosphere. Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall, Wonkette, and the Daily...

For a couple days this week, one of the most reviled men in the blogosphere was Jonathan Klein, formerly an executive at CBS News. Speaking on Friday about the scandal at 60 Minutes, which last week based part of a story on documents that were probably forged, he stuck up for the show he used to oversee by sneering at its online critics: "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at 60 Minutes] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." Since then, dozens of those pajama-clad bloggers have...