McDermott And Ethics Don’t Go Hand in Hand. Then Again, He’s a Democrat

Remember that GOP conference call, back in 1996 run by, among other people Newt Gingrich? Remember how it had been given to the Democrats and suddenly ended up on the air?

Seattle, Wa- KNDO WASHINGTON A House ethics panel says

Byron York over at The Corner raises an interesting issue:

I have a new story up about reports that U.S. intelligence tapped Princess Diana’s phones in 1997.  It’s tempting to dismiss such accounts, especially given the sensational nature of some

William Jefferson’s re-election in Lousiana run-off has complicated life for Mrs. Pelosi.   Having campaigned on a promise to drain the republican swamp, Mrs.. Pelosi finds herself surrounded by democrat allegators.

For The Hill, Alexander Bolton, reports “CBC wants

WASHINGTON — The sterile, confused lame-duck session of the Republican-controlled 109th Congress ended with a quiet victory by reformers that staved off an estimated 10,000 earmarks. But it could not be called a farewell to pork. Last Thursday, as the

Now that Democrats are back in power the politics of fear and envy is back in vogue.

It’s hard to open a newspaper or watch the news without hearing about the “income gap” or the “wealth gap.”

CNN anchor Lou

Newsmax;

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is polishing up one of her more famous phrases as she edges closer to a presidential run, writing in a new introduction to her book “It Takes a Village” that Sept. 11 and the Internet

In a perverse illlustration of Jimmy Carter’s moral sense, or lack of same, the Associated Press reports,  “Gaza gunmen target children:”

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian gunmen killed three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer

Steyn is in rare form this morning:

So there you have it: an Iraq “Support Group” that brings together the Arab League, the European Union, Iran, Russia, China and the U.N. And with support like that who needs lack of

NOLA.COM- Confounding political pundits and a slew of rivals who had become confident of his defeat, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, neatly sidestepped a roiling federal corruption probe to win re-election on Saturday to his ninth term in Congress. 

The House Ethics Committee Report includes new information that top Democrats were also aware in 2005 of Mark Foley’s inappropriate e-mails to congressional pages at about the same time as outgoing Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office was informed.While the report is

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Lo and behold, it seems like that Mrs. Pelosi hand picked chairman for the House Intelligence Committee needs a crash course in intelligence.  Bill Faith, of Bill’s Bites reports on “Intelligence? Un pocito:”

Hume:

A longtime adviser to Jimmy Carter has resigned his position as a Carter Center fellow over the former president’s new book. Emory University professor Kenneth Stein wrote in a letter to Mr. Carter that the title of the book

Michelle Malkin:

Deborah Frisch, the infamous left-wing blogger/stalker who threatened Protein Wisdom blogger Jeff Goldstein and his family, had an arrest warrant issued against her today. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft attended the hearing and reports the details:

Many of you

Hamas is claiming to have meet with US democratic party delegation:

(IsraelNN.com) Unnamed sources in the Islamist Hamas terror organization, currently holding power in the Palestinian Authority, said today that a Hamas delegation met with senior members of

Stossel over at Townhall:

But the idea that liberals give more is a myth. Of the top 25 states where people give an above-average percentage of their income, all but one (Maryland) were red — conservative — states in the