James Pethokoukis looks at the 57-page Larry Summers memo Ryan Lizza used for his

Elitism at its most pretentious and odious, frankly, because the unspoken acknowledgment here is that SCOTUS Justices are capable of self-determining if they should or should not offer recusal based on conflicts of interest. Their ethical senses being so finely honed and all, and their integrity beyond reproach, now that the Senate has confirmed them (and even if they lied to achieve confirmation). It would be gauche to point out

Stunning, I know: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who’s Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows. The firm, Covington & Burling, is one of Washington’s biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and other federal ethics experts

Mark Thiessen, WaPo: Instead of putting Gingrich on the defensive for channeling Michael Moore, Romney spent not one but two debates on the defensive over releasing his tax returns. At the conclusion of Thursday’s CNN debate, Romney was asked if he had any regrets about his campaign. He replied that he regretted the time he had spent talking about his opponents instead of focusing on Barack Obama. Wrong answer. His

GOP Senators who refuse full-body patdowns are now considered terror risks. Or rather, they need to know who’s in charge of whom. CBS: Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Monday found himself in a showdown with the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tennessee after refusing to undergo a full-body pat down. The senator went through the scanner at the airport but was told there was some sort of “anomaly”

Many of you (and I include myself) have remained cautiously dubious about the White House Insider series posted by “Ulsterman.” And yet much of what the “Insider” — be he real or a composite or just the prescient and convincing invention of a gifted fabulist — has predicted has come to pass, albeit in sometimes quite oblique ways (leaving one to wonder if what we’re dealing with is nothing more