Wolfowitz Resigns From World Bank

Ousting Gadhafi would not be the 'cakewalk' hawks make it out to be

(NEWSER) - The same hawks who drummed America into a "cakewalk" war in Iraq now want to march right in and liberate Libya, even though, in the case of Paul Wolfowitz, one "would think" he'd "have the good manners to shut up and take up horticulture," writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . But it's not just Wolfie, she says—joining him on the "Cakewalk Brigade" are John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and John Kerry. And, of course, these things are never cakewalks. More»

Boehner tells off Hunter, Graves, Terry, others

(NEWSER) - John Boehner has warned several Republican congressmen to stop flirting, dining, partying, and otherwise hanging out with female lobbyists. Boehner told the reps to “knock it off,” sources tell the New York Post , which dutifully tracked down the perpetrators. It caught Lee Terry, for example, chatting up an attractive, giggling lobbyist on Capitol Hill. “Why did you get me so drunk?” he asked, among other personal remarks. More»

Former madam slams university's decision

(NEWSER) - A Harvard University ethics center is hosting a lecture by none other than Eliot Spitzer tomorrow. The disgraced governor will speak about when it's right for the government to intervene in the markets. Despite the intellectual theme, his former madam tells the Daily News that Spitzer is a "man without ethics" who has no place at the university's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. More»

(AP) - Obama environmental adviser Van Jones is resigning amid controversy over past inflammatory statements. The so-called green jobs czar got into hot water this week when two things surfaced: He called Republicans "assholes" in a video made before he joined the administration, and he signed a petition supporting the "truther" movement, which alleges that the Bush administration allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen. More»

Gov will skate past latest allegations unscathed: Nate Silver

(NEWSER) - The latest ethics complaint against Sarah Palin—investigators believe she misused her position to solicit personal legal donations—won’t leave a scratch, writes Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. Here’s how to predict which scandals will make it big:

• Can it be reduced to a sound bite? Nope. Heck, the AP struggled to summarize it at all.
• Does it cut against a core element of her brand? Nope. McCain’s attempts to paint Palin as an ethics crusader never stuck.