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It is an overdone cliché to thank the good Lord for Friday, but this has been a particularly long week, so stringing a coherent column together might be beyond my capability today.  But that won’t stop me from some Friday musings.  Read more...

• Talk about Chutzpah.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seriously considering ditching the outside ethics panel that she trumpeted as one of the most important achievements of her tenure.  She did it because she wanted to convince the voters that Democrats were the most ethical people in the whole, entire world.  It didn’t work. Most voters still think the Democrats are incurably corrupt.  According to news reports, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are leading the charge to neuter the Office of Congressional Ethics, because that office has the temerity to look at what the members of the CBC are actually doing and ignoring what they are saying.