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Welcome to the next installment of the continuing saga: Mary Mapes vs. the Blogs, in which, for good measure, she takes on reality, too. And at the same time, we can consider the rise, fall -- and possible comeback -- of Mapes as part of the ongoing power-struggle between the MSM (Main Stream Media) and the New Media (NM). If you don't know that Mapes is the former CBS News producer who was the driving force behind the September 8, 2004 broadcast on "60 Minutes II," attacking George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard -- which was...

WASHINGTON Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, has been pilloried for suggesting that women may be biologically unsuited to succeed at mathematics. He may have a point. Just look at Condoleezza Rice. She's clearly a well-educated, intelligent woman, versed in Brahms and the Bolsheviks, who has just been rewarded for her loyalty with the most plum assignment in the second Bush cabinet. Yet her math skills are woefully inadequate. She can't do simple equations. She doesn't even know that X times zero equals zero. If you multiply 1,370 dead soldiers times zero weapons of mass destruction, that equals zero...

To discuss President Bush's speech on corporate accountability, Katie's only guest was Arthur Levitt, Clinton's former SEC Chairman. And, surprise, surprise!, Levitt didn't think that Pres. Bush had gone far enough in proposing reforms. No one was invited from the Bush administration or from the securities or accounting industry to suggest that W had hit the right note. Katie tried to egg Levitt on, suggesting that having Bush appointee Harvey Pitt as SEC Chairman was "like having the fox guarding the henhouse." Levitt didn't rise to the bait, flatly stating that Pitt was highly qualified. Katie was clearly crestfallen, as...