Madoff Makes Latest Scammers Look Like Amateurs: Ann Woolner Thomas Petters had no idea a device on his assistant’s key ring was recording him when he said not to worry about the “crime” they were committing.

Zip Your Lip, Stay Dressed When Feds Eavesdrop: Ann Woolner A surprising number of otherwise smart people find themselves remarking on the phone that they hope the line isn’t tapped.

Skilling, Black Say Ditch ‘Honest Services’ Law: Ann Woolner College coaches who cheat at recruiting, congressmen on the take, executives who lie to stockholders. There is a crime for that, for all of that.

Non-Christians Find Cross Hard to Bear: Ann Woolner (Update1) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, that towering intellect of the conservative legal movement, sounded appallingly ignorant last week.

O’Connor Leaves Court Then Gripes About the Result: Ann Woolner On first read, remarks from Sandra Day O’Connor last week look like gross understatement.

Judge’s Sex With Prosecutor Gets a Pass in Texas: Ann Woolner If you find yourself in a court of law with your money or your freedom at stake, you wouldn’t much like it if the judge was sleeping with your opponent’s lawyer.

Polanski’s Art No Shield for Sex Crime With Child: Ann Woolner Roman Polanski is an enormously talented film director who has suffered tragedy time and again. He is also an admitted child molester who fled the U.S. rather than face punishment.

Hillary Movie Ensures Bad Viewing, Worse Campaigns: Ann Woolner Washington wants to come between me and my doctor, a television commercial warns. I suspect the group that bought the spot worries less about my well-being than its own.

Obama Brainwashes Vulnerable Children’s Minds: Ann Woolner At the moment President Barack Obama strode to the podium in Arlington, Virginia, yesterday, fifth- graders watching from M. Agnes Jones Elementary School in Atlanta clapped their hands and cheered with glee.

AIG of Drugmakers Pfizer Is Too Big to Be Guilty: Ann Woolner Pfizer Inc. sales folks had one tough customer in psychiatrist Stefan Kruszewski. He didn’t buy their pitch to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug Geodon to children, a use that hadn’t been approved by federal regulators.