On Fox News Sunday today, Bill Kristol threw cold water on Herman Cain‘s presidential candidacy, arguing that regardless of his popularity among conservative voters and whether or not his sexual harassment scandal will end up helping or hurting him, there was very little chance in the first place he was ever going to be the Republican nominee.

Yesterday, Herman Cain’s campaign manager, Mark Block, made a point of shying away from previous statements he had made connecting the leak of Cain’s old sexual harassment settlements with Rick Perry’s team. Considering how badly those accusations were received, it’s not surprising that the rest of Cain’s campaign has followed Block in backtracking, returning to their original target, the media, as well as their original suspected motivation, racism. The ad accuses the entire mainstream media of a “high tech lynching” in their coverage of that story.

In 2006, legal commentator Jeffrey Rosen wrote that the Roberts court was among the most united and civil in history. In this month’s New Republic, however, Rosen revisits the Court to find it factionalizing in surprising ways, threatening the existence of any single definition of legal conservatism. While Rosen puts the blame on no one, one new phenomenon of the past five years seems directly related to this rift: the Tea Party, for which Rosen argues Justice Clarence Thomas has emerged as its “legal arm.”

Earlier today the Supreme Court officially struck down a California ban on selling violent video games to minors, stating officially that “video games qualify for First Amendment protection.” The official vote was 7-2 against the ban, with Justices Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas dissenting.

Megyn Kelly discussed reports that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner is leading a charge to have Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disbarred for perjury and investigated for allegations of bribery. Weiner has passionately argued before for Thomas to recuse himself for cases on healthcare reform because of an alleged bias, and now if these reports are true, Weiner is intensifying the fight.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has recently come under political attack for not reporting his wife’s income and “dropping by” a secret corporate fundraiser. Last night Stephen Colbert “defended” the embattled Thomas, not just from alleged tax evasion, but also from charges that he was inappropriately paid for attending a conservative political retreat. “It wasn’t a bribe,” Colbert chided, “it was a reward!” He then proceeded to call the taciturn Thomas up on the phone.

Former radio talk show host and Tea Party favorite Herman Cain may be the first Republican 2012 candidate out of the gate this year, and as such may be the first African-American conservative to earn the title. While November 2012 is still more than a year away, Sean Hannity has already uncovered what he considers to be heinous racist rhetoric on the left, and Juan Williams, visiting the program tonight, appeared to wholeheartedly agree.

Given some of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s other TV appearances, putting him on Real Time with Bill Maher on uncensored HBO seemed like a can’t-miss idea. And if there was no talking over one another like, say, here, there were plenty of cracks about Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck’s audience…and Clarence Thomas‘ wife.

There’s a YouTube video currently making the rounds that purports to show “Progressive Rallyists Call(ing) for the Lynching of Clarence Thomas.” The clip does include a montage of reprehensible suggestions from people at a Koch Brothers protest, and the titular suggestion from a couple of people outside the rally, but the real surprise here is that conservative filmmaker Christian Hartsock spends the entire clip cheering them on!

Ginny Thomas‘ olive-branch extension to Anita Hill regarding her decades-old sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has brought the controversy back into the public eye. And wherever there’s controversy, there’s Larry King, who interviewed the Justice’s ex-girlfriend Lillian McEwen to discuss the matter. McEwen told King that even while she was dating Thomas, she assumed that he and and Ms. Hill were having “a sexual relationship.” She also said that Thomas would show her off to Hill, asking McEwen to “stand around in the office so that [Hill] would see and accept the fact that there was another woman in his life.”

Well its safe to say that no one probably expected this coda to the story of the Clarence Thomas hearings. Multiple sources are reporting that Ginny Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Tea Party organizer left a voicemail asking for an apology from Anita Hill, the former staffer of her husband and central figure in the allegations of sexual harassment that led to the “public lynching” as Mr. Thomas called it himself.

News broke yesterday that Derek Thomas, the nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had allegedly been beaten and tased by hospital security after being admitted and refusing to don a hospital gown. Thomas, who is an epileptic, reportedly suffered a massive seizure as a result of the incident.

Regarding the throngs of individuals attending Tea Party rallies today, Tax Day, Virginia Thomas said “more you get to know Tea partiers, there’s nothing to be afraid of.” The wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas was interviewed by Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto, and demurred at any direct questions about her husband, choosing instead to promote her newly formed Tea Party group, Liberty Central.

On the outside Liberty Central Inc. may look like another conservative tea partying lobbyist group, non-profit but accepting donations from corporate sponsors. Take a closer look though, and you’ll find the woman behind the organization is Virginia Thomas, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Which some critics are understandably worried might be a conflict of interest.

When Andrew Breitbart launched Big Government in September, we asked if he was gearing up to be the next Arianna Huffington: an opinion blog rainmaker with a one-stop digital powerhouse, but presented from the opposite end of the political spectrum. Three months later, hyperbole has become reality as Breitbart is adding to his network of vertical blogs, starting with Big Journalism, which will launch in January. In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Breitbart shared his vision for his expanding network of “Big” right-of-center sites: