Via email, Dario R. writes: Your Rovegate title is accurate on more than one level.  Even after the announcement Leopold was claiming his sources were correct and that Rove would be indicted.  As you read the interview you can actually see Jason Leopold formulating his Rather excuse and that is that Rove really was indicted four weeks ago, just something changed between then and now.  So he was indicted before

*must credit protein wisdom* Jason Leopold is reporting that Rove also had an Iced Caramel Macchiato (venti), and that the bagel he was eating (poppy) was smothered in lox, capers, raw onion, and pig’s blood—but even TruthOut is approaching that last bit with caution.  Developing…

Rove attorney Robert Luskin speaks to a bit of new media overreach, specifically, to partisan attempts by many bloggers and (fringe) journalists—the vast majority of whom list leftward, politically—to practically will his client’s phantom indictment.  From the NY Observer, “Rove Case Lawyer Blackberries Karl: ‘Fitzgerald Called’”: Mr. Luskin does not gnash his teeth at Mr. Fitzgerald. “It’s not winning the lottery,” he said of the Rove case. “It’s just avoiding

As many of you know, I’m not a fan of having National Guard troops patrol the southern border, and not simply because Bill O’Reilly is for it (though that certainly is a factor), but because I have long believed that any actual deployment of Guard troops to act as immigration police would be more ostentatious than substantive—itself a good thing, because the first shooting of an unarmed illegal by a

…to the US Army, which today turns 231—though to look at it, you’d swear it couldn’t possibly be a day over 40.  And it still moves pretty well for its age, too—as quite a few erstwhile “freedom fighters” in Iraq and Afghanistan would be the first to tell you. If they weren’t off humping white raisins in Paradise, that is. **** (h/t STACLU; see also, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)

“So another ‘council’ of pale faces has decided to play scalp the Indian and recommend my termination, so what?  What did you expect?  The basic situation here is that there was a call by high officials in the state, notably the governor but hardly restricted to the governor, for my termination clear back last February.  Still, this entire investigation into my academic work has been both illegitimate and illegal—just another

They only do it because they love the troops that damn much… It’s tough love, is what it is.  And sometimes, that’s the only kind of love that works—especially when you’re dealing with knuckledragging jarhead killbots produced by serial red state inbreeding.  Bless their li’l mutant hearts. **** (h/t Charles Johnson; Allah has more)

1.  Patterico is collecting donations for an LAPD officer who was shot and paralyzed in the line of duty.  If you have a few bucks to spare, or a blog on which to link the post, please do so. 2.  Michele Catalano at Faster Than the World has compiled a list of the 100 greatest punk songs of all time and invites you to vote for your favorites.  Oh, and