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)