From Bob Owens, via email: Another Beauchamp claim that TNR claimed to have fact checked, debunked in two emails. Why should we still care? Because that is now three fictional claims made by Beauchamp in “Dead of Night,” prior to “Shock Troops.” If TNR’s editors had done their jobs then, they probably wouldn’t have published “Shock Troops,” and wouldn’t be worried about their employment situations now. Perhaps. But such a

From the WSJ: Hillary Clinton has been catching heat for refusing to swear off campaign cash from lobbyists, with critics accusing her of being a stooge of corporate and special interests. We’d say she deserves some credit. At last week’s YearlyKos event, former Senator John Edwards stooped for an easy applause line by challenging his fellow candidates to refuse donations from “Washington lobbyists.” Mrs. Clinton refused to take the sound-bite

From Breitbart: Karl Rove, President Bush’s close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration. A longtime member of Bush’s inner circle, Rove was nicknamed “the architect” by the president for designing the strategy that twice won him the White House. Bush

Of course, it helps that Guiliani, McCain, and (Fred) Thompson opted out. Full results here. The big story is this: Huckabee takes second, besting a fading Brownback. To which I say, Huckabee? Isn’t he the guy who wants to enforce junk food taxes and thinks one of the most important missions for a President is to combat the scourge of obesity? Whatever. Maybe we can have national morning exercises. For

TNR: Although the Army says it has investigated Beauchamp’s article and has found it to be false, it has refused our–and others’–requests to share any information or evidence from its investigation. What’s more, the Army has rejected our requests to speak to Beauchamp himself, on the grounds that it wants “to protect his privacy.”… Scott Beauchamp is currently a 23-year-old soldier in Iraq who, for the past 15 days, has

Markos Moulwhatever — “Kos” — will be debating Harold Ford Jr on “Meet the Press” this Sunday. Kos, evidently, is going to tell us all where the “real” center of American public opinion lies. Just as he did in a Washington Post editorial. POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT: the American “center”? Turns out it aligns perfectly with the “progressive” netroots movement! Which means, of course, that Hillary Clinton and Harold Ford Jr

I’ll be off running errands much of the day (the Rockies, now with Josh Fogg as their number three starter, are all but dead, so it’s time to prep for Broncos season, which means buying a smoker and some of those big foam fingers), so I encourage you to take some time and visit the protein wisdom pub, where the links are plentiful, and the bowls of peanuts just might

heavyset woman in straw hat: ” — No, you don’t need a foosball table, Henry. Nobody needs a foosball table.” thin man in John Deere hat: “Yeah, well nobody needs a wife with an ass you can show movies on, either — yet here we are…”

From India PR Wire: Billy Quinn and Declan Moore, two archaeologists with Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services (Moore Group) in Galway, believe that an extensive brewing tradition existed in Ireland as far back as 2500 BC. In an article to be published in Archaeology Ireland next month, they detail their experiments and research into the enigmatic site that is the fulacht fiadh. These monuments (of which there are approx. 4500),