Police are looking for an exceptionally jittery suspect.

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And right-thinking conservatives everywhere are up in arms.

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Got “I’m Not Dead,” the new CD. I really, really like it, all of it. But “Dear Mr. President” will probably get the most attention.

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Rush Limbaugh arrested on charges of prescription fraud.
Now, who doesn’t believe in karma now?

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Uh huh:
(AP) Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican Party chairman, arranged the startup financing for a GOP telemarketing company implicated in two criminal cases involving election dirty tricks.
Virginia corporation records show Barbour’s investment company arranged a quarter-million dollar loan to GOP Marketplace in 2000 and also gave a promotional plug to the telemarketer several […]

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And they thought we were addicted to oil? Wait until they cut off our sugar:
Commodities are the greatest show on earth right now and one resource that’s about to defy gravity is sugar. Sugar prices in the next 12 months could surge, even double as key producing countries like Brazil refine sugar based ethanol as […]

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Go watch Colbert eviscerate Bill Kristol.

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Wonder why:
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania - At least 400 dead dolphins were found on Zanzibar’s northern coastline early Friday, alarming villagers, fishermen and tour operators, residents said.
It was not immediately clear what killed the dolphins, whose carcasses were found along a 2 1/2-mile stretch of Nungwi, a popular tourist destination in this semiautonomous Indian Ocean archipelago, said […]

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Laura has more.
A question on the limo service retained by Brent Wilkes getting a $21.2 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security last year, despite the fact that its owner apparently has a 62-page rap sheet which reporter Ken Silverstein has obtained. Until now we’ve been hearing a lot about congressmen from the appropriations […]

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I read this over at Duncan’s place and it brought back memories of my youngest son’s college admissions process. (Let me save you the $20K. Just another benefit of being a SG reader.)
He was an artist and an AP honor student. I had no money to help him get into college (his father even paid […]

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Political Wire:
After holding a press conference at a local gas station in Washington, D.C., House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) was photographed several blocks away getting out of the hybrid automobile he used at the event and getting back into his gasoline-powered SUV.

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As writer Anne LaMott says, there are really only two appropriate prayers: “Help me help me help me” and “Thank You Thank You Thank You.”
The Editors opt for the latter.

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Oh, Porter! Say it isn’t so!
I’ve learned from a well-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees—including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post. I’ve also been able to learn the name of the limousine service that was used to ferry […]

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Is justice. Doesn’t seem too much to ask:
WASHINGTON, April 27 — Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case, is expected to decide in the next two to three weeks whether to bring perjury charges against Karl Rove, the powerful adviser to President Bush, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.
With the […]

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Click here to listen to the entire album.

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So tonight I saw the premiere of the Al Gore documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and I got to meet the president after. I told him I was at his historic President’s Day speech in Washington and thanked him for the inspiration. (I figured I wouldn’t get much of an answer if I […]

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I don’t know if any of you have been following this, but there was something screwy with the budget bill (the House and the Senate didn’t pass the same versions) but Bush signed it, anyway.
John Conyers is filing in federal court tomorrow to ask the court to rule on it:
After consulting with some of the […]

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“We’ll buy you a couple of tanks of gas if you let us drill for oil in Alaska. Deal?” Via Dr. S:
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans advocate sending $100 rebate checks to millions of taxpayers, and a Democrat is leading the campaign for a 60-day gasoline tax holiday.
Either way, it seems no one in Congress […]

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Perfect together.

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And only George Bush can save us now.

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Wouldn’t it be refreshing if there were any honest Republicans in Congress?
Senator Pat Roberts is so determined to delay a real probe into the Bush administration’s prewar deceptions that he’s breaking the promises he makes in his own press releases. On March 14, Roberts, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, put out a press release […]

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The proposal to allow different pricing tiers of internet service passed the committee vote yesterday:
Supporters of the House telecom bill said it would make data discrimination illegal and argued that no company was levying tolls anyway. Committee Chairman Joe L. Barton (R-Texas), the main sponsor of the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006, […]

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You know they know better, but they just can’t seem to help themselves:
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall “Duke” Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites, pursuing evidence that could broaden their long-running inquiry.
Besides scrutinizing the prostitution scheme for […]

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Bob Herbert:
The libertarian Cato Institute is about to release a study titled “Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush.” It says, “Unfortunately, far from defending the Constitution, President Bush has repeatedly sought to strip out the limits the document places on federal power.” While I disagree with parts of the study, I certainly […]

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No arguing with Digby on this one. I don’t think it’ll work, either.

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