So far, nothing Jason Leopold said about the Rove indictment has turned out to be true.
But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

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Steve Clemons says his sources rebut Bobby Ray Inman’s claim that Dick Armitage will be indicted. On the contrary, they tell him - Armitage has been fully cooperative with the grand jury and is expected to testify against Rove if he’s indicted.

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Jon Stewart (who, unlike the real media, actually reads books) sticks it to Ramesh Ponnuru over his fine tome from that credible firm of Regnery Publishing.

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Bubble Boy explains it all to David Gregory in a one-on-one interview.
And by the way, remember how when Bush first ran, he made such a big deal about how he doesn’t read polls? Why doesn’t someone ask him about that now?

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Talk about crazy. They believe the U.S. will go to war with Iran for Israel’s sake, and so they decide to wave this red cape in front of the bull?
Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured [...]

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Political Wire:
One of the biggest threats to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s re-election may be a book, The Great Deluge, by historian Douglas Brinkley.
“Rarely has a work of history figured so prominently in a mayoral election here or anywhere else,” the Washington Post reports. The book “covers a week of the Hurricane Katrina debacle [...]

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I’m not sure exactly why the New York Times newspaper is so determined to keep the Democrats in their place, but they certainly work hard at it, don’t they?
They start with this headline: “Senators Left Out of Loop Make Their Pique Known”.
“Pique.” Something diminishing, trivial. So what is this hissy fit about, exactly?
Oh, just a [...]

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Open letter to Al Gore on Daily Kos:
We are in desperate need of an individual with experience and knowledge in both real life and the fantasy land of the capital. This person must know all branches of government, know how to play the political games within it, and have the practical knowledge of where [...]

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I swear, the next time someone asks me, “Why doesn’t the media print the good news from Iraq?”, I think my head will explode. Michael Schwartz via Altercation:
Media coverage of the Iraq War has generally portrayed the current quagmire as the result of an American failure to achieve a set of otherwise admirable goals: suppressing [...]

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When then-Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to impose this North Korea policy, BushCo and friends called him an “appeaser.”
That was different. Their poll numbers are a lot lower now.

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Kinsley sums up exactly what I find so repellent about John McCain, media darling:
All successful politicians must have at least some talent for telling lies about what’s in their hearts and convincing people that it is the truth. But Sen. John McCain has a unique genius for telling the truth from his heart and making [...]

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MoveOn is working to raise the profile of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Gore documentary about global warming, to persuade the media that people really do care about this issue. They want people to pledge to attend.
The picture’s great, really. You won’t be bored, I promise. Take the pledge and take everyone you know to see [...]

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Paul Begala apologizes for his condescending comments about DNC field organizers, and explains he’s worried Dems don’t have enough cash to fight back against the Republican slime machine.
I don’t think he realizes how many people were simply disgusted with the DNC and donated to state parties - or directly to campaigns - instead. And the [...]

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Oh look, it’s finally occurred to the Republicans that they’re in trouble:
WASHINGTON, May 18 — In an attempt to revoke billions of dollars worth of government incentives to oil and gas producers, the House approved a measure on Thursday that would order the government to renegotiate more than 1,000 leases with companies that drill in [...]

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U.N. says Gitmo and secret detention facilities are a violation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture and must be shut down.

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From Hotline on Call:
We very rarely get “ALERTS” from the calm, composed folks at Electionline.org, so our heart pumped a bit when this crossed our inbox.
An amendment to the immigration bill being debated in the U.S. Senate would make it mandatory for all voters to present photo identification before casting ballots in a federal election [...]

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Top Ten Signs The Government Is Spying On You
10. Post office wall has several photos of you sleeping
9. Your houseplant occasionally sneezes
8. Domino’s keeps delivering to unmarked van parked across the street
7. Birthday card from your mom has several words blacked out
6. You get nominated for “Outstanding Lead Performance in an NSA Surveillance Video”
5. Your [...]

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I’ve been deluged with comment spam today and as a result, I’ve made it a little harder to leave comments. Please be patient if your comment doesn’t appear right away.

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Christy Hardin Smith:
I just got off a phone conference call that the ACLU arranged with Bruce Fein regarding the Hayden nomination for DCI and the implications that the hearings might have for the illegal domestic wiretapping without a warrant in which the NSA has been engaged.
One of the things that Bruce Fein said struck me, [...]

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Franklin Foer in the New Republic:
I hope this doesn’t sound too Arianna-like. But last night, I went to a screening of the Al Gore movie. And I found myself walking out in a strange mood. I had just seen a movie featuring a politician … and there wasn’t a trace of snark or cynicism coursing [...]

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Go look at the new map from My DD.

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AmericaBLOG:
I’d read yesterday on another blog (can’t find the link now), and just had it confirmed by a second source today, that’s there’s a memo out there from the Bush administration, an “Executive Memorandum” dated May 5th of
this year, that grants the phone companies participating in the NSA domestic spying scandal the right to publicly [...]

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Love those self-policing free markets:
Morning Edition, May 18, 2006 · New data obtained by NPR show that patients who took Vioxx even for short periods were at higher risk of heart problems and strokes. An estimated 20 million Americans took the painkiller before Merck & Co. stopped selling it in 2004.

I remember telling my ex [...]

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To ignore the 4th Amendment. That’s what Hayden just told Feinstein at his confirmation hearing.
It’s kind of like the floating strike zone… except it’s our civil liberties at stake, not a ball game.
Steve Soto has lots more.
UPDATE: Read this, too.

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Just click it.

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The National Journal calls this “the nastiest piece of direct mail we’ve ever seen.”
Naturally, it’s from a Republican.

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I think my head may explode…

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