Rove testified he learned CIA agent’s name from Novak

The person [who leaked this] works in the legal profession and spoke only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, told The Associated Press that Rove testified last year that he remembers specifically being told by columnist Robert…

"No special interests" Arnold?

Gov. Schwarzenegger, who spends inordinate amounts of time bleating about he’s not beholden to special interests, is being paid millions by a special interest, a body building magazine company. Asked if the governor had any other outside deals, Stutzman said…

From today’s Crime Blotter, er, "Business Section"

Buzz-cut Bernie blubbers as judgment day comes A Crime So Large It Changed the Law Sentence’s message: Crime doesn’t payCEO of North America’s largest equipment renter mum on SEC investigationBank of America agrees to refunds for elderly investorsCompany made $600…

Make Global Warming History

From The East African It is puzzling that there is no mass movement on environmental degradation in the West similar to the whole “Make Poverty History” thing.  The rich world is said to emit half of the planet’s carbon dioxide…

The non-denial denial

Rove told reporter of Plame’s role but didn’t name her, attorney says. That is technically true, he identified her as the wife of Charles Wilson, and not by her name. This ploy was known in the Nixon days as the…

Arnold oinking at the money trough

Schwarzenegger paid 8 mil in conflict of interest Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher…

Why the Minutemen will never win

To quote that great philospher Daffy Duck, it’s “because I’m a greedy little duck.” Corporate America wants to sell undocumented immigrants cars and mortgages and insurance, etc. Embracing IllegalsCompanies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants.  At…

Warning warning, danger danger

Stealing WiFi Access. Interesting: Police have arrested a man for using someone else’s wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Near as I can tell, there was no other criminal activity involved.…