At the Washington Post, Al Kamen is giving one to the 10 people who guess closest in what he is calling the In the Loop Pardon Scooter Contest. Kamen is even offering sort of an over-under, deeming the most likely times to be around the June 5 sentencing, or when the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit announces its decision on the …

Ana is traveling, so here’s a link to her take on the Libby verdict. (And, yes, go ahead and say it: Linking to other people’s work means I am shamelessly avoiding doing any of my own.)

As Ana mentioned earlier today, this has been a particularly bad week for an Administration that hasn’t had many good ones in the past couple years. Nine U.S. soldiers died in Iraq yesterday. Hearings on Walter Reed Hospital and the fired U.S. Attorneys have made the administration look both insensitive to wounded veterans and dismissive …

Never a good idea to predict what a jury is going to do. Guilty on four counts. Here’s our colleague Reynolds Holding’s explanation of what it means.

So, I read the fact that the jury was asking a lot of questions completely wrong: They’ve reached a decision and it will be read at noon today.

I still think he’ll get off but I’ll be happy to be wrong about that, too.

Walter Reed, the Libby trial, the war, and now, the escalating malfeasance apparent in the dismissal of eight US attorneys:

The telephone calls to Iglesias by Domenici and Wilson appear to put them in conflict with congressional ethics rules that bar contacts with federal agency officials during most active investigations.

People …

We’ve just been alerted that “The parties have been asked to meet in Court at 4:05 p.m. today Monday March 5 to review a note with questions that the Court has received from the jury.”

This is the third note that the jury has written asking for clarification of some kind — a punctiliousness that I feel bad for not finding more …

“Half-Hour News Hour” creator Joel Surnow attempts to convince National Review readers to watch his “conservative comedy” show:

Why did you decide to create this show?

Two reasons: One, I felt that in the interest of equal time there was a real need for sharp, intelligent political satire on TV from a conservative perspective to

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I just got back from the Aspen Comedy Festival, where Colbert received their “Person of the Year” award, a copyright infringement that I’m sure Time’s lawyers are pouring poring (Thank you, commenters!) over as I type. (The Aspen folks had a better coverline for their mock magazine, though: “Not You. Me.”)

Most of the times I’ve run …