Thomas Sowell in the National Review: From my ivory tower, things look so bad that it may be time for a military coup in the United States.

In today’s episode of TPMtv, why President Bush can’t fire Alberto Gonzales …

Update: For a summary of today’s episode, click here.

New US Attorney Purge revelations just out at TPMmuckraker.com.

The House Judiciary Committee has just released its correspondence with the fired US Attorneys. And we’ve got the documents and new revelations they contain. First up, Deputy AG McNulty told the Senat Judiciary Committee that Nevada USA Daniel Bogden had been let go for “performance related” reasons. But McNulty apparently told Bogden just the opposite in a phone call in December.

More revelations coming shortly.

Here’s a first look at a new ad being aired by John Edwards demanding that Congress continue standing up to the White House on Iraq. It’s a good one.

Fired U.S. Attorney says the Justice Department offered him a “quid pro quo”: stay silent about your firing and we will too.

DOJ official to fired US Attorney Bud Cummins: circumventing the senate was the “White House plan.”

Oh surprise, surprise. After Carol Lam was fired last December, she had a conversation with DOJ official Michael Elston. When Lam asked to be able to stay on briefly to oversee certain key cases. Elston told her she had to be gone in “weeks, not months” and that the order for her firing was “coming from the very highest levels of the government.”

‘Very highest levels of the government’. I don’t think Monica Goodling or Kyle Sampson count in that category, do they?

Also of interest, given the DOJ’s cover story for Lam’s firing, Lam called Deputy AG McNulty and asked why she was being fired. According to Lam: “He responded that he wanted some time to think about how to answer that question because he didn’t want to give me an answer ‘that would lead’ me down the wrong route. He added that he knew I had personally taken on a long trial and he had great respect for me. Mr. McNulty never responded to my question.”

I guess no one had clued McNulty in on the ‘immigration enforcement’ talking points.

Don’t miss it: Rudy Giuliani’s two minute rant about … ferrets. Yes, Ferrets. Quoted in full.

Senate subpoenas Rove emails on US Attorney Purge.

Only Republicans need apply.

The Justice Department inspector general is investigating whether Monica Goodling was considering political affiliation when hiring entry-level assistant U.S. attorneys across the country.