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I really think an educated, highly motivated, courageous and bilingual Iraqi refugee and expatriate is in a much better position to weigh the relative merits of our brutal nonsensical invasion and occupation of Iraq than some well fed entitled Republican with a highly dubious and self serving theory about the inherent good will of Americans in general ("Iraqi student should send Karl Rove a thank you note," Readers respond, Feb. 23). That the letter writer claims the student should thank Karl Rove for his good fortune is like thanking Wall Street Ponzi schemes for one's unemployment.

A motorcade of police vehicles escorting wounded military service members from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to New York City will cause roving lane closures on multiple area highways Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police. The motorcade will begin at Walter Reed in Bethesda at 7 a.m. and is expected to impact morning commutes in the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan area, police said. The motorcade will travel northbound along Interstate 495 and Interstate 95. krector@baltsun.com twitter.com/rectorsun

Human events are intriguing. So many points of view of the same event demand tolerance if we are going to get along at all. Our guest Ahmed at Goucher College is an emotional reminder of this dilemma of life (" Iraqi student's education goes far beyond Goucher," Feb. 21). I can not imagine the tragedies the people of Iraq have endured since the U.S. led invasion of 2003. Confronting Karl Rove had to be a critical moment of Ahmed's life. In so doing, he joined the long American tradition of protesting war. We the people have always spoke out against war, dating back to the late 1700s during the quasi-war with France during President John Adams' administration.

There was a time when the lines between the practices of politics and journalism were clear-cut. Professional politicians did their thing, which was getting elected and getting others elected. Professional journalists did theirs, writing and telling how the politicians did what they did. Seldom did the two meet in public opinion forums Today, political operatives are regular commentators and analysts on radio, television and the Internet, and journalists of all political persuasions run for public office, sometimes getting elected.

It's pundit time, again. The 2010-11 Baltimore Speaker Series line-up announced Tuesday morning features a plethora of political heavyweights, capped by a sparring match between Republican Karl Rove and Democrat Howard Dean. The April 26 event will pit Rove, deputy chief of staff for former president George W. Bush, against Dean, the former Vermont governor and candidate for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. The two will make individual presentations about their experience in politics, and then respond to each other's presentation.

National Democrats said yesterday that Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele should cancel a fund-raising event featuring White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove because of Rove's possible involvement in the leak of the name of a CIA officer. Steele is exploring a bid for U.S. Senate, and a July 26 event in Washington - featuring Rove and hosted by Sen. Elizabeth Dole and the National Republican Senatorial Committee - is expected to be one of his first large-scale money-raising functions. Rove has been under fire in recent days as the possible source who leaked information that Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, was a Central Intelligence Agency agent.

Republican strategist Karl Rove's political foes have given him many nicknames, including Darth Vader, the Antichrist and several unfit for print in a family newspaper. "The Architect" is what President Bush called him the morning after they won re-election. That should make him an excellent profile subject. And the Frontline episode "The Architect" is fascinating, but ultimately disappointing. It tells us what Rove has accomplished and what he would like to do. But who Rove is and why he is so devoted to conservatism is underexamined.

WASHINGTON -- Presidential adviser Karl Rove was called again before a federal grand jury yesterday, a surprise appearance signaling that a perjury and obstruction investigation into his role in a CIA leak case remains alive. As the White House was introducing a new press spokesman in an attempt to put a new face on a troubled administration, Rove testified for three hours before the grand jury at the U.S. courthouse in Washington. A special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, is investigating whether Rove lied to investigators in connection with the summer 2003 disclosure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

WASHINGTON - A top assistant to White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove appeared last week before the federal grand jury investigating possible criminal wrongdoing by the Bush administration in the exposing of a CIA operative, a person familiar with the case said yesterday. The interest in Susan Ralston, Rove's longtime executive assistant, was unexplained, but it comes as special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has been focusing on differences in witness statements made to federal agents and the grand jury investigating who revealed the identity of Valerie Plame.

WASHINGTON - A spy outed. A reporter jailed. And now, a White House operative fingered. Democrats couldn't have spun a more intriguing conspiracy theory around Karl Rove, President Bush's political guru and top adviser, if they'd tried. As Rove emerges as a central figure in an ever-more-provocative case involving the unmasking of a CIA agent, Democrats and liberal groups are seizing on the story as proof of their more sweeping charge that Bush has put partisan loyalty and political advantage ahead of national security.

While much is being made of Karl Rove's post-election return to the air this week on Fox, I don't think that's really the news that matters these days at Rupert Murdoch's channel. Reflecting in a way the very post-election GOP malaise that they discussed, both Bill O'Reilly and Rove seemed off their games Wednesday night on "The O'Reilly Factor. " Two of the most self-confident blowhards in American media and political life seemed less confident, less energized, less animated than I have ever seen either when it comes to saying bad things about President Obama.

It was fairly obvious by about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday that most cable and network analysts thought President Obama was going to be re-elected. But they didn't have the data to make the call until 11:17. When that happened at NBC News and CNN, viewers were offered as clear a snapshot as I have seen of the difference between a news gathering operation like CNN and an ideologically driven enterprise like MSNBC. "We've got a really major projection to make right now," CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said.

In a Chrysler advertisement aired during halftime of Sunday's Super Bowl, actor and director Clint Eastwood says, "I've seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of tough downturns in my life, times when we didn't understand each other. It seems we've lost our heart at times, and the fog of discord, division and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead. But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right and acted as one. " To judge from the reaction he got, we haven't achieved that last stage just yet. Mr. Eastwood was pilloried the next morning by Republican political strategist and Fox News commentator Karl Rove, among others, as a tool of President Barack Obama's re-election strategy.

Karl Rove spoke at the Johns Hopkins University last week. Mr. Rove delivered the final lecture for the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium, which is entirely student run and sponsored by the university. I am a co-chair of this organization. Unsurprisingly, there was a considerable amount of protest. Karl Rove comes to speak, people are going to dissent. I fully understand. He is a controversial public figure. I have been told that I should be "ashamed" of myself for inviting Mr. Rove to campus.

About 15 protesters were asked to leave a speech by Karl Rove at Johns Hopkins University after staging "organized disruption," a university official said. Some protesters were forcibly removed from the auditorium, said spokeswoman Tracey A. Reeves. The protesters were not believed to be Hopkins students, she said. They were affiliated with the Baltimore offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Shortly after 10 p.m. the group, which goes by the name Occupy Baltimore, shared via Twitter a six-minute YouTube video of the incident.

It's after 1:30 a.m. on a recent Friday night, and Baltimore's juvenile curfew center is buzzing. One by one or together in groups, children who are out beyond the midnight weekend curfew are being brought in by police. In a side room where records are checked, the youngest strike up a conversation. "How you get caught?" the 10-year-old boy asks. "I walked to the store," the shy 8-year-old seated to his left says. "As soon as I got out, police said 'Come here.' " Asked by a reporter if he is scared to be walking around his East Baltimore neighborhood so late at night, the 8-year-old, who says his name is Khalil, shakes his head no. "There's a lot of kids out," he replies.

WASHINGTON - A new partisan firestorm erupted yesterday as Democrats assailed President Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, for criticizing liberals for what he deemed their tepid response to the Sept. 11 attacks. The White House said it would not heed Democratic demands for an apology from Rove or a presidential condemnation of the adviser's remarks, and it rejected Democratic charges that Rove's words amounted to a Bush administration attempt to exploit the war on terrorism for political gain.

WASHINGTON -- Amid rising anxiety in Republican circles, presidential adviser Karl Rove made a fourth appearance yesterday before a federal grand jury investigating the CIA leak case as prosecutors neared a decision on whether to charge Rove or anyone else. One of President Bush's oldest and most trusted advisers, Rove spent more than four hours behind closed doors in the federal courthouse in what amounted to a final attempt by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to clarify his role in the politically charged affair.

It's pundit time, again. The 2010-11 Baltimore Speaker Series line-up announced Tuesday morning features a plethora of political heavyweights, capped by a sparring match between Republican Karl Rove and Democrat Howard Dean. The April 26 event will pit Rove, deputy chief of staff for former president George W. Bush, against Dean, the former Vermont governor and candidate for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. The two will make individual presentations about their experience in politics, and then respond to each other's presentation.

I really think an educated, highly motivated, courageous and bilingual Iraqi refugee and expatriate is in a much better position to weigh the relative merits of our brutal nonsensical invasion and occupation of Iraq than some well fed entitled Republican with a highly dubious and self serving theory about the inherent good will of Americans in general ("Iraqi student should send Karl Rove a thank you note," Readers respond, Feb. 23). That the letter writer claims the student should thank Karl Rove for his good fortune is like thanking Wall Street Ponzi schemes for one's unemployment.