FORT HOOD — A LONE GUNMAN? “The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.” Stay tuned: Nobody really knows what happened yet.

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has a roundup.

Plus, Drudge photo error. It’s down now.

ANOTHER UPDATE: How did he shoot so many people? Ironically, stateside military bases are virtual gun-free zones, where most guns are kept locked up and only a few are allowed to be armed. LaShawn Barber has a photo. And reader David Sauls notes that according to Vitals.com he’s a graduate of Damascus University. And his patient-ratings are lousy, especially for courtesy and bedside manner . . . Unless there’s another guy by the same name associated with Walter Reed, anyway.

ANOTHER UPDATE: And, weirdly, there does seem to be another guy with the same name, according to reader D.A. Rogers: “Apparently, Vitals.com got two guys with identical names confused.” Go figure. Well, stay tuned and this story will sort itself out.

MORE: Lots of people with that name.

DANIEL HENNINGER: The Permanent Tea Party. “What was learned Tuesday is that the American voter is absolutely, totally, unremittingly disgusted with both political parties. More than anything, the American voter is desperate for political leadership.”

HOUSECALL: Video from today’s anti-Pelosicare march in Washington.

ETHICS AND HEATH SHULER: House panel clears Shuler in TVA land deal probe.

DON SURBER: Is the Village Voice Trolling Me? Well, that’s pretty much Roy’s job description. . . .

UPDATE: RELATED: ERIC BOEHLERT DOESN’T JUST PLAY DUMB. In criticizing my Wall Street Journal piece he quotes a bit on White house criticism of Fox News, but leaves out this part:

Bert Gall and Robert Frommer of the Institute for Justice have made a compelling case that the Obama administration’s word choice is quite significant. They think that by branding Fox as something other than a “legitimate news organization,” the White House is actually setting up a more brutal attack using campaign finance laws. News media organizations are exempt from campaign-finance laws’ speech regulations. But if Fox is not a “legitimate news organization,” then federal election authorities might be able to argue that its political speech can be regulated like that of any other non-news corporation.

The implications would be far-reaching. Messrs. Gall and Frommer write on PajamasMedia.com: “Of course, if the media’s speech becomes illegitimate—and thus subject to restriction—when it turns critical, then the same is true for everyone else, including ordinary citizens.” Imagine if the administration applied disclosure laws not just to Fox, but to groups like the tea-party protestors. Faced with this restrictive bureaucracy, such groups would probably be paralyzed.

Contrary to Boehlert’s misleading suggestion that this is just what we saw under the Bush Administration, it’s not. And, in fact, although the Bush Administration didn’t get along with the press, it didn’t evince the Obama Administration’s thin-skinned thuggishness, which of course has also applied to scientists and university administrators. Whatever Soros pays these guys, it’s more than they’re worth. But to be fair to Boehlert, he was shrill even before he signed on as a flack for Media Matters, and even when I agreed with him. I just hope his attack produced more than Media Matters’ trademark 14 hits. Oh, well, I’m sure I’m sending him a lot more traffic than that, so he can count his own trolling efforts a success . . . .

OFFICE GOSSIP strategies.

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MASS SHOOTING at Fort Hood. More here. Still ongoing, apparently.

UPDATE: A blog post from the scene.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More at the Mudville Gazette. Note that early reports are usually wrong, but it sounds quite bad, and likely to have some sort of terror connection. But stay tuned.

MORE: SayUncle: “FBI guy on Fox says no terrorist nexus. Probably means interview with guy in custody indicates it’s a civilian, contractor, or military guy. Preliminary reports are usually wrong. So, take the above with a grain of salt.”

FLUNKING THE CONSTITUTIONAL TEST: “When asked by CNSNews.com what specific part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to mandate that individuals must purchase health insurance, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) pointed to the part of the Constitution that he says authorizes the federal government ‘to provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country.’ In fact, the word ‘health’ appears nowhere in the Constitution.” Hey, these clowns don’t read the bills they vote on, so why expect them to have read the Constitution?

UPDATE: Maybe he’s taking his cues from Robert Gibbs.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Related thoughts from Gene Healy.

FOR SALE, CHEAP. But not cheap enough. “I hope the seller is willing to negotiate, because $1,950 seems wildly optimistic, considering that the car is probably a four-wheeled financial black hole. . . . Even if you restored it to better condition than the day it left Windsor, Ontario, it would still be a soft, mushy, oversized, underpowered ‘personal luxury’ car of a type they thankfully don’t make any more.”

POLITICO: Tea Parties Descend On Capitol Hill.

MIKE FLYNN connects the dots.

THREE YEARS IN PRISON for having sex with a horse. But, you know, it was somebody else’s horse.

WILL WE SEE MORE THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES? Discussing this over at The Hill.

JOURNALISTS WHO DON’T AGREE AREN’T “REAL JOURNALISTS,” and apparently scientists who disagree aren’t “real” scientists:

In the blame game, the Obama administration isn’t about to stop with Fox News. Instead, it’s moving on to lowly scientists.

Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stated that any scientific debate about the magnitude of global warming is unscrupulous, decrying “those who . . . make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.”

Then, the president talked tough, saying, “We’ll just have to deal with those people,” language familiar to anyone who knows the vagaries of Chicago politics.

Maybe he should audit their taxes. The thuggishness continues. Hope and change!

UPDATE: C.J. Burch says there’s a solution for thuggishness.

HEALING BURNS with spray-on skin cells. Faster, please.

THOUGHT ON THE AI TAKEOVER, from J. Storrs Hall. Plus, Robo Habilis?

AT THE CAPITOL: 10,000 Rally Against ObamaCare. Here’s a pic:

UPDATE: Another pic from reader Dan Anderson.

Also, Gateway Pundit has a roundup.

JOHN FUND: The Madness of Queen Nancy.

A LOOK AT SOME Automotive X-Prize contenders.

GRAND ROUNDS is up!

IN THE MAIL: From Steve Forbes, How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today’s Economy.

STEPHEN GREEN, SCOTT OTT, DANA LOESCH: Left Behind: How Dems’ Election Losses Impact the 2010 Race.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN? CBO: Republican health plan would reduce premiums, cut deficit.

KEITH HENNESSEY: The Inherited Deficits Fallacy.