The songs on “Living With War” are straightforward and single-minded, setting aside the allusive, enigmatic quality of Mr. Young’s rock classics, including one song sure to draw fire from the right, “Let’s Impeach the President.”

“These are all ideas we’ve heard before,” he said. “There’s nothing new in there. I just connected the dots.”

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Despite vehement denials by his attorney who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a “target” nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand jury is expected to vote on whether to indict the Deputy White House Chief of Staff sometime next week, sources knowledgeable about the probe said Friday afternoon, according to Truthout, an independent liberal news service.

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Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh turned himself in to Florida authorities about 4 p.m. Friday on a warrant for fraud to conceal information to obtain a prescription, in what prosecutors call “doctor shopping,” according to the Associated Press.

Limbaugh entered a plea of not guilty in court Friday. He was released an hour later on $3,000 bail. Under a settlement deal, Limbaugh would eventually see the charge dismissed in 18 months if he continues treatment for drug addiction.

Prosecutors began investigating Limbaugh in 2003 after a tabloid newspaper reported that his housekeeper said he had used her to illegally buy painkillers. He soon took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program, and was painted as a hypocrite by critics and the blogosphere.

Prosecutors seized Limbaugh’s records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. They contended that Limbaugh engaged in “doctor shopping,” or illegally deceived multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions.

Limbaugh acknowledged he became addicted to pain medication, blaming it on severe back pain, but never took back all the comments he made over the years to “throw away the key” for anyone who abused drugs.

According to his attorney Roy Black, who issued this press release today, said Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the state to defray the public cost of the investigation. He must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months and pay $30 per month for the cost of supervision.

Before the wires move a story on it, you can watch President George W. Bush on CNN or C-SPAN in a rare Rose Garden press conference say “the economy is on the fast track” and fake concern for renewable energy sources - as he refuses to get the troops out of Iraq and saber rattles about the coming war with Iran.

While the local newspapers and TV news stations continue to report that the economy is great and unemployment is at record low numbers, we suspect an investigation of the numbers would reveal that they are as cooked as Enron’s and HealthSouth’s books.

As for renewable energy sources, Bush’s energy plan focuses solely on opening up the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling and some incentives for ethanol and research into hydrogen.

Besides, his base could care less about the environment - they are just interested in keeping the gas cheap for their SUVs so they can drive everywhere they go.