With the news that Maurice Clemmons, the coward who gunned down four police officers at a Washington state coffee shop, was paroled by then-Arkansas governor Huckabee over the protests of prosecutors nine years ago.

It’s not the most important part of this tragedy, but it’s an interesting footnote—particularly because I saw Huckabee on Fox yesterday morning (JetBlue TV) talking about whether he’d run for president in 2012. I think you can count that out.