From the AP : Some saw biodiesel problems coming

Another icon of the envirowacko movement toppled.

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

From the Jerusalem Post: a great fisking of the Graz, Austria vs. "the Austrian Oak" kerfuffle.

The Seattle PI headline surprisingly admits, "Secret court modified wiretap requests
Intervention may have led Bush to bypass panel"

More requests were modified and denied under President Bush's administration than any other in the FISA court's 26 year-long history.

Ethanol may go the way of the Dodo in Denver. The air is cleaner--who knew!

Thanks to the great PowerLine blog for linking to this article in which a veteran of the CIA during the Reagan Administration raises two very interesting questions for George Tenet.

Instapundit does a good job of rounding up an excellent list of those who in turn have collected current and past posts on the anniversary of 9/11/01.

Never forget.

I blame the President. CNN.com - Solar flare affects communications, disruptions possible - Sep 8, 2005: "'This flare, the fourth largest in the last 15 years, erupted just as the ... sunspot cluster was rotating onto the visible disk of the sun,' said Larry Combs, solar forecaster at the center."

"But overall, the Bush administration's funding requests for the key New Orleans flood-control projects for the past five years were slightly higher than the Clinton administration's for its past five years." From the Washington Post: Money Flowed to Questionable Projects:

A "Du-oh!" moment for the global warming doomsayers.

I can hear them now, "Stop the earth! The dirt is causing global warming!"

From MoltenThought.com via The Corner: an excellent if slightly snarky upbraiding of the media's failure to understand much other than how to pile on in the politicization of the Katrina crisis.

Update: more in the same vein here.

David Frum does a good job of defending the Administration's response to Katrina's impact in New Orleans from some of the bizarre, self-contradicting charges leveled by the looniest on the left. David Frum's Diary on National Review Online

David does an excellent job, and leaves little to add. I would like to point out this post for additional information and links to still more data, a time line of events, and legal analysis of where the responsibilities and powers of the state and local governments end and those of the Administration's begin.

Ingenious Shell finds economical Shale oil.

This is excellent news if it holds up in commercial scale testing.

From BreitBart.com: Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at Home.

This summer, we had the politics of the Supreme Court, the politics of the Iraq war, the politics of Katrina, and now a doubling of Supreme Court politics. What else?

The terrible disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina has been politicized far too early and far too much. Whether it will have an effect on the President's popularity or not is still an open question. However, his public pronouncements haven't exactly been his most uplifting and inspiring speeches, and that's coming from a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. While the gulf coastal area was declared a federal disaster area two days before Katrina reached land, and certain resources were pre-positioned, it is clear that inadequate attention was paid to the details. It almost seems as though local officials and much of the affected populace hoped for the best rather than planned for the worst.

It would seem that the overall execution of the rescue, relocation, and care giving aspects of the operation are starting to turn around and provide necessary relief and stability. There is plenty of time in coming months and weeks to assess the timeline of the disaster in terms of successes and failures. Still, Louisiana's state and local governments seem to be guilty of gross incompetence, as detailed here.

Another sign of the coming apocalypse courtesy of BREITBART.COM

"Hard" scientists become ideological poli-scientist

I can’t add anything that this post http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/08/intellectual-stalinism-of-science.html says about this story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801680_pf.html except to say, “well said”.

It's not science, it's "Scientism". Secondhand Smoke: Intellectual Stalinism of Science Establishment Revealed

I love this story. Steel from the World Trade Center used to construct the USS New York

A member of the CCSP Committee resigns over climate change politics Climate Science ? Resignation from the CCSP Committee ?Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere-Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences?

Britain's House of Lords discloses that the Kyoto Treaty is a "failed accompli". Money quote from the UK's Telegraph: "Hard though it may be for the hair-shirt brigade and the Royal Society to accept, there's an awful possibility that the Americans were right all along. The Kyoto accord looks like yesterday's approach to yesterday's conception of tomorrow's problem." Perhaps now Europe will come clean about climate change

This is astonishing. If the public can turn its attention from Tom Cruise's meltdown, the fate of a lost girl in Aruba, and a President exercising his prerogative to appoint an ambassador to a long vacant post, they will witness a life or death drama is about to unfold in space that is unequaled since Apollo 13. NASA to Conduct Spacewalk to Mend Shuttle

Ah, summer. The summertime heat stifles many people, making them lethargic and unable to work, or even think with all their faculties intact. That description applies in triplicate to the Democratic partisans and their allies in the media who continue to try to make a scandal out of the Plame Game. They've succeeded like the pistol in the movie "The Mexican" in creating a scandal that backfires on them.

Here's a link to two posts at National Review's website that summarizes what we know of Joe Wilson's tattered reputation and what has been learned after the recent set of Sunday talk shows. Keep scrolling to read the second; both are worth your time.

Hmmm. Japan unveils "robot suit" that enhances human power - Yahoo! News

Does this mean that we're closer to this?

WSJ: French Land in New Jersey; Charge Fails

The Wall Street Journal brings us the story of hapless French military aircraft forced to land in NJ. What's worse, one of the pilots apparently maxed out his credit card.

"Low on fuel and struggling in bad weather, nine French fighter jets and a radar plane couldn't return to their aircraft carrier during maneuvers with the Canadian military and landed at the Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey instead. The Federal Aviation Administration helped the jets land, and French marines and translators were sent to the airport to help the pilots, Philadelphia TV station WPVI reported. The U.S. State Department also got involved when one of the French pilots had his credit card rejected when he tried to buy fuel, the TV station reported. The FAA couldn't confirm the failed credit-card transaction."

A fascinating footnote to the Deep Throat saga that was finally concluded today. The American Spectator

What's good for General Electric isn't good for the USA. TCS: Tech Central Station - General Rent Seeker

A new debate is about to begin: militarizing space, or anticipating future threats? New York Times: Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Arms

Kofi's selective recollections during the Oil-for-Food scandal investigations seem awfully convenient, and highly questionable. My Way News: Annan Failed to Disclose Key Contacts

Winds of Change links to a story exposing pro-global warming bias at noted scientific journals Science and Nature. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you--not. Winds of Change.NET: "It's All Over for Science"

Was Einstein right when he first said what he postulated, or when he said what he postulated was wrong? We may be getting closer to the answer, or we may not...Fermilab - Press Releases

Another liberal newsman eats his words, and leaves his job amidst a cloud of self-inflicted controversy. AP: Eason Jordan resigns from CNN

Drudge reports another tale of necessity being the mother of invention. Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

The Diplomad writes, "Fight Global Warming: Turn on the A/C & Open the Windows" and in doing so provides as fine a fisking on the muddle-headed thinking that is evident in "the independent report [that] was made by the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Center for American Progress in the United States and the Australia Institute" on global warming as I've seen in a long time.

The New York Post Online Edition comments on the glacial pace of government action even in the face of crisis. A person is granted citizenship 3 1/2 years after his death during 9/11. Many of the obvious steps to increase government data quality and hence awareness of threats have yet to be taken.

We have lost one of the greats. He went out the way everyone dreams of going, on top, and leaving them begging for more.

There's no one like him.

Godspeed, Johnny.

Johnny Carson, 30-year king of late night TV, dead at 79

"The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow -- and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already."

What a shock.

Why, if there was plenty of time to act, the pace of grant approvals to these bilious idiots for new studies would slow down. The gullible might take time to think about dire predictions of global warming in light of blizzard conditions across the US--hey, don't believe your eyes, believe the doomsayers!

What a bunch of malarkey. The UK Independent: "Countdown to global catastrophe"

On this day of the President's inauguration, nothing can be said, or will be said, better than this.

Both Drudge and InstaPundit link to this excellent story by the WaPo's Howard Fineman about the rise and fall of the Mainstream Media in its recent guise as a political party and king maker. MSNBC - The 'Media Party' is over