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.