David Harsany at the DenverPost.com calls for us to "Chill out over global warming"--quite rightly, according to Colorado State University's Bill Gray and Roger Pielke Sr. at the University of Colorado.

From Mr. Harsany's column, "Gray is perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert. His Tropical Storm Forecast sets the standard. Yet, his criticism of the global warming 'hoax' makes him an outcast."

Why is the politicization of science so unashamedly tolerated by the left of its enviro-wackos? Is the temptation to embrace self-hate so appealing that it extends to the success of the industrial world and the educational establishment that it seems bent on radicalizing if not destroying? The global warming debate is far from over, and it is far too soon to prescribe solutions to a problem that is simply not well understood.

The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com section runs an editorial by "Krazy Kofi" Annan who claims that illegal immigration is a form of "migration". That's it--we're not being invaded by people who have no legal right to be here; we're just hosting innocuous migrants, like a flock of birds.

Every nation-state since the Treaty of Westphalia has retained the right to defend its borders and set rules on citizenship for those who would wish to settle permanently. No thinking person can possibly confuse the waves of uneducated, unskilled immigrants--and who knows how many "OTMs"--with a harmless flock of birds. Americans are awakening to the real invasion, not a migration, that is underway in America. Mr. Annan is right to say that America has always been a refuge for those fleeing oppression or who wish to bring their skills and abilities to an entrepreneurial society that doesn't prohibit advancement like some in Europe, Asia and Africa. We're tired of being taken for a free ride, though, by those who would enter without permission.

Think of the current wave of "America for Americans" as the second coming of "welfare reform" and you'll be closer to understanding the roots of the movement.

The Seattle Public School District unintentionally makes the best argument ever put forward in favor of school choice Planning ahead is considered racist?

The first few sentences of the column, by Andrew J. Coulson, are astonishing:

"Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids' education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you're a racist."

"According to the district's official Web site, 'having a future time orientation' (academese for having long-term goals) is among the 'aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color.'"

Unbelievable. Read the whole thing, then start saving your money to send your children to private school or to home school them.

The Christian Science Monitor publishes an intriguinging proposal by Philip Gold calling for an independent agency to be created that would decide on the sites that could be explored for oil in the domestic U.S. and then, as in the case of the process outlined in the Base Closure and Realignment Act, allow Congress to approve all selected sites or disapprove all sites, without amendment. Consider responsible drilling on US soil

NW News publishes an editorial by Toby Nixon Brightwater stinks, and it's not the sewage you're smelling

I met Toby when I was the AppleTalk Evangelist at Apple from '87 to '90. I was pleased to find that he had preceeded me to the Northwest when I arrived at Microsoft in '94. He's still there, splitting time on his work on networking and communications with his responsibilities as the Republican representative for the 45th Legislative District, which includes my new home town. I look forward to voting for him again.

If only there were video and audio of this indecipherable blabber Nancy Pelosi Speaks - The New Editor

"The microphone is on the table" might become as famous for its strange context as "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

Pete du Pont offers a well reasoned argument against global warming histeria in his monthly column for the WSJ OpinionJournal - Outside the Box

I haven't heard any discussion of a point that ocurred to me after reading this article. If man is such an important cause of global warming, and if industrial activity must be curtailed in order to bring the threat down, then what has happened during periods of lower industrial activity--major recessions, war, etc.?

The Wall Street Journal prints a piece today by Peter Wehner, deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives. It's a must read for anyone who is repeatedly drawn back into debate over the rationale for the Iraq war. OpinionJournal - Featured Article

All sorts of grandiose tributes expressed in architecture to a truly failed system. Unrealised Moscow

H/T Digg

Damninteresing.com covers exciting developments that portend advances in stem cell research without the ethical dilemmas involved in the use of embryos: extraction of stem cells from menstrual blood and human spermatogonial cells (from testicular tissue) in the post, New Sources for Stem Cells

Speaking for myself, I favor the former.

Ann Althouse points to a fun story about the power that unionized California janitors have to prevent graduates from being further indoctrinated by Democratic party apparachniks My Way News - Dean Cancels Berkeley Graduation Speech

If this doesn't make one skeptical of government-run "free" health care, nothing will. In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves - New York Times

The reviews for "United 93" keep coming in. Instapundit.com - excerpts a few reviewers whose impressions I share. I wholeheartedly recommend the film to every adult American of any political stripe. I was profoundly affected by the experience of watching the movie, and reminded of my feelings on that day of infamy.

The Angry Left attacks one of the blogosphere's best, causing many, many supporters to rally to her side.

Click the picture of this intelligent, articulate woman to read more about it.

My old friend Tom Evslin has a great blog. His post on global warming is just like him: thoughtful, practical and based on facts, not fancy. Fractals of Change: Global Warming ? Too Important for Junk Science

Another story not covered by the main stream media Kyoto: An Open Letter to the European Governments and the European Commission The Brussels Journal

A great quote from the article, “If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary.”

The Captain's Quarters blog calls it "case closed" on the question of Saddam's links to terrorism and attacks against the US prior to 9/11.

ABC News: Did Russian Ambassador Give Saddam the U.S. War Plan?

Despite ABC's disclaimers, these documents certainly make the President's case for war far stronger. ABC News: Did Russian Ambassador Give Saddam the U.S. War Plan?

John D Barrow, a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, writes in the UK's telegraph:

"In all the science we pursue we are used to seeing progress. Our first attempts to grasp the laws of nature are often incomplete. So, in our religious conceptions of the Universe, we also use approximations and analogies to have some grasp of ultimate things. They are not the whole truth but this does not stop them being a part of the truth: a shadow that is cast in a limiting situation of some simplicity."

"Our scientific picture of the Universe has revealed how blinkered and conservative our outlook has often been, how self-serving our interim picture, how mundane our expectations, and how parochial our attempts to find or deny the links between scientific and religious approaches to the nature of the Universe."

As the man says, read the whole thing. Telegraph Opinion Astronomy illuminates the glory of God

Many say that this is the greatest blog post ever: Tom McMahon: What I Have Learned In 15 Years

I think that it is one of the greatest pieces of real advice ever published. Anywhere.