Evidently, I'm an Audi TT! Not what I'd hoped for, but it'll do while I'm saving for that M6...

You're not the fastest, nor the most nimble, but you're cute and you have style. You're not intensely competitive, but when you pass by, everyone turns to look.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Returning Abramoff cash 'taints' tribes, Murray says

Instapundit said it best, "You can't make this stuff up." Returning Abramoff cash 'taints' tribes, Murray says

Reason online covers a forthcoming (1/20/06) special on ABC TV's 20/20 that reports on the shocking state of education in the USA, compared to, not Japan, but...BelgiumStupid in America: Why your kids are probably dumber than Belgians

Like most of what he writes, Fred has some intelligent thougts regarding intelligent design.

There he goes again. Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard actually bothers to do some reporting on what Saddam was actually doing before the war. Only about 2.5% of Saddam's trove (millions) of documents that were captured during the war have been translated, and probably an even lower percentage have been read and reported on by the press. What sobering truths remain to be found? If only the government actually cared about getting the truth about Saddam out "in Saddam's own words". Saddam's Terror Training Camps

Without a doubt, this is one of the best blonde jokes ever. Hat tip: Transterrestrial Musings and GeekPress

A tremendously effective repudiation of the moral equivalence and ignorance of history shown in "Munich" RealClearPolitics: Munich Stands for Appeasement by Kate Wright

The Wall Street Journal takes the junior Senator from WA out to the woodshed and administers a bit of education in the free market. OpinionJournal: It's Your Money

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.