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.

The Media Mob: Oprah on Frey: "I Was Wrong" - NYO

"I apologize, I was wrong," Ms. Winfrey said, about her support of author James Frey. She also said, "I regret my phone call to Larry King," referring to her live phone call to the talk show host, in which she blamed the publishing industry for not disclaiming the memoir. "The truth matters," Ms. Winfrey said, and: "My judgement was clouded."

The Media Mob: Oprah on Frey: "I Was Wrong" - NYO

Wow--what a turnabout. The order of the universe has been thrown into chaos. Next we'll read widespread reports that cats are going for walks on leash--even in the rain--and dogs are ignoring thrown balls and their food.

Eastern Europe freezes in killer cold - Yahoo! News UK

The Left continues to pose like a Turkey in the rain, part 1,138:

Eastern Europe freezes in killer cold - Yahoo! News UK: "'You'd have to go back at least 10 years, sometimes 20 years, to find such sharp colds,' said Patrick Galois, a meteorologist with Meteo-France."

Al Gored's new book on Global Warming, accompanied by a documentary that will be screened at Sundance, comes out soon. He gave a speech on global warming during a severe cold snap in NY last year. To quote Bugs, "What a bunch of Maroons."

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.