Rounding Up

“Yesterday, the Financial Times reported that energy “will be a central theme of President George W. Bush’s state of the union speech this month”…In every one of his previous State of the Union addresses, Bush has promised to push America towards energy independence.”

“If we surge and it doesn’t work, it’s hard to imagine what we do after that.” — Frederick Kagan, the “intellectual architect” of the Iraq escalation.”

kmf at BlueNC reports that the state’s Land and Water Conservation Study Commission having a public meeting tomorrow night at AB-Tech 7pm Laurel Building, Ferguson Auditorium (340 Victoria Rd., Asheville).

The Olbermann Sacrifice Soliloquy.

Monkeyfister relays a strange and poignant story about U.S. soldiers in Iraq trying to make vegetables grow.

The normally thoughtful Tigerhawk gives us a taste of what the right-wing bloggers are going to do – mischaracterize the groundswell of support for leaving Iraq by focusing only on those who want to defund the operation altogether. And earlier he made the argument that since history often judges unpopular Presidents well, we ought not jump to any conclusions about George W. Bush.

“John Negroponte is resigning as Director of National Intelligence and becoming Deputy Secretary of State.”