Sounds like Bush is giving a classic speech – he’d almost have to since it started out with Cindy Sheehan being led away in irons. But check this out:

Yet there is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy.

Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I won’t bore you with my mundane-but-picture-perfect memories of that day and instead refrer you to psychiatric blogger Dr. Sanity, who was the assigned crew physician for that flight.

In particular, don’t miss this linked recollection of meeting Ronald Reagan at the memorial service. I now have an entirely new level of respect for the man.

Read this story. Notice the lack of party affiliations for anyone involved. Now that you’ve guessed who’s who, use your favorite search engine to score yourself.

Ted Kennedy came completely unraveled yesterday after his and Kerry’s filibuster attempt died by a large margin (even the infamous Gang of 14 voted to kill it).

ETA: Dan Riehl has synced Ted’s video to Blutarsky’s big speech from Animal House. Brilliant.

Mark Steyn on the Author who dared Lie to Mother Winfrey.

Lileks isn’t big on the whole transgender rights thing.

Chris Muir has more DNC hijinx.

Cox & Forkum go dictator-tweaking.

Zombie’s got a pretty comprehensive set of artwork depicting Mohammed.

Tanker, posting @ Ace’s, sure thinks so.

Jeff’s unimpressed with the latest bizzare assertation from the Guardian.

Ask the Cats™ about Bob Woodruff getting injured by a roadside bomb. (Incidentally, this is why the terrorists are losing. They keep targeting their natural allies, like influential imams and news reporters).

Bush’s approval rating is back above 50% after intensive TV exposure for Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Glenn says that’s not a coincidence.

Well, actually you just supply subtitled dialogue. Anyway, Tim Blair’s got the hookup. (Warning: the actual site with the movies takes a while to load).

Not the term I’d use, but Chris Muir is on the jazz anyway.

Cox & Forkum on the Google.cn censorship.

(Hey, it wasn’t even that hard to make it rhyme!). Anyway, the Israelis have cut off regular tax payments to the “PA”. So clearly somebody not stupid’s in charge there even with Sharon still in a coma.

The ACLU’s all weepy because we’re purportedly kidnapping the wives of terrorists in order to capture them. Now, I don’t see how this works in the first place. Most of these terrorists seemingly have wives for show and camels for go (if you know what I mean), but it seems the charges are probably false anyway. Misha’s got much, much more.

Want to help the Danes and have a great lunch? It’s entirely possible.

fidel castro got pwned by the US Embassy – they put up a news ticker (similar to the one outside of Fox’s studio in Manhattan) and flashed ‘subversive’ messages while he was standing nearby giving a speech.

Mark Steyn ties Joel Stein to the Pallie elections.

Chris Muir (go to the January 29th 2006 cartoon if it’s not already there) has an impossible Al Gore scenario. I mean, him moving that fast?

The Religion of Peace™ remains annoyed in Denmark, and don’t understand why the Danes aren’t just bending over like other Europeans. Misha explains the facts of life.

Mother Shaheed (literally) loves the dictators.

Here’s actual footage of the recent special-effects accident on the set of ABC’s soap All My Children which injured 4.