This is damn heart warming stuff. Be sure to check out the video.  update:  For the record, I don’t believe I ever nailed six 3-pointers in a row. Though I’m pretty sure I once nailed 6 Phi Sig Sigs during a Greek Week marked by keg-fueled debauchery, a killer tan, and extraordinarly elevated biorhythms. Which isn’t really the same thing, I realize…but, well, it was just begging to be said.

Nearly 25 years after the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II an Italian Parliamentary Commission has reached a conclusion that many have long held:  that the Soviet Union was behind the attempt on the Pope’s life.  From Reuters:

[update:  via Allah, ABC News, p 16.  Gov Blanco on video: levees weren’t breached; see also, Charlie in the comments.] Patterico looks closely at the LA Times‘ portrayal of Bush’s actions in light of the “confidential” Katrina Tapes:

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Jonah Goldberg, on Rod Dreher’s book, Crunch Cons:

Bob Richardson from IL emails: Re: Lynching Buckley; You write: “And this is (and has been) a crucial component of the war—one that many on the anti-war side are loathe to admit:  that their constant naysaying, though it is well within their right to voice, has objectively hurt the war effort…” As someone who always stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States, I disagree here. It is not the

From US News and World Report: Infighting is plaguing revision of the administration’s three-year-old National Strategy for Combating Terrorism. An implementation plan now under debate calls for heavy emphasis on waging an ideological war against radical Islam, promoting democracy, and stopping weapons of mass destruction. But the plan is bogged down, mired in interagency squabbling over turf and tasking, sources say. “There are just too many chefs,” says one observer.