Paul Begala: : “On October 19 I debated Bob Novak at Emory University. The topic was ‘Civil Liberties in a Time of War.’ I kicked his ass, but that’s not why I mention it. In the debate I predicted that, after the Democrats captured the Congress, Pres. Bush would provoke a Constitutional crisis by refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas….

Novak said I was crazy. It’s beginning to look like I was right.

The only reason George W. Bush would turn loose of White House Counsel Harriett Miers – who gazes upon our president with an adoration and veneration bordering on idolatry – is because he wants a war-time consigliere.” (The Huffington Post thanks to walker)

“Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper released Sunday.

The problem was the Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life and didn’t recognize it, the researcher said in a paper presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.” (Yahoo! News)