I was just looking at the big weather map London Yank linked to in the current recommended diary 5 Biggest Atlantic Storms of the 21st century and noticed a storm system over where I used to live in Winona, MN, about 120 miles south of the Twin Cities along the Mississippi River. If you have a high speed connection, check this out here.

Rob Dreher is a Dallas Morning News columnist and former senior editor at the National Review.  In yesterday’s paper he wrote an amazing turn aroundcolumn about the failure of the Bush Administration in the Iraq war.  Now, after years of praising the administration he realizes what a horrible mistake the war truly is.