Neal Pollack sums it up Nicely From the recently returned, very missed blogger comes a great, slyly hilarious post, with a telling point in an early paragraph. We’re now aware that President Bush, in advance of September 11, knew that several members of Al Queda had lived in or traveled to the United States for years, that Osama bin Ladin is undeterred by failure and plans operations years in advance, and that FBI information, based on 70 separate investigations, indicated “patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.” Is it any wonder, then, that the President spent August 2001 agonizing over the ethics of stem-cell research?