It's happening:

Using the name of Jesus in the public square is patently offensive.

From an Alaskan free-speech school case. More here and here.

Still more on Iran's "defection infection." (HT: PJM)

Who is Ali Reza Asgari and why is he important? No one is quite sure yet, but when the Iranian general and former deputy defense minister disappeared in Istanbul earlier this year, suddenly everyone had a good spy story to follow. Did Asgari defect? Was he kidnapped by a foreign intelligence agency? And how does his fate affect the United States in its ongoing confrontation with Iran, if it does at all?

Earlier posts here and here.

Wikipedia has their collection of 2006 Pictures of the Year up. There's some good stuff in there. (HT: PJM)

Proof that scientists don't have enough to do. (HT: Instapundit)