This recipe is the Bacon
Explosion, modestly called by its inventors “the BBQ Sausage
Recipe of all Recipes.” The instructions for constructing this
massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven
through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue
sauce first appeared last month on the Web site of a team of
Kansas City competition barbecuers. They say a diverse collection
of well over 16,000 Web sites have linked to the recipe,
celebrating, or sometimes scolding, its excessiveness. A fresh
audience could be ready to discover it on Super Bowl Sunday.

This is supposed to be a new
era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish
list of every living — or dead — Democratic interest group. As
Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "We won the election. We wrote
the bill." So they did.

A U.S. Airways airplane has
crashed into the Hudson River, CBS 2 has learned. The plane
appears to be in one piece and passengers are being evaucated by
rescue teams.

Officials tell CBS 2 the
airplane is Flight 1549, an Airbus 380 that took off from La
Guardia Aiport.

The plane is floating
upright in the water near the USS Intrepid.

The video, a compilation of
MEMRI TV clips that aired prior to the current Gaza crisis,
includes statements by Hamas leaders calling for the annihilation
of Israel and of all Jews, for death to America, and for the
Islamic conquest of the world.

Featured are Hamas leader
Khaled Mash’al, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, Hamas MPs
Mushir Al-Masri and Fathi Hamad, Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal,
Palestinian Legislative Council acting speaker Sheikh Ahmad Bahr,
and Hamas clerics Wael Al-Zarad and Muhsen Abu ‘Ita.

Viewers will also see
footage of military training for adults and kindergarten children,
anti-american speeches at rallies including burning of the
American flag and calls of support for "The Afghan Mujahidin",
Hamas Al-Aqsa TV children’s shows, and more.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday
that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since
their release from custody.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff
Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed as "returning
to the fight" and 43 are suspected of having done in a report
issued late in December by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Chrystia Freeland wouldn’t.
The US managing editor of the Financial Times made the stunning
statement during the course of a classic Morning Joe dust-up
today. Joe Scarborough, with help from tag-team partner Pat
Buchanan, went after Freeland on her opposition to waterboarding
and similar interrogation techniques. At one point Scarborough
called Freeland "sophomoric." Later, the exasperated MJ
host gave his guest some of the same treatment to which he’d
recently been subjected by Zbigniew Brzezinski, telling Freeland
"you have no idea what you’re talking about."