I don’t know why this is coming out now, but I’m not surprised by it:

Dr. Robert Atkins, whose popular diet stresses protein-rich meat and cheese over carbohydrates, weighed 258 pounds at his death and had a history of heart disease, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Atkins died last April at age 72 after being injured in a fall on an icy street.
Before his death, he had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a report by the city medical examiner.
At 258 pounds, the 6-foot-tall Atkins would have qualified as obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s body-mass index calculator.
Diet is one potential factor in heart disease, but infections also can contribute to it.
Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council in New York, told the Journal that Atkins’ heart disease stemmed from cardiomyopathy, a condition thought to result from a viral infection.
Atkins’ weight was due to bloating associated with his condition, and he had been much slimmer during most of his life, Trager said.

Yes. Of course a viral infection is to blame.
I have a bad feeling that we’re going to see a lot of heart attacks a few years down the road.

Vote.

Progress may be underway in addressing two issues swirling over Washington.
In the Valerie Plame leak investigation, White House press secretary Scott McClellan and press aide Adam Levine were called to testify before a a federal grand jury last Friday. Investigators reportedly have “handwritten White House notes, detailed cellphone logs and copies of e-mail messages between White House aides and reporters” and are demanding “explanations of conversations between aides and reporters for some of the country’s largest news organizations.”
In the Bush National Guard matter, the Defense Department has called for military records which may shed light on the gap in Bush’s service record.

Two years ago President Bush offered the following in his State of the Union Address:

“Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears and showed us the true scope of the task ahead. We have seen the depth of our enemies’ hatred in videos where they laugh about the loss of innocent life. And the depth of their hatred is equaled by the madness of the destruction they design. We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water facilities, detailed instructions for making chemical weapons, surveillance maps of American cities, and thorough descriptions of landmarks in America and throughout the world.”

Don’t you think that if there was a specific threat toward nuclear facilities, it might be a good idea to let the Nuclear Regulatory Commission know about it?

Edward McGaffigan Jr., a member of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, responding to an environmental group’s query, said this month that he testified in 2002 after the speech in at least one closed congressional hearing that he was not aware of any evidence that ” ‘diagrams of American nuclear power plants’ had been found in Afghanistan.”

I’m not a homeland security expert like the gurus in this administration, but I’m thinking it might be a good idea to pass along supposed threats to the people in charge of vulnerable facilities.

Instapundit links to an article stating former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill had classified documents, and adds:

It’s not clear that this is O’Neill’s fault, but it’s certainly somebody’s.

Actually, if you read the full article he links to, or this one from three days ago, it’s clear that O’Neill isn’t at fault. I’m not sure where Intsa’s confusion is coming from.