Joe Wilson South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, who faces a formal rebuke from his colleagues this week for shouting “You lie!” at the president during a joint address to Congress, said he would offer no further apologies. “I have apologized to the president, I believe that's sufficient,” Wilson said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” House Democratic leaders said they would offer a resolution this week to formally admonish Wilson, unless he apologizes on the House floor, which he has said he would not do. “It's going to be tough because I respect my colleagues,” Wilson said of the resolution. “I respect civility and I promote civility in every way, particularly on the House floor.” Except for last Wednesday, when Wilson called President Barack Obama a liar during the part of the president's speech when he said the health care overhaul would not provide coverage to illegal immigrants. Attention to the issue has prompted Senate negotiators to revisit the issue to make sure there are provisions in place to make sure illegal immigrants do not get federally subsidized coverage. “I think, and I didn't mean to do this, but I certainly brought attention to” the issue, Wilson said. The vote on the resolution is likely to reignite partisan tempers. “It will be a disgrace if they do some stunt in the House to try to humiliate this man,” said conservative commentator Bill Kristol, also on “Fox News Sunday.” – blogs.wsj.com/washwire Norman Borlaug Norman Borlaug, a scientist whose work in plant breeding has been credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, succumbed to complications from cancer Sunday night. You can find a bio of Norman Borlaug's work in the New York Times. Our condolences to his family. We'll post more reactions as they come in. He was widely described as the father of the broad agricultural movement called the Green Revolution, though decidedly reluctant to accept the title. “A miserable term,” he said, characteristically shrugging off any air of self-importance. Yet his work had a far-reaching impact on the lives of millions of people in developing countries. His breeding of high-yielding crop varieties helped to avert mass famines that were widely predicted in the 1960s, altering the course of history. Largely because of his work, countries that had been food deficient, like Mexico and India, became self-sufficient in producing cereal grains. “More than any other single person of this age, he has helped provide bread for a hungry world,” the Nobel committee said in presenting him with the Peace Prize. “We have made this choice in the hope that providing bread will also give the world peace.”
