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The role of militias and politics in Iraq. The reason we need to kill al Sadr and destroy the Mahdi army, "They can stir up trouble without much fear of retribution." Cheney visits Saudis ask for help. Ransom is a major source of funding for Iraqi insurgents. Apparently the French and Italians are willing to negotiate with and pay money to terrorists. Bush is making a new diplomatic push. If this is really new, Bush should be fired.

Senator Hagel is trying to turn Iraq into George Bush's personal Vietnam. Robert Kagan and William Kristol say that what currently passes for "realism" is really "surrender."

Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire, but rockets still fall on Israel.

Japan plans to build the world's tallest tower. One of the surest signs of U.S. decline is our lack of will to build great structures. We don't even have the will to rebuild the twin towers.

U.S. border agent caught trying to drive ammunition into Mexico.

Smuggling radioactive materials including polonium 210 is common in Russia. Investigators consider ex-spy may have killed himself. I seriously doubt he committed suicide in this horrible fashion.

British police plan to put microphones on the street. Mind reading devices soon to follow.

Mark Steyn gives an entertaining description of how demographics influences the future.

Ralph Peters says don't believe the demographics argument for Eurasia. He says Europe will revert to it's long history of ethnic cleansing soon.

Shikha Dalmia reads the election results wrong on illegal immigration. Voters weren't fooled by so-called Republican hawks on illegal immigration who were in fact nothing but hypocrits on the issue. Republican malfeasance led to the current crisis, and the unfunded partial fence was the cherry on the hypocrisy sundae. Many of the candidates who defeated these so-called hawks also took strong stances against illegal immigration. When voting on the issue directly, voters, including latinos, made it clear that they won't stand for the southern invasion continuing.

Hispanic immigrant demographics are destabilizing the U.S. too. "Not only has illegitimacy become perfectly acceptable, [...] but so has the resort to welfare and social services to cope with it." Democrats love having more welfare recipients. The more people dependant on the government, the better for Democrats. Illegal immigrants' 3rd world economics and 3rd world values are turning America into a 3rd world country.

Bush's pie in the sky ideology thinks we can "fix" these illegal immigrants like we can "fix" Iraq. Bush thinks government is omnipotent, and differences between peoples are problems for his government to fix. He's wrong. There is no fixing; they're just different, and it's those differences that make their countries third world countries. Illegal immigrants belong in their home country. How hard is that to figure out?

We welcome legal immigrants, immigrants who respect America and want to be part of America. We should crack down on employers of illegal immigrants, provide gate-crashers no benefits, then most will go home where they belong. We should arrest, convict and deport those who stay as we catch them, insuring they can never return. Once that policy is in place, illegal immigrants will race home to apply to come here legally, and very few will try to come here or stay here illegally.

Supreme Court to hear case related to global warming. States and environmental groups are suing to usurp the President's power to run the country. Imagine if every policy debate was decided by courts. The court has no business in this case.

McDonalds has applied for a patent on the sandwich. Really.