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Is a new Ripper stalking England?

Man in pain is another victim of the war on drugs.

Cocaine washes up on Florida shore in another example of how counter-productive the war on drugs is for America. It doesn't stop drugs from coming here. It doesn't stop drug use. All it does is put Americans in jail, get Americans killed, and finance and arm America's enemies like domestic drug gangs, Mexican drug cartels, and the Taliban.

Raid cracks down on illegal immigrant identity theft ring. But I thought illegal immigrants were all law-abiding lovers of the American dream. If true, they wouldn't break into our country despite President Bush's irresponsible invitation to make them all citizens. Boortz shows how lame this really is.

Saudis may back insurgents if U.S. pulls out of Iraq.

Afghan President Karzai says "Pakistan out to enslave Afghans."

Boortz points out that thanks to Iran's phony Holocaust conference, the world finally realizes Iran is a threat. As if Ahmadinejad's desire to see the Jews destroyed needed this new platform before the world would notice. Hypocrites. I guess it's better late than never.

Online news venture draws print journalists.

Weak dollar leads to sharp decline in U.S. trade deficit. This isn't the way to reduce the trade deficit. Adopting the FairTax so American goods can compete on an even playing field in the world market is the way to fix the trade deficit. Even against China.

The climate change hysterics are having an effect. Nothing good can come of this hysteria.

Nobody should be surprised that Democrats shopped Foley emails to newspapers trying to instigate a scandal.

Using the space race as a model for energy independence. I agree with this, and my implementation would be to task DARPA with the goal of making the Army independent of oil in 10 years with no higher costs or loss of performance. The civilian world would follow.

Richard Brookhiser compares the ISG plan to a better plan for Iraq - kill all the bad guys.

Now that Putin's authoritarian plans are obvious to everybody but President Bush, we can ask did the Soviet breakup hurt the chances for a democratic Russia?

Robert Samuelson writes about the decline of American influence, but other than entitlement spending, he misses the main reasons. Trade used to be our greatest foreign policy lever. Everybody wanted to be America's friend, because it meant better trade deals. Now that we trade freely with enemies as well as friends, we have very little influence over anybody. Further, Bush keeps outsourcing our power. Bush has to ask the U.N. before we can sneeze. Bush doesn't exert American power in Iraq, he defers to Maliki. Bush doesn't hold China and Russia accountable for the Cold War of Terror they're waging against us - he dresses in funny costumes instead.

We need to return to the policy of using trade as a strategic lever for foreign policy, keep control of American power and use the U.N. to our advantage, not vice-versa, and exert American power against those who work against us.

John Stossel compares philanthropy to investment.