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More fall-out for Moscow from bungled Polonium assassination. Former Russian Prime Minister in grave condition after being poisoned. The poisonings may be signs of a power struggle for Putin's successor.

Daniell Henninger says that Pope Benedict is standing up for the west and engaging Islam the same way Pope John Paul stood up to communism. This is a great read. Pope John Paul was only successful because of Reagan and Thatcher. Will anybody play that role?

The U.S. considers ending it's outreach program to Sunni insurgents. Are you kidding me? Instead of killing the insurgents, we've been reaching out to them. There's no room for bleeding-heart liberal policies in war.

Exploding comparisons of Iraq and WWII.

Oliver North says Bush has failed to engage government resources, other than the military, to win in Iraq.

Lebanese government in danger of collapse. If the government is really U.S. backed, why aren't we doing anything to support it?

Boortz has more information on the 6 imams. Seems one of them had ties to terrorists.

Supreme Court to rule on obvious patents.

U.S. changes citizenship test.

The dollar continues to fall.

Democrats plan to pass tuition tax deduction.

Feds keep data-mined database on Americans secret.

Bush promotes abstinence in fight against AIDS.

Paperless electronic voting machines are still under attack. Good. Having a paper trail makes elections much harder to manipulate.

CATO weighs in on education markets and the monopoly of government schools.

Website claims to identify police informants. CATO has an interactive raid map of police raids gone wrong. There's a lot more than you have heard about.

How long until this pilot X-Ray screening technology is abused? We'll see it in schools soon enough. Software could easily remove all of the image except external items.

Church bells silenced for violating sound limits. Santa is pulled from school breakfast because he's a religous figure.

Scientists announce that top stones in Egyptian pyramids were poured, not quarried.

Mel Gibson's bizarre infatuation with violence grows with Apocalypto.

Charles Krauthammer says we need to change the government in Iraq, not deal with Iran and Syria. I'm gaining converts.

Discussing whether or not Iraq is in a civil war, Pat Buchanan pulls no punches.

Paul Starobin discusses what happens when America is no longer the only superpower, or even a superpower at all. Our current policies are enriching China to the point it will pass us in a couple decades, so this discussion is timely. The question is, what do you want the world to look like when America, the greatest force for good the world has ever seen, is eclipsed? Do you want America to be eclipsed by communist China, the greatest evil the world has ever seen? That's where our current policies are taking us.

Right now China is making appearances of playing nice in order to convince the U.S. to make China rich. But they are just biding their time while we make them stronger and using proxies to weaken us - a classic Sun Tzu strategy. This is still the same regime that killed 70 million of it's own citizens under Mao Tse-Tung.

America needs to use every tool at it's disposal to insure that China becomes a peaceful democracy, and that can only be done by confronting China while we're more powerful. We should use trade, diplomacy, and military pressure to convert China, and its authoritarian ally Russia, to peaceful democracies. We need to acknowledge they are waging a new Cold War of Terror against us, we need to engage and win that war like Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviets. How we deal with China as it surpasses us in power will be the legacy of the United States.

When we are eclipsed, the greatest countries in the world will either be free democracies, or totalitarian states. In the first case the future of mankind will be freedom. In the second case, we'll fall into a dark age of world-wide enslavement of humanity. I know which I prefer.