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Insurgents have changed strategy to down US helicopters. Effectively too.

Democrats get creative in attempts to defeat America.

Republicans are lining up to expose Hillary, the most divisive political figure in my lifetime. I think that Democrats have already anointed Hillary. They know all about her crimes, manipulations, lies, her real positions, and how spiteful she is, but they'll run her anyway, and she'll lose. Right-wing attacks will probably backfire. Better to let Democrats attack her.

Robot cars on road by 2030. There is no way this will take 23 years. 2020 at the latest.

Mark Steyn says that if Democrats and surrender Republicans have their way, it won't be Bush's war or Republican's war, but America's defeat.

Democrats risk taking ownership of defeat in Iraq. As I've been posting, Democrats have foolishly painted themselves into a corner. If they manipulate funding or try to micromanage the war, they will own it as they owned our defeat in Vietnam. If we succeed, they will have earned another generation or more of time in the political wilderness of weak on security. Democrats' only hope for political success is for a US defeat in Iraq in which they played no part. But even that exposes that Democrats are weak on defense.

Steve Chapman thinks Bush's North Korea deal may have stopped NK from selling it's nukes. He's the first I've heard mention that besides me.

Dick Morris says Hillary's position on Iraq exposes her stubbornness as a weakness. But Hillary is between Iraq and a hard place. If she flip-flops, she'll be beat over the head for that too, so she's forced to stand by her vote. She betting, and rightly so, that she'll still be anointed so she's playing for the national election, not the primaries. Her real mistake is not being honest, and saying she thought Saddam was a threat and removing him was the right idea. Instead, she's trying to cut the baby in half. Fortunately, even if she literally cut a baby in half, Democrats would still anoint her as their candidate.

I feel dumb because I didn't know that the KKK was originally allied with Democrats, but if you think about it, Republicans freed the slaves and tried to reconstruct the south, so it only makes sense. It also explains Robert Byrd's membership in the KKK, and Democrats' embracing of him.

Ted Galen Carpenter says the US should try to make a grand bargain with Iran.

Cato says that free trade, not legislation, is the best way to put an end to sweatshops in third world counties.

How sailors used Maine potatoes to survive a battle in WWII.

Government forcing students to get immunizations against parents' will.

Socialism at work in Venezuela.

Plans to ban the letter X in Saudi Arabia.

Relative temperature graph for the last 10,000 years. Climate history. Maybe all this was changed by man-made greenhouse gases.