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British to withdraw 1,600 troops from Iraq. Denmark to withdraw.

Another US helicopter was shot down in Baghdad, and terrorists are mixing chlorine gas with their bombs.

Kuwaiti news agency is reporting that coalition troops raided Muqtada al Sadr's offices in Baghdad.

Iran continues uranium enrichment despite UN deadline.

Italian Prime Minister loses government because of support of US.

Terry Nichols claims McVeigh had help from a high-level FBI official.

Libby case turned over to jury. Blogger think Fitzgerald's witchhunt won't end with Libby. I don't think the public will stand for Fitzgerald abusing his power further.

Calcutta has banned the use of rickshaws. Why? Obviously rickshaws provided a useful service.

Congress to protect Philip Morris from competition.

No reason to get mad at Bank of America for making money off illegal immigrants. Maximizing profit for it's owners is what's it's supposed to do. The illegal immigration problem needs to be solved by Washington, not companies.

Flow of illegal immigrants slowing. Texas schools recruit in Mexico for bilingual teachers. Nancy Pelosi backs tuition breaks for illegal immigrants.

John Stossel points out how government involvement in health care hurts everybody.

Rich Lowry writes that John Murtha's plan to micromanage the Iraq war is unconstitutional, and that it may well set up a constitutional crisis which everybody will lose.

Walter E. Williams points out the nonsense ideas of government and conventional wisdom.

Thomas Sowell explains how prices work to effectively ration goods.

Tension rises between US and Russia over anti-missile missiles.

US sits idly by while al Qaeda training camps spring up in Pakistan.

It's the new strategy in Iraq, not the surge in troops.

The system of natural liberty.

How government drives up the price of health care.

Book on China's New Cold war of Terror that America can't be bothered to even acknowledge.

In a book that is as certain to be as controversial as it is meticulously researched, a former special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that the U.S. could be headed toward a nuclear face-off with communist China within four years. And it definitively reveals how China is steadily pursuing a stealthy, systematic strategy to attain geopolitical and economic dominance first in Asia and Eurasia, then possibly globally, within the next twenty. Using recently declassified documents, statements by Russian and Chinese leaders largely overlooked in the Western media, and groundbreaking analysis and investigative work, Menges explains China's plan thoroughly, exposing:

• China's methods of economic control.
• China's secret alliance with Russia and other anti-America nations, including North Korea.
• China's growing military and nuclear power-over 90 ICBMs, many of them aimed at U.S. cities.
• How China and Russia have been responsible for weaponizing terrorists bent on harming the U.S.
• Damage caused by China's trade tactics (since 1990, we've lost 8 million jobs thanks to China trade surpluses)