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Emails may contradict testimony on attorney firings. Emails. The Justice Dept. will always be political. Bush may be turning on Gonzales. Gonzales' Chief of Staff resigns. Ties to White House. Rove involved.

Kalidh Sheikh Mohammad admits to planning 9/11 attacks and others.

Senate shoots down Democrats' attempts to retreat from Iraq.

UN powers agree to new sanctions on Iran.

Reporter attacks Drudge Report for using Kuwaiti source on US casualty rates in Iraq. These guys are desperate that good news from Iraq never be heard. It's bad enough they won't report the news themselves, but they're attacking those who do.

US changes status on Macau bank. China claims this endangers the 6 party deal with North Korea.

Chaquita funded Columbian death squad.

Senate budget plan includes funds for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and extends Bush tax cuts. It's one thing to demagogue Bush's policies before an election, but it's another to govern.

The UN knows its human caused global warming propaganda is a fraud, but it's too invested to right that wrong. In order to keep the propaganda alive through our improving climate, it's telling us that it will get nicer before it gets bad. Our current climate is nowhere near as warm even as the medieval warming period, which was a period of tremendous growth in Europe.

Hillary Clinton actually says something that makes sense and isn't a lie! She says that if elected, she will keep troops in Iraq. The left will not like that at all, but any President will have to do the same.

Time's version of how the right went wrong. It was overconfidence and incompetence. They turned into the fat-cat Democrats they decried so long. Power corrupts, and now both parties are thoroughly corrupt.

Newt blasts the ridiculously long Presidential campaign.

Howard Dean expects to win in '08. At least he's optimistic, but as bad as Republicans have become, and they're horrible, the country will not elect an outright socialist, and that's all Democrats are.

Web censorship is spreading around the world.

Boortz says that Mexico runs our border, and not just because of the Mexican drug gangs we fund thanks to the misnamed War on Drugs.

Victor Davis Hanson describes Gen. Petraeus' daunting task, but identifies many generals who turned around campaigns in recent history.

George Will points out that with so many states moving their primaries to Feb. 5, earlier votes in Iowa and New Hampshire will gain in importance, not less, since no candidate can campaign in all those states at once.

John Stossel says that, because of the law of unintended consequences, freedom-stealing safety regulations kill more people than they save. As if we need another reason to reduce government.

Thomas Sowell reviews Britain's recent global warming debunking documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle.

Ann Coulter says it's not the Generals' fault that Walter Reed was neglected - it's the because government employees can't be fired, so they have no incentive to perform. This is Ann Coulter at her best. I hope she got a serious wake-up call after her indefensible comment about John Edwards.

Clinton, Reno, and Hubble fired all 93 US attorneys. The media ignored Clinton's firings. Media puff piece on the AG who fired attorneys and killed the Branch Davidians. Ken Starr's convictions.

Update on activity of the Yellowstone caldera.