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1/3 of citizens of Washington D.C. are illiterate. 1/5 nationwide. We've tried more government. We've tried more spending. We've tried feel good measures. We've tried every liberal tactic in the book. It's time to take back control of our schools from the failing federal government. Abolish the Department of Education, so our children can get a good education.

If we give the federal government more control over health care, they'll destroy our health just as fast. We'll be reading that 1/3 of D.C. residents are too unhealthy to work, 1/5 nationwide.

Drugs could remove painful memories. Wow.

Democrats are loading pork barrel projects into emergency spending bill for Iraq. The only way to end the pork is by kicking out all the incumbents, something we've needed to do every election for a very long time.

Libertarians, greens, livestock producers and hippies team up to fight ethanol subsidies.

White House threatens to veto bill requiring troops to pull out of Iraq.

Russia threatens to withhold nuclear fuel from Iran unless it suspends uranium enrichment. Looks like an ugly divorce, and it's all about the money now. Russia denies ultimatum.

Al Qaeda and Taliban fighting each other in north-west Pakistan. Why don't we kill both?

Iraqi terrorists are using children in car bombs. Interview with Gen. Petraeus, who is cautiously optimistic, and for good reason.

Petraeus has his troops applying a similar formula in Baghdad's Sadr City: "We're clearing it neighborhood by neighborhood." Troops move in - mainly U.S. soldiers and Marines supported by Iraqi forces, although that ratio is reversed in some areas - and stay. They are not transiting back to large, remote bases but are now living with the people they have come to protect. The results, Petraeus says, have been "dramatic."

Are the policies paying off? "King David" as Petraeus is known from his previous tour of duty up near the Syrian border, is cautiously optimistic. "Less than half the al Qaeda leaders who were in Baghdad when this [surge] campaign began are still in the city," he said. "They have fled or are being killed or captured. We are attriting them at a fearsome rate."

US diplomat meets with Palestinian minister.

Anne Applebaum thinks 9/11 mastermind's confession was muted because of extra-legal conditions. She's wrong. Guantanamo is a prisoner of war camp. Information gathered there is like information gathered from Germans, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese in those prisoner of war camps - valid and hopefully timely. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad's confession was muted because we've known he was the mastermind for years.

Comparing the war in Iraq to taking the Philippines in 1899.

Scientist who claims Bush muzzled him over global warming in fact did 1,400 on the job interviews. That's some muzzling. The truth about the climate con-men is getting out. Scientists claim the global temperature measurement itself has no meaning. That explains why it's not as hot now as it was in the 30s, despite these so-called record global temperatures.

Email shows US attorney removed for failing to meet deadlines and follow national policy set by the President. For some reason Democrats and the press want us to think firing on those grounds is a bad thing. It's not. It looks like the Department of Justice uploaded 3000 emails on the Attorney firings to the internet. This is a huge mistake by the administration. That gives the Democrats 3000 bullets to fire at the administration in their political game to make something out of nothing. The Daily Kos knows this, and calls the emails "pure gold." It shows fantastic incompetence that Bush has allowed Democrats to take a perfectly normal and legitimate act by the White House and turn it against them, and the Bush administration just keeps making it worse.

Taking a play from Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald's playbook, Charles Schumer wants administration officials to testify under oath so that they can use the inevitable contradictions as evidence of perjury, further trying to criminalize politics. Bush just got burned by this game, and won't allow his staff to testify under oath.

Senate votes to remove power of President, granted by the Patriot Act, to appoint US Attorneys unilaterally. This is an excellent move despite the absurdity of the situation. Congress should also remove the unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act right away.

Reason remembers Newt. Newt still has the best ideas of any conservative out there.

Obama is the most liberal (read socialist) member of Congress running for President. He's just the same as the rest, we just haven't heard about his socialist policies for decades like the rest.

McCain claims to reconsider his position on immigration after visiting Iowa. He's sticking his finger in the wind. McCain's from Arizona. If he doesn't know how bad the immigration problem is already, he's a complete idiot. I think it's more likely he doesn't give a damn about immigration, just getting elected.

Scientists create a tougher mosquito, but it doesn't carry malaria. The law of unintended consequences is going to rear it's ugly head.

The Toyota Prius takes more resources to produce than the Hummer.

Thomas Sowell explains why talk shows are boring - except for Boortz and Cunningham.

David Limbaugh complains that Republicans never fight back against the Big Lies of the Democrat smear machine.

Rich Lowry points out that just as Bush was wrong to hold on the mantra that all was well in Iraq, Democrats are wrong to hold onto the mantra that we've already lost. Both ignored the very real evidence.

Speech that puts the War on Terror in the context of 1400 years of Christian/Muslim conflict.