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State and local tax burden hits all time high.

Michigan Democrats push plan to provide every school-child with an iPod.

Spiegel claims IPCC report confirms climate change is a fact. If you define climate change as 0.4 degree temperature change, then that's true, and our climate changes every century. This claim is meaningless. Report claims billions at risk from climate change. The proposed solution is to make the poor poorer so they will have fewer options for survival. This propaganda is a joke. There is no evidence of human-caused global warming, and solid evidence of solar activity driven global warming. Africa will be hardest hit, but environmentalists refuse to allow Africa to have cheap energy so people can cope, meaning more will die. Unusual cold across the US. It's snowing and the snow is sticking right now.

Iraq's oil contracts will likely go to Asia first. That really sucks. We pay the price to free Iraq, and they deal with Asia first? I doubt this will stand.

Full testament of captured British servicemen. Slate on how Blair mishandled the hostage situation. Hostages pressured by Iran.

America tries to reassure Russia that missile shield won't undermine Russian security. We finally have a potential defense against nuclear missiles, Russia's or anybody else's, and we're stuck coddling a tyrant who doesn't? Russia can adopt political and economic freedom and get the missile shield if it wants, but it chose dictatorship. We better be prepared to use that shield against Putin and his successors. What an abject failure of both the Clinton and Bush administrations to assist Russia on the path of freedom after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Once again, the US claims it found a way to transfer $25 million in North Korean funds frozen because of counterfeiting US money. How is that good for us?

China systematically developing new technologies. Espionage against the US is a major development tool for China.

Homeland Security Chief Chertoff identifies radical Britons as threat to US.

Ex-UN ambassador John Bolton responds to Saudi king explaining US involvement in Iraq is legal. I like this guy more and more.

Cheney reminds public of Iraqi-al Qaeda ties before the invasion of Iraq. World Net Daily lists numerous ties. Liberals like to claim there were no ties, but the evidence is overwhelming.

Israel attacks Gaza militants with missiles.

Reason compares the mythical scientific consensus on global warming with the actual scientific consensus on genetically modified food, and finds the environmentalism hysterics on the wrong side of both.

The high prices of education and health care continued to drive down unemployment to 4.4%.

Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria is a felony, but nobody would prosecute a Democrat. After her bumbling, can she look like any more of a poseur? If Republican Speaker of the House undermined a Democratic President like this, he'd be flayed by the press and likely forced to resign his leadership position.

13 year old girl arrested for writing on desk. This is another example of how government has gutted the system of discipline in schools. Teachers and principals have no recourse for discipline, so they're forced to call the cops in ridiculous situations. If this girl refused to stop after being assigned detention, she should have been sent to the VP's office for a swat and a second detention. Teacher permanently suspended for putting clothespins on students' lips. That's how you handle irresponsible corporal punishment by teachers.

Boortz explains why nearly 50% of Americans, 20% of Democrats, fear corruption if Hillary wins the White House. It's a well founded fear, and it's why Hillary is unelectable.

Newt Gingrich to debate John Kerry about global warming. I sure hope Newt is a skeptic. He'll crush Kerry in any debate.

The Magic Mushroom Moment.

Religious fanatics have themselves nailed to cross for Easter. That's far better than suicide bombing.

Japan writes rules for advanced robots, but these aren't Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.

Charles Krauthammer says international institutions proved worse than useless against Iran in the British hostage crisis, but the US pulled strings to free the hostages.

The choice in Iran may be military strikes or allowing them to obtain the bomb.

Ralph Peters once again blasts the British servicemen who responded to the spectacle in Tehran like "surrender monkeys". Having lived through Vietnam and talked with WWII vets, it's hard to imagine British troops responding to capture this way.

There is a natural timetable for the surge - all support will erode after summer without results.

How liberals get it wrong every time.