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Heroic professor, holocaust survivor, dies protecting students.

Virginia Tech shooter is a a resident alien student. Used different name in grievance note. Bought gun in March - had serial number filed off. Police are too late. That's why they're called first responders. American citizens are always the first defenders, and we have to stop disarming them against the laws of nature and the constitution. European press blames Charlton Heston and the NRA. Really.

There are 4 million Iraqi refuges. This is another reason we have to win in Iraq - so these people can go home.

Rival Mexican drug cartels erupt in violence.

Italy tries US soldier in absentia. Soldier rejects jurisdiction.

British pound over $2. Dow all-time high.

Email scandal grows. If the White House really did delete emails in violation of the law, Democrats may finally extract their pound of flesh. They must be happy to have discovered an actual scandal instead of these pitiful manufactured media stories that have no substance.

Democrats plan to bring back the misnamed Fairness Doctrine in an attempt to shut down talk radio - a market in which liberals cannot compete because nobody wants to listen to them.

Misreporting on Attorney firings: Gonzales never said he was uninvolved - he said he was peripherally involved.

Reason on rewriting the tax code. Forget that; adopt the FairTax.

Orwellian overtones: Britain joins the US government in banning phrase "war on terror."

Lessons for hawks and doves from Eisenhower:

Eisenhower's attitude put him at odds with the hawks of both his time and ours; anyone speaking as categorically against preventive war today as he did in 1954 would be derided by mainstream Republicans as a "defeatocrat," waiting for America's enemies to gather strength and strike first. But the victor of World War II was assuredly no dove. He made clear his theoretical willingness to use nuclear weapons, he sent U.S. marines to Lebanon, and he said, "We do not escape war by surrendering on the installment plan." The best way to see Eisenhower is as neither hawk nor dove but, so to speak, as a reptile: a cold-blooded realist.

The fallacy of the hawks is that while our enemies gather power, we don't. America should always be gathering power faster than our enemies. Unfortunately, our titanic government keeps that from happening. By limiting the size and scope of government, adopting the FairTax, ending all government spending and restrictions that have destroyed our health care and education systems, America will experience growth unequaled in history - far outstripping any gathering of forces of our enemies.

The fallacy of the doves is that we can ignore real threats and surrender with no consequences. Unfortunately both hawks and doves work together to keep America from getting stronger through government reforms listed above and more.