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House empowers special panel to investigate if Democrats stole controversial vote. This could turn into a big deal.

Senate passes bill expanding wiretapping powers. So much for all Democrats' bogus thunder and lightening about Bush wiretapping.

Diebold voting machines vulnerable to viruses. We need to have a paper trail.

The US is funding and arming former Sunni insurgents to help fight al Qaeda. As scary as this sounds, this is how insurgencies are defeated - by winning groups over 1 by 1, and getting them invested in the political process.

Pakistan opposition leader freed.

Reason on the UAW, the big 3 automakers, and health care.

Airlines are making money, but service sucks.

Discrepancies with email use and White House email policy. This is bound to be a pain in the ass to follow. You have to use different accounts depending on the content of the messages, even if you're writing to the same person. Can this be any less important?

4 years after we toppled Saddam, Iraq is still starving for electricity and clean water. There's no excuse for that failure. This happened because our government bureaucracies are so big and unaccountable that they failed to rebuild this critical infrastructure.

China bans reincarnation of Tibet's living Buddhas without permission from Chinese officials.

Heatwaves are longer in Europe than a century ago.

The Kos convention, attended by the Democratic presidential candidates, censors uniformed soldier and escorts him from the conference as he tried to address the surge to a panel.

The decline of civilization: collapsed bridge highlights sorry state of bridges in the US. I agree with the woman who said, "Bridges in America should not fall down."

NASA launches Mars Phoenix lander.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes Islam.

Democrats are invested in our defeat in Iraq. The author must be another reader.

Rudy Giuliani proposes tax breaks to stimulate competition, lowing the price of health care. While this is light years better than Democrats' socialist plans, it's still a big government solution. The solution to the health care problem is to adopt the FairTax, which would remove all the subsidies and tax complications that drive up the cost of health care, and to get the government completely out of the business of providing health care, further reducing the costs. Any role government plays in health care is bad for Americans.

Not learning from history, Democrats want to repeathe folly of raising taxes on the already highly taxed rich.

Ralph Peters has the numbers to prove that, despite the mainstream media's spotlight on the crimes of soldiers, we have the best behaved military in history, and they are orders of magnitude more law-abiding than the general population.

Author says Congress watered down the ethics bill. It does sound like an improvement, though, even if not much.

The implied threat in Russia's seemingly clownish claim of the North Pole.

Foreign countries have secret prisons that work with American officials.