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Plans to implement a database for every child in UK next year.

Looming teacher shortage. This is another result of central planning. Let the free market take over education, and this won't happen.

After decrying the "well funded" skeptics, funded by $10 million, Gore plans to start $100 million per year global warming propaganda campaign. This guy is the worst kind of sleaze. BBC chief blast BBC plans to preach about global warming. Excellent! This is a political issue, and no news outlet should preach about one side of it. News networks should give equal time all viewpoints.

Attorney General Gonzales resigns. About time. This is a perfect example of the Peter Principle. His mishandling of firing 8 US Attorneys enabled Democrats to turn that non-issue into a constant battle with the White House.

Iraq whistle-blowers, American citizens, allege being punished with harsh interrogation techniques reserved for terrorists.

Afghanistan has more land devoted to producing drugs than Columbia, Bolivia and Peru combined. Thanks to the War on Drugs for that.

Home sales at 5 year low. Sounds like a correction to me. Fears of recession. Median price of homes is expected to drop for the first time since records began in 1950. Reason on the sub-prime lending issue.

Canadian conspiracy theorists think cops planted agents at protest to start riot.

Hillary's astounding negative rating.

Scientists want to use animal-human hybrid embryos for research. Isn't there plenty of other things we can research instead? It's like these people are trying to find the most unpopular, morally distasteful issues they can, and push them for research instead of finding equally valuable, popular, research projects. These projects sound more like they're based on politics than a need for science.

Scientists have finally detected their ghost particle, neutrinos.

Boortz responds to the ridiculously inaccurate discussion of the FairTax in the WSJ that I blogged yesterday.

Huckabee's getting closer to the real problem with our economy - it's based on the poor health of Americans. We have to get healthier.

Bishop blames Satan for beating his wife.

The case for surveillance. I can state it more simply - we have to gather intelligence to stop terrorist attacks.

The media exaggerates the importance of the presidential campaign this early. The media exaggerating? Say it ain't so.

The mindset of true warriors, including captives in Vietnam.

Throughout history, people have often talked about the imminent decline of America. But in those times, we weren't suffocating under titanic government and a welfare state, racing toward bankruptcy from entitlements, allowing illegal immigrants to invade the country without reprise, and more and more poorly educating our children. This decline is real. That doesn't mean that China won't stumble, but America's decline is real. Victor Davis Hansen understands the education problem, and offers simple solutions. It's the family, stupid.

Michael Barone supports divestment in Iran. Duh.

Democrats' opposition to free trade with Columbia forced ouster of Columbian military leaders corrupted by drug war. If the government knew they were corrupt, why hadn't they been purged before?

Crackdown on illegal aliens will teach us a lot about the problem. We should have been doing this and more for the last 2 decades.

Charles Krauthammer says the Maliki government must go. He must be reading my blog too. It's funny how all these commentators have finally come to the same conclusions I've been expressing for nearly a year. I must be getting popular.

NSA director Mike McConnell's testimony on the FISA debate.

The NYTimes attempts to blame Bush for the failures of the Iraqi government. Give me a break. Sure, invading Iraq was a bad idea. Sure, racing to install a national government without first establishing security and grass roots, democratic traditions was absurdly stupid. Sure, Bush, Bremer, Rumsfeld and the commanders in Iraq made mistake after mistake after mistake for 4 years. But the opportunity has always been there for the Maliki government to unite Iraq. That failure falls squarely on the shoulders of the Iraqis led by Maliki.

The Washington Times explains the aptness of Bush's (stolen from me, no doubt ;) ) Vietnam, Korea, Japan analogy.

Liberal has the temerity to claim that our pullout of Vietnam was a success. I think the millions of victims of the Kymer Rouge, the boat people, the reeducated people, the citizens of Afghanistan, the hostages in Iraq, and many, many more would disagree. This is a sickness of liberals. Like Stalin and Mao before them, liberals think it's OK to have allowed millions of people to die. That's why liberals loved Stalin and Mao while they were killing over 100 million people. Dangerous lunacy.

Excellent explanation from Britain about why Democrats hate that Bush brought up the Vietnam analogy. For 30 years, liberals have been misinforming the public about the Vietnam War. In spite of this, the nation has understood that Democrats can't be trusted on national defense because they betrayed our allies and our own troops who fought in Vietnam. Democrats were hoping to avoid confronting their actions, cutting off the funds for South Vietnam to defend itself when North Vietnam broke the treaty, despite repeating them regarding Iraq before 2008 and slip through the backdoor as the party that America trusts more for national security, and Bush just cut them off at the knees by reminding the entire nation of Democrats' betrayal in Vietnam and drawing a parallel, the only real parallel, between that and Democrats irresponsibility regarding Iraq.

By asserting the right of Congress to set war policy, they have promised their left wing more than they can perform, appeared reluctant to support US troops in combat and stirred old doubts about whether Democrats can be trusted with the nation’s defence.

Anne Applebaum explains that all of the presidential candidates suck.

Australian understatement: A nuclear-armed Iran would not be good.

John Stossel explodes the recently published bull from the World Health Organization that America's health care is substandard.

Ralph Peters describes the strategy Gen. Petraeus has used to change the war in Iraq for the better.