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Surveillance technology will soon be able to read intentions.

French Foreign Minister says the world must be prepared to go to war to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Absolutely, and it's about time somebody in Europe started advocating responsibly. If the world isn't prepared to use military force to stop Iran, then it won't stop. Iran continues to defy the world because it believes the world doesn't have the will to act. This statement should go a long way to change Iran's mind. It's good that Iran is angry. It means they're taking this warning seriously.

Negotiations only work from a position of strength, regardless of the situation. In order to get the best deal from a prosecutor, you have to be prepared to go to trial. In order to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program, we have to be prepared to go to war. And the more nations, the better.

Iraq decertifies US security firm, Blackwater, because civilians died while workers were defending themselves. Private security firms walk a fine line.

Bush submits new Attorney General prospect with an eye toward appeasing Democrats. It won't work.

Clinton proposes new socialized medicine plan with mandates and increasing the already devastating federal subsidies by $110 billion per year. People who don't need insurance - the young, healthy, and wealthy, will still be forced to buy it, which increases demand but not supply further driving up prices. This will drive up health care costs by at least $110 billion a year, probably more, and even more people will be uninsured, and facing prosecution because of it. It will cost jobs and slow the economy. Why do we keep repeating the same failed policies, just adding ever more money, knowing full well that every time we do it, it makes the problem worse? Cato doesn't like it any more than I do.

Greenspan clarifies his assertion that we invaded Iraq for oil. Greenspan had made the case to the administration that we should take out Saddam to secure oil supply and stabilize the global economy. These are great reasons in addition to the main reasons to invade Iraq - breaking the back of the radical Islamic movement by creating a stable, wealthy democracy in the heart of the middle east and the cradle of civilization. Basically, we had plenty of good reasons to invade Iraq. Unfortunately, we forgot about the negatives, and they bit us in the ass in a big way. Now we have to win.

Emmys censor Sally Field's anti-war remark. Too bad Sally Field didn't have more class, but 2 wrongs don't make a right.

Reason once again downplays the threat from radical Islam. It's easy to do right until the nuke a western city.

Democrats are trying to pass a backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens called the DREAM Act.

EU court supports anti-trust ruling against Microsoft. This may be more about punishing an America company that quashed it's European competitors, but Microsoft has abused it's near monopoly power for over a decade to unfairly crush US competitors as well. How come the US never took a strong stand against these anti-competitive practices? It's sad that the EU is more supportive of competition and therefore free markets than the US government.

There has been no bigger impediment to the advancement of computing than Microsoft. I don't want more regulation of Microsoft, I want it to have to compete. Bust it up into at least 3 Babysofts, give them each all the Microsoft code, and let them compete. That's the best solution.

Mark Steyn repudiates the bizarre claim that 9/11 was caused because human beings fail to understand and love each other.

Differing views on Iraqi reconciliation.

Memo describes Muslim group's plan to turn the US into a Muslim nation.

Apparently Gen. Petraeus foresaw the need to play politics at home to win protracted wars. Excellent.

Karen Hughes highlights the declining popularity of al Qaeda in the Muslim world, and she discusses some programs to help reduce extremism at the grass roots level in the Muslim world. It's too bad these programs never get any press, just the fighting, in the war on terror. And it's nice to see some success.

Nuclear proliferation is the greatest danger to civilization.

Charlie Rangel's new titanic tax plan for "redistributing wealth".