Free kibbles

Treasury secretary Paulson asks Congress to increase the debt ceiling past the current $8.965 trillion because the government will hit that ceiling Oct. 1. That's the Bush administration's commitment to small government in action. How come he didn't ask Congress to cut spending to keep our debt below the limit? Or to cut spending even further so we could bring the debt down? Rhetorical questions, both.

Oil is over $82 barrel. Euro hits new record against the dollar. This is what the 2 parties have done to our economy.

In a related story that the press won't tell you is related, Congress' record low rating at 11% and Bush's at 29%. In the mean time, North Korea is exporting nuclear weapons technology to Syria and Iran is developing their own. When are we going to kick these 2 stupid, destructive parties out of our government and our lives? Americans need to stop fooling themselves into thinking our problems are the result of the other party, not their favorite party. We're powering the bipartisan destruction of America by our slavish devotion to the 2 parties.

Khmer Rouge leader taken to genocide court.

Israel declares Gaza hostile. Duh. Hamas shoots rockets for Gaza into Israel every day. What took them so long?

EU bans tuna fishing for the rest of 2007. Private ownership of fisheries is a better way to preserve them.

European energy reform severs energy supply from energy transmission to improve competition. Once again, Europe takes the lead in insuring competition. This is a legitimate use of government power in the free market - to enhance competition. Usually governments only act to limit competition, which is stupid.

At least 1 expert thinks Bush has no plans for a first strike on Iran. I find that hard to believe.

Senate votes to continue to deny Habeas Corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees.

Police kill wheel-chair bound schizophrenic by tasering her 10 times.

California great grandmother arrested for failing to water her lawn. Soon they'll be arresting people for failing to wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

Israeli minister proposes to cede part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.

Reason explains how rebels are working to topple the Iranian government. I hope we're helping them quite a bit.

Reason on Hillarycare 2.0. Hillary suggests providing proof of health insurance coverage as a requirement for employment. More on the failures of Canada and Britain's socialized medicine from John Stossel. More on Hillarycare from Boortz.

Canadian minister traveled to the US, just like many other Canadians, to have a medical procedure performed. That's because Canada's waits are interminable and its services are subpar. The only reason their wait times aren't terrible worse is because Canada doesn't bother to provide high end and rare services to their citizens and government officials - they depend on America to supply them. Tell me more about how great socialized medicine is. It's a destructive joke. (Hillarycare - for future reference).

Politicians want us to use public transit, but not themselves.

Reason says Fred Thompson is inconsistent on states rights, which still makes him far better than any other candidate. Dick Morris says Fred is in over his head. It's very odd that Fred has campaigned, unofficially, since spring, and he doesn't have a well defined position on anything. Attitude and charm won't win any election. Fred has to show some substance, and so far, despite his poll numbers, he has been very disappointing.

In order to take a little bit of Reagan's inheritance from Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani hires 2 of Margaret Thatcher's advisers.

Hsu spokesman claims it was an accident that Hsu missed his court date and got on a train instead.

Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million. What a joke. That guys runs a fake story times to sabotage Bush's re-election campaign, then he thinks CBS owes him money. He should have tried being an honest reporter instead.

Just put the nut on top of the anti-war rants, university newspaper asks who's more evil, Bush or bin Laden.

Jena 6. When 6 black people commit a crime, does it get the same coverage as when white people do? Jesse Jackson says Barack Obama is "acting white." What does that mean? It's code for sucking money from Obama to Jessie.