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The government keeps a database on race, questions, reading material and more for international fliers. British police using military micro-drones. Apparently the surveillance cameras in Britain don't help solve crimes.

Article explains the limits of the current warrantless wiretapping law, which are very reasonable.

The surge has cut violence in Baghdad in half, allowing the city to start becoming normal again. US troops arrest an Iranian QUDs force officer transporting IEDs in Iraq. More evidence for a military strike against Iran.

New York Police deny access to ground zero for Iranian President Ahmadinejad. This is a great publicity stunt by Ahmadinejad. If he goes to ground zero, it's a publicity coup for him. If we block his access, it's a publicity coup for him. Boortz' comments.

Syria blamed for murder of Lebanese MP.

Bangladesh arrests cartoonist for blasphemy.

Bin Laden to declare war on Pakistani President Musharraf. Maybe Musharraf will finally get off his ass and wipe out al Qaeda's new safe haven in the mountains of Pakistan. Bunker busters and napalm should do the trick.

Senate blocks bill that would have restricted combat tours. That kind of management by committee could only make for more problems.

Why does race factor into justice for the Jena 6? Try the attackers for their crimes and move on. The same with the Appalachian kidnapping.

China freezes prices to fight inflation. That's going to backfire like it always does. Shortages to quickly follow.

Rudy Giuliani wants to expand the Cold War relic, NATO, and therefore expand America's military welfare to the rest of the world. We should extricate ourselves from NATO and form different alliances to meet our modern problems, and those alliances should demand comparable performance from our allies instead of being destructively one sided like NATO.

Hillary Clinton calls Dick Cheney, Darth Vader. This is the kind of destructive rhetoric the 2 parties use to gin-up phony partisanship so they can stay in power.

Obama shows what he means by "change" with is tax plan: soak the rich and promise to lower taxes on the poor and middle class. This is the exact same tax plan that Democrats have had since they instituted the income tax, with the notable exception of JFK, often wrongly compared to Obama. This is a joke. The rich already pay the vast majority of taxes in this country, and raising taxes on them kills capital investment, costs jobs, and ruins the economy. Every Democrat has a variation on this exact same plan. Some change.

Americans foregoing social lives for the web. NBC to offer free downloads of its shows.

Cato exposes Obama's silly tax plan. Adopt the FairTax.

Cato shows how our inefficient immigration laws penalize legal immigrants (which is a factor in illegal immigration).

Boortz says Democrats hate to have their party called the Democrat party, and he explains why. The founding fathers feared democracy and democrats. That's why we live in a constitutional republic with severe restrictions on the powers of government, not a democracy. They used the word democrat as an insult. I love it.

Oregon and Washington are using Mexican curriculum materials in their schools. In Spanish. So much for immersing immigrants in English. On the plus side, Mexican schools are probably better than US schools.

College seniors fail civics. We've lost sight of what makes America unique and great: economic and political freedom that comes from severely limited government. We aren't teaching that to our kids.

More than half of marriages from between 1975 and 1982 are separated, divorced, or widowed.

Dry-cleaners that was the subject of a frivolous $54 million lawsuit over a lost pair of pants has closed because of cost and stress of defending the lawsuit.

Australia cracked US fighter aircraft codes back in the 80s. Why wouldn't we just have given them proper codes?

25 Democrat Senators fail to condemn MoveOn.org "Betray Us" ad, including Hillary Clinton and Chris Dodd.

Thomas Sowell discusses the folly of nation building.

Victor Davis Hanson says that bin Laden wants power, and the reasons he claims to attack the US are just excuses he uses to gain power.

Skeptic says there is no evidence for a coming bird flu pandemic.

Mike Adams has more on Kent State jihadist professor Julio Pino.