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Senators feign surprise that our borders are not secure. Federal investigators easily traveled from Canada into the US, and not so easily but still successfully from Mexico into the US with what appeared to be nuclear material. They crossed at official border crossings - they didn't even bother to cross at the thousands of miles of opens spaces and still managed to carry fake nuclear material into the US.

2 new nuclear reactors to be built in Texas. I hope this is the start of a trend. Nuclear reactors reduce our demand on oil, which helps lower oil prices, boosting the economy and limiting the money sent to terrorists. We also need to shore up our decrepit power grid that can't handle any hot spells, cold snaps or terrorist attacks, then take old petroleum power plants off line to further reduce our demand for oil.

As if they read my blog, officials show how easy it is to shut down our power grid using a cyber attack because our grid is so ancient.

Tennessee starts cigarette surveillance program. High taxes are creating a black market for legal items. That's how you know that government is out of control.

Chicago develops more advanced video security. There is a way for technology to get useful security information while at the same time protecting the privacy of everybody else, but I sincerely doubt that our government wants to protect our privacy.

Man arrested for coughing.

I'm shocked to find out that nearly half of Americans trust the federal government to do anything. These numbers may be an all time low, but they're unreasonably high. Our federal government has to be by far the most wasteful, inefficient, counterproductive organization in the world. Why doesn't everybody see that? How willingly blind do you have to be trust our government and either party?

In a perfect example of sound bite politics, Congress passes bill that will greatly expand government funded health insurance to many well-off families that already have health insurance. This expand government power and undermines the benefits of the free market. Democrats know they can count on the sound bite that Republicans denied health care to children even though it's a complete misrepresentation of the facts. And I bet it works.

Report claims we may have missed killing bin Laden again.

France claims Russia is holding back sanctions on Iran. Duh. Iran is their proxy in their new Cold War of Terror against the west. They want Iran's money, and they want Iran to drain our resources while Russia grows wealthier.

Hamas funding flowing through Israeli banks.

Condoleezza Rice says the US takes global warming seriously. Maybe she should hunt for some scientific evidence that CO2 is a major driver of climate change first. That ought to keep her busy for the rest of her life since no such evidence exists.

Reason discusses CO2 restrictions and technological breakthroughs. We don't need either. CO2 is not a problem. I might become noticeable in a couple decades, but by then our technology and our understanding of climate will be so much more far advanced its silly to even waste resources on the problem now.

Democrats propose oppressive tax hikes to fight global warming even though no evidence exists that man-made CO2 has affected climate, and tons of evidence exist that show it hasn't.

UN official says climate change threatens global equality. What the hell is global equality, and why would we want it? As I keep saying, the poor, being less able to adapt, will bear the brunt of the effects of inevitable climate change, and the best way to limit that is to grow humanity's wealth as fast as possible. Punishing rich countries with anti-growth policies will hurt the economies of every country in the world, and will make every individual less able to adapt. It's stupid. But Al Gore demands it.

Report claims Saddam Hussein offered to step down if paid $1 billion. You'd have to seriously consider an offer like that, if it was real. I don't think that's analogous to negotiating with terrorists.

Walmart expands $4 drug program. This is an incredible deal.

Reason applauds the return to rationalism in the housing market. It won't last.

Reason interviews author about the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

Slate advocates lowering the age of consent for sex. That'll go over well.

Reason points out 4 systemic economic biases that lead people to vote poorly and therefore lead to poor government policies: anti-market bias, anti-foreign bias, make-work bias, and pessimistic bias.

The same kool-aid drinkers who say Bush didn't use enough diplomacy to build a coalition for going into Iraq now say that he used too much. They're attacking him for using threats to help build support. What do they think diplomacy is? Getting on your hands and knees and begging? They would attack him for praying if he did that.

Diplomacy has to be both a carrot and a stick to be effective. I guess they think we should always negotiate from a position of weakness and accept failure every time. Then blame Bush for it. These people would attack Bush over the weather. Oh wait. They already have.

Leading Democrats refuse to commit to ending the War in Iraq. Hillary called Bush irresponsible for not ending it before he leaves office in the same sentence when she said she would not commit to ending it within the following 4 years. What a hypocrite, but plenty of kool-aid drinkers will buy this double-standard.

Hillary Clinton flip-flops on her torture position, now ruling out torture in even the ticking timebomb scenario. I agree with this position. We should never use torture. We should always use effective techniques that cause no physical or psychological harm like water-boarding.

Cato celebrates the Bush tax cuts. Why couldn't Bush and the Republican congress make them permanent before they were spanked for their outrageous spending? And why such small cuts instead of significant tax reform or better yet, adopting the FairTax. Rhetorical question. Cato claims there are only 50 serious budget reformers in the House. Maybe 1 or 2 in the Senate.

Cato says we should be wary of any deal with North Korea. Since we know that North Korea was secretly transferring either missile, nuclear technology, or both to Syria, we'd be fools to make another agreement with North Korea right now.

Cato suggests we offer Iran a grand bargain and allow them to develop the bomb if they refuse, relying on deterrence. I hope they're willing to volunteer to be nuked. Maybe they'll switch offices with people in Tel Aviv.

Cato says Schwarzenegger is wrong on California's heath care because it mandates coverage, just like Hillarycare 2.0. Republicans are nearly as bad in the short term, and just as bad in the long term, as Democrats.

Article suggests Microsoft abandon Vista. Microsoft has done more to cripple computing advancement than any entity in history. Let's hope this destroys it's monopoly on OSs.

Boortz expresses understandable outrage that San Francisco refused Marines the ability to film a recruiting commercial.