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Snipers felt pressured to kill more of the enemy. I should hope so. Liberals don't like it. I think liberals already believe we should never kill the enemy, we should just talk to him until we're all dead. I think baiting is against the Geneva Convention, but since the terrorists aren't following the treaty nor are signatories, I don't know if our troops are restricted from baiting them.

Troops brought home after 729 days, 1 day short of earning college funding benefits. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence. If somebody did that in a misguided attempt to save money, that person should be fired and those troops should get the college benefit.

6 months ago, the Iranian government couldn't get more than a dozen people to protest outside the British embassy after kidnapping those British servicemen and woman. But after Columbia promoted Ahmadinejad in the eyes of the Iranians by first giving him a platform, then attacking him with no substance, making him look like hero facing the lion in his own den, 10s of thousands protest with Ahmadinejad against Israel. Nice job, Columbia. Way to generate a bunch of domestic support for the Mullahs just when their government was on the verge of crumbling from the inside.

Ethanol stocks are falling despite stupid government subsidies. We should discover effective alternative fuels instead of subsidizing ineffective ethanol.

Are the Olympics a trap for the communist Chinese government? I doubt it. They'll crush dissent before it can organize for the cameras, and even if pro-democracy reformers organize and are crushed for all the world to see, we'll forget it when we buy our next cheap Chinese T-shirt or DVD player.

Company develops high-tech meth scanner. I think they'll find that everybody has meth on their clothes, just like the high tech cocaine scanner found everybody had coke on their dollar bills. Imagine a cop walking down the street shooting this at people to see if they had trace amounts of meth on them, then using that as a probable cause for a search. This is extremely dangerous.

Falsely accused Duke lacrosse players sue Nifong and the city of Durham. Good for them. Government has a responsibility to ensure its officials operate ethically.

Al Gore continues to duck interviews because he knows he's lying through his teeth and he doesn't want his stunningly lucrative con exposed.

Chinese made Boy Scout Medals recalled because of high lead content. Is nothing sacred? Not even Boy Scout Medals? Obviously the Boy Scouts should get the most cost-effective medals they can for the good of their organization, but this just seems so wrong even without the high lead content. With the high lead content, it stirs up visions of the mean Chinese trying to poison our Boy Scouts. Fortunately, I'm not a liberal, so I don't let that kind of emotion interfere with my views on policy, but it seems pretty obvious that the hidden costs of products from China are not being considered when we decide where to buy from. If we have to test every product for safety, and we damn well better, then Chinese made goods aren't as cheap as they seem.

Just because some idiots didn't cook their hamburgers thoroughly enough, forcing a titanic recall, the nation's second largest supplier of meat has to declare bankruptcy. We've all learned that e coli is in beef, especially hamburger. You have to cook your hamburger medium at least to insure it gets killed. Sure, companies have safety procedures to limit the e coli, but it can be in any hamburger you buy, so citizens should cook their hamburgers enough. It seems Topps had a problem in controlling e coli, but if everybody had cooked their hamburgers thoroughly enough, nobody would have gotten sick, and Topps would still be in business.

Reason explains intangible wealth, measured by the World Bank of all organizations.

Reason interviews activist Oklahoma is persecuting for petitioning to limit government spending.

Democrats are organizing to fight talk radio. They've also organized to fight Republicans. It seems they've figured out that foaming at the mouth all the time isn't in their favor. They made a slick political move by trying to absurdly expand SCHIP just so they could win an excellent sound bite that will be effective until the next election.

While his wife, Hillary Clinton, is advocating the biggest move toward socialism in the history of the United States, Bill Clinton praises French President Sarkozy, supposedly for his "can-do" attitude. This is informative since Sarkozy beat France's socialist clone of Hillary, Chloe Sevigny, and advocates dramatic free market reform in France. Even Bill doesn't support Hillary's socialistic positions. I guess it's not surprising. Only a tiny minority of Americans support socialism.

Scientists extract rock from 2.5 miles deep in San Andreas fault.

Scientist is prepared to create first artificial life form. I've been wrong on every big, new technological trend in my life, and I have tons of monetary losses to prove it, so I'm probably wrong when I say, "So what?" People are going to be supplanted by computers with more computing capacity than our brains in 20 years or so. I guess if this scientist could develop a bug that kills most of us before then, it would affect history, but otherwise, he's going the wrong direction. Why do I care about about man-made viruses or new cells? The future lies in integrating people with machines, or having machines treat us as ants, algae, or worse. I prefer to integrate.

Don't get me wrong. This work could help people who might otherwise die from genetic diseases in that time, including me for all I know. But in the long run, machines will write the histories, not people as we know them. Better to be part of the machine than part of the natural history museum like dinosaurs.

I don't even want to contemplate how wimpy and twisted this sounds: US conciliatory over missile defense program. That's right. We're apologizing for protecting Europe from nuclear missiles.

Far right Republicans beholden to abortion rights rule out 3rd party run. This shows the caustic effects of Roe-v-Wade on the nation. A huge number of voters on both sides live and die by the litmus test of abortion, and that issue swamps national elections. We should overturn Roe-v-Wade, return abortion as an issue the states where it belongs, so the nation can become receptive to the other issues that face us.

No other issue in America, not even the Iraq war, is so divisive.

Nobody should have to set aside their principles - that's how government got away from us to begin with. Removing abortion from the national stage would be a great first step towards taking back control of our government for the people.

Robert Novak reports that House minority leader Boehner supports his leaders despite corruption. Boehner is one of the architects of the Bush/Rove/Congress' doubling of the size of government. He's part of the problem, and as long as he's in charge of Republicans, they have no credibility, and for good reason.

Larry Kudlow describes Bernanke's flip-flop, raising the money supply to offset the housing crash and bank foreclosures. This is another example of a managed economy failing before it succeeds. Money supply should be managed by the free market, not some socialistic organization like the Fed.