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Chicago passes outdoor smoking ban for parks, beaches and playgrounds. These power-hungry jerks won't stop when smoking is banned everywhere. We have to realize this is not about smoking. It's the power of activists to tyrannize a minority. They will find a new issue when they've worn the smoking issue out.

What else would anybody expect other than that the Communist Chinese would establish communism in space? They're communists, and they plan on making everybody communist. And we're helping them.

China says Bush's award to Dalai Lama gravely affected relations between the US and China. What are they doing to do, partner with Russia and start waging a new Cold War of Terror against us? Maybe they'll start bribing our politicians, develop intelligence capabilities greater than the Soviets during the Cold War and steal our technology, develop a comprehensive computer hacking system and hack our computers continuously for over a year, stealing whatever information they can, stalk our submarines, knock down our airplanes, gain strategic control of the Panama Canal, shoot down satellites, provide weapons and economic, technological, and diplomatic support to proxies like North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela so those nations can drain our resources, fix their currency and carry out predatory trade practices with us, and dump sub-par and poisonous goods on our consumers.

Oh, wait. They're already doing all of that.

Iraq awards power plant contracts to Iran and China. This is what we get for installing a government of warlords before establishing Democrat institutions. Even if we win in Iraq, the government will hate us because of all the bullying we did after installing them.

French strike tests Sarkozy's commitment to reform.

At current levels, Atlanta has 81 days until it runs out of water. Nice job, government.

Because we recognized this bill was really an attempt to undermine our troops in Iraq, the public forced Nancy Pelosi to back off her Turkey genocide bill. Another victory for the people over government. We can do it. We need to do it continuously for decades to undo the damage our government has done to freedom and to us in the last century.

Bush veto of SCHIP survives House vote. The challenge is for Republicans to overcome the sound bite politics Democrats are playing with this issue. Americans don't want taxpayers to subsidize middle class families health insurance, but that doesn't make for a very good sound bite, unlike "Republicans are taking insurance from poor children." Republicans chance to win this issue is to submit a compromise that just covers poor children but not middle class children. By doing that, they can can take charge of this issue, because otherwise it will honestly be Democrats who are taking insurance from poor children.

New FISA bill will include immunity for Telecoms who assisted the government as well it should, and it will also allow intelligence agents to listen in on overseas terrorists without a warrant. The Republicans are beating Pelosi like a drum because she's making stupid decisions exposing how terrible Democrat policies are.

The Air Force may file charges in case of mistakenly flown nukes. If it was a mistake, how could they fail to file charges? If it wasn't a mistake, how could they file charges? Interesting.

Screener miss 75% of fake bombs at LAX. Government in action. Only 20% were missed in San Francisco, protected by private security.

Analysis of al Qaeda's nuclear ambitions.

Slate's American Lawbreaking series wraps up with an article on illegal immigration.

Mexican with highly virulent form of TB has crossed the Mexican-US border 76 times.

Kansas City Planned Parenthood charged with 23 felony counts of providing illegal abortions. You would think, after all the publicity around that Planned Parenthood, they would have paid close attention to the law. This will get ugly.

Maine middle school offering contraceptives to students as young as 11.

California Democrat Pete Stark says Bush sends troops to Iraq to get their heads blown off for his amusement. And the left complains about Ann Coulter. The double-standard is as sickening as Stark's comment.

Reason on Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and the line-item veto.

Hillary is trying to confuse the issue about polluter pays. The polluter already pays for cleanup of toxic sites through the courts. The government sues them. The tax has nothing to do with pollution or cleanup. It's just an additional tax in addition to the polluter pays. This woman is takes dishonesty to a new level, even for politicians.

Hillary Clinton's new entitlement of the day: subsidize stay at home mothers. The husbands of those stay at home mothers, and the income earners for all of the objects of all her entitlements, will lose income to pay for these entitlements. By the time she's done, nobody will bother working, and we'll all be broke in short order. It's easy to sell entitlements because every wants one, but entitlements have to be paid for. They're pseudo-rights because they're protected by government, but since they demand work from others, they're not rights at all. Hillary is the best vote buyer I've ever seen. That must be her strategy to overcome her negatives.

If Hillary buys just 1% additional votes in every group that currently hates her, she'll win. Hillary's daily new entitlement is her strategy to make tiny inroads into those negative voters. Even Hillary knows she can't deliver on these ridiculous promises, but that's immaterial. All that matters is that she get elected. She'll promise everybody an entitlement and promise to sell her mother to pay for it before it's over. She just needs 5% or so total to overcome her negatives. It's a proven strategy because it seduces people with lies.

Scientists find earlier evidence for modern humans than previously expected.

Study discovers short-guy syndrome. Duh.

I would love to see a huge empty holster protest on college campuses. My guess is this will fizzle.

Liberal writer condemns Iraqi translators for helping US and British forces and applauds the terrorists targeting innocents.