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US hands over 8th of 18 provinces to Iraqi security. Another al Qaeda suicide bomb went off, reminding us that we haven't defeated al Qaeda in Iraq yet. Chalabi has a new role trying get the Iraqi government to provide services to the people. It just goes to show how big a mistake we made empowering that idiot government before democratic institutions were in place. They're as bad as our government.

The US is pressuring Europe to follow our lead on sanctioning Iran. Duh.

Oil is likely to hit 1979 high in real dollars. Gold approaches $800. Dollar at new low against Euro. This is a daily report anymore.

Saudi King criticizes UK for not doing enough to fight terrorism. Wow. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

Argentinian First Lady, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, elected to succeed her husband. This is obviously a new, world-wide phenomenon. It's a way around term limits and should be addressed as such.

Israel has the same problem with the court stupidly interfering in foreign policy that the US does. Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government to show reason why it will implement sanctions on Gaza. I guess the daily rocket attacks from Gaza aren't enough.

Somali Prime Minister resigns amid violence. Japanese ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia.

Reason discusses Democrats' desire to amend the Constitution for campaign finance reform. John McCain didn't bother amending the Constitution to pass his unconstitutional campaign finance law. Democrats can't pass the simplest legislation, let alone a constitutional amendment.

I don't care about Sarkozy's divorce. I want to know about his reform policies and how he's managing to implement them in ultra-liberal France. 60 minutes should have focused on the issues, not tabloid journalism. If they wanted an interview about celebrity divorce, they could have interviewed Brittany Spears.

Forecasts of another heavy hurricane season were wrong again. And these same people think CO2 is causing global warming. Pfft.

I've blistered liberals for decades because they push their agenda through manipulative emotionalism and inaccurate sound bites instead of reason because no reasonable person would support their socialist, anti-American policies, so I didn't need an internal memo to prove it, but here it is anyway. As if the Democrats' problem was they weren't emotional enough or focused on sound bites enough. It's funny that the examples in this article show accurate Republican sound bites but promote an inaccurate Democratic sound bite as if accuracy doesn't matter. Democrat leaders probably believe emotionally that accurately reflecting policies with sound bites doesn't matter. It's the socialist policies, stupid!

Hillary Clinton voted most scary of the presidential candidates with over twice as many votes as 2nd place Giuliani. No doubt.

Democrats haven't tried to buy votes by offering everybody a million dollars yet. Wait for it.

Children of mothers who smoked in the womb 3x more likely to be obese. This article guesses that it's because of malnutrition of the embryo or fetus from smoking, but I bet it's more likely because the mother is irresponsible, inattentive, and unconcerned about her child - otherwise, she would not have smoked while pregnant.

Christopher Hitchens says the US should be squeezing Turkey, not the other way around. He forgets the first law of diplomacy, you have to have a position of power. Bush put us in a position of weakness all around the world, and Pelosi has made it worse. Right now, we need Turkey more than they need us. We need to rethink our entire foreign policy based on repositioning ourselves into positions of power.