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Intelligence official says Americans must surrender our privacy. No thanks.

Supreme Court may hear gun control case. The real story is that anybody in the US who can read thinks gun control is legal.

Iraq announces that security contractors will have no immunity from Iraqi law. How did we get this legal confusion in the first place. They should either have diplomatic immunity or not. There should be no question about it. But better yet, the US should not hire contractors to protect it's personnel and convoys. That's reminiscent of Rome before it fell.

Bush to keep talking with Iran. I guess that's because it's worked so well so far. I have no problem with talking with anybody, enemy or not. I have a problem with appeasing our enemies.

US holds Iraqi prisoners condemned to death, but Iraq hasn't finished its own legal process.

Pakistani President Musharraf moves up election date to Jan. 9th.

The US waterboards its own military personnel so they will understand the experience. We do not burn, electrocute, cut, beat, use pliers or otherwise torture them. Waterboarding is not torture. It's ridiculous we waterboard our own people but not terrorists. That's just dumb. I hope like this guy, that terrorists feel like they're being tortured so they give us more accurate intelligence quicker. It doesn't matter what they "feel like." What matters is the result: they're just fine and we get the information we want.

We should adopt a Constitutional amendment banning spouses of Presidents from becoming President. We need to nip this dynasty by name association in the bud.

Ron Paul's Philadelphia Freedom event picture coverage.

John McCain should keep his mom out of his campaign. That's just sleazy.

The UN urges that we ban cloning. Preposterous. This is a case of the have nots trying to limit that haves. Human cloning is going to happen whether we ban it or not. Better to have the work done in an open, peer reviews and publicly observed fashion so that all people have a say in the process and the ethics than to have it done in somebody's basement insulated from any greater ethical considerations.

Did we really need an article to tell us Microsoft is threatened by Google?

OpenDocument Foundation mysteriously closes up shop. Weird. I hope this doesn't hurt OpenOffice and StarOffice.

Mozilla is becoming dependent on Google. That's not a good thing.