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Creator of Ron Paul currency stands firm against FBI.

The Pentagon makes an about face and rescinds demand that wounded soldier return part of his bonus. That's not good enough. Whoever authorized this demand in the first place should be fired.

Oil over $99. Dollar sets new record low. Record Thanksgiving travel despite all this. The economy must be going good for now. It can't last.

Train sabotage in French transportation strike. This is what entitlements do to some people. They become so twisted by their entitlement, they go far as to turn dangerous when threatened with having to work for a living. Welfare appeals so strongly to our 4 billion year old genetic disposition to take the easy way out that it damages people and societies.

Corrupt Jacques Chirac is being investigated for embezzlement. I hope the investigation goes a lot further, includes the UN oil for food scandal and takes that crook down hard.

Iraqi refugees are returning home at the rate of 1,000 a day. That's fantastic. Killing the bad guys in Iraq and providing security was the best plan to take care of the refugees anybody could come up with. While the left was fighting to defeat our troops and allow Iraq to degenerate into ethnic cleansing, they were also attacking America for not taking care of the refugees. Once again, they were wrong on both counts. This war could have been practically over already if the country had united behind victory and the left proposed alternate plans for victory instead of trying to defeat us. Once again, Bush has taken another issue from the anti-war Democrats and turned it to his favor. Democrats are their own worst enemy.

Bush defends Pakistani president Musharraf. It's about time. Musharraf has done a fine job, not a perfect job, of walking a tightrope in Pakistan. Musharraf to quit army job, maybe by Saturday.

Legal history of the Second Amendment. Students continue to protest for right to bear arms for self-defense on campus.

Petraeus adviser explains how the tribal uprising in Iraq does not fit in any standard counterinsurgency strategy, and he explains Gen. Petraeus' plan.

Twisted story of a sheriff's deputy who shot family's dog. What kind of deputy goes out and kills a family dog that isn't threatening anybody? What kind of dog owners would allow a cop to shoot their dog? What kind of dog owners would let their injured dog lay for 3 days before noticing it was alive? What kind of investigation does the sheriff's office have to do? Just charge the deputy with trying to kill the dog under color of law. Everything about this story is wrong except for the happy ending that the dog survived. Hopefully he'll get end up with a better family.

Because of lax immigration policies and multi-culturalism, the Dutch are losing their identity.

The UN has no credibility when it denies intentionally inflating estimates of African AIDS cases.

How stupid is it to remove gender from ID cards? Only in San Francisco. SNL's Pat must be very happy.

Scott McClelland's excerpt claiming that Bush lied to him about his involvement in the Plame non-affair is making waves. Yesterday I read an except, and McClelland had no evidence of a lie at all, but today, that except is gone. It seemed McClelland felt he had been lied to once Libby and Rove's name were mentioned, but it sounded like a misunderstanding to me. We know for a fact it wasn't Libby or Rove who outed Plame. It was Richard Armitage. But the left won't let this go despite the facts. Slate comments. McClelland says he didn't mean to imply that Bush lied to him. It never sounded like that in the excerpt I read anyway, but liberals just twisted what he said. That's I get for failing to link the original article.

Reason wonders why a few gambling addicts should ruin online gambling for everyone. Because government got involved.

The FairTax and Christian conservatives have pushed Huckabee into second place in Iowa. Because of his support for the FairTax, he's better than anybody but Ron Paul. Other than his support for the FairTax, he's a typical, Bush-like, big-government conservative. As are all the rest. Huckabee catches Romney in Iowa.

Aricebo Observatory funding reduced by about 20%, not slashed. If only we could reduce the entire federal budget that much.

Substitute teacher undresses from the waist down in front of 4th graders. But was she hot?

Students suspended and sent to a drug program for making anti-drug PSA in which they pretended to do drugs.

Supposedly hate crimes have increased by 8%. The government has an agenda to make us think hate crimes are a problem, so they change the reporting. The motive of the crime does not matter. A man mugger filled with hate or greed is still a mugger.

California thinks that blacks and Hispanics do more poorly in schools because teachers don't understand their culture. Teachers do not need to understand other cultures to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and science. The problem is the students aren't interested in learning them, which is a problem for their families to solve.

Los Angeles blames obese children on lack of parks for the poor. If children don't have a safe place to play outside, that's a big problem. But it's not an excuse for obesity.

Good news from Iraq. Statistics on reduced violence.

Thomas Sowell shows how individuals in the lowest income bracket in the US increase their wealth and move up to another bracket. Real income is increasing. He explains how liberals twist statistics to make it appear that the poor have no upward mobility. Another great, easy to understand, column.

Al Gore has found a way to make even more money off of his global warming con, punishing new taxes, and the taxpayer subsidies he pushes by joining a new venture firm promoting green energy. Life is good when you can con half the world like Al Gore.

Study shows it was hotter 1,000 years ago than today. This won't surprise anybody with a working brain. The liberals won't believe it no matter what.