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Because the US government uses non-standard accounting procedures to make it's budget appear better than it actually is, the budget deficit is actually 69% higher than government reports. This still doesn't include the unfunded liabilities in social security, medicare and other entitlements.

Putin will become Medvedev's Prime Minister. The fix is in. Russia delivers non-weapon's grade enriched uranium to Iran for power plant.

Bali negotiator breaks down in tears. If you have no facts on your side, I guess you have to break down into tears to invoke sympathy and emotion in order to get your way. This frauds are pathetic, and we better never fall for their con.

A world bank study using different methods of measuring economies shows that China is the second largest economy, having surpassed Japan, but that it was 40% smaller than estimated with other methods. I guess that means Japan's even that much smaller.

Iraq will need foreign troops to help secure the country for 10 more years. That seems too long to me. That would be 15 years total.

Saudi King pardons imprisoned rape victim.

Central American gangs are adopting sports coats and the college look to hide from cops and vigilantes. This is a scary trend that will spread to the US in no time. Gang looks is the one thing that Americans could count on to identify them and be prepared to protect themselves.

Democrat filibusters Telecom immunity. These companies answered the call when asked to by the president to help their country during wartime, and Democrats want to punish them for it. That's just crazy.

Ron Paul's Tea Party money bomb raises over $6 million in one day.

San Francisco mayor wants to tax sugary drinks. It's so hard to see a way for us to save ourselves. We've surrendered so much freedom that it's become de rigour to just give it all away. And it will never be enough for the liberals. Even when we all live in personal bubbles that are regulated by government and inspected and we have to file a daily agenda with the government and ask permission for everything we want to say, it still won't be enough. We brainwash each successive generation into think the freedom we gave up last generation was OK. You always here that. "Nothing terrible happened." That standard is destroying us.

Scientists think they can create life by synthesizing DNA. Just what we need. Scientists accidentally releasing artificial viruses.

Cato decry's Sec. Rice's acceptance of Putin's handpicked successor after a fraudulent election.

Fortunately the woman who shot the murderer at the church was not a government approved security guard, because Colorado Springs only allows government approved security guards to carry revolvers. It took 10 shots, 4 hits, from her semi-automatic 9mm Beretta to bring down the assassin before he finally killed himself. Armed citizens save lives. Gun control is stupid, and it gets people killed. We see it over and over. You can't help but have the utmost respect for this woman with her 9mm who took down a determined assassin armed with an Ak-47 as well as several handguns. Good job!

Benazer Bhutto says the bomb that was used to attack her motorcade when she returned to Pakistan was strapped to a baby. As I've often said, the war on terror will be over when Muslim women decide they care more about their babies than blowing people up. I know most Muslim women already feel that way, but far too many don't.

Weird reality show called "Make Me a Muslim" premiers tonight.

Dinesh D'souza understands that history will be kinder to Bush than popular opinion, and if we succeed in Iraq, he will go down as a great president who withstood the slings and arrows of Democrats and Republicans alike to make the world a better place.

Robert Novak reports how Senate minority leader McConnell is caving to Democrats on an omnibus spending bill, using the excuse of compromising to get Iraq war funding. In fact, the goal of this compromise is to load up the bill with an incredible number of earmarks, using a technique to get around the bogus new earmark rules that Congress never intended to follow anyway.

Another story about how Gen. Petraeus and our troops turned the situation in Iraq around.

The US needs a Civilian Reserve Corp to work beside the military in conflicts. The task of rebuilding nations was originally supposed to be managed by the State Dept. and involve experts and cooperation from every bureaucracy in America. But from the time of the Marshall and ever since, our bureaucracies have failed to work together and therefore been horribly ineffective. Iraq is just the latest example. A Civilain Reserve Corp would have one leader, so it could work more effectively. But we shouldn't let our other bureaucracies off the hook for their failures. They should be abolished, and the few organizations necessary to carry out Constitutional powers built from the ground up.

Then they came for Mark Steyn.

I'm all for Gen. Petraeus becoming Time's man of the year.

Entertaining story of a citizen-diplomat who tried to help Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger capture Osama bin Laden in the 90s, but were rebuffed.

Muslim man defends Jew against Christians in New York.

Whoopie Goldberg wants to abolish the death tax. Not only is this double taxation, but taxes are supposed to be payment for government services. What government service does a dead person get?

Interesting description of how the tenets of multi-culturalism lead to the conclusion that western, heterosexual, Christian, white men are not allowed to defend themselves from any attack because they deserve it since they victimized everybody else in the world.

Jet from super-massive blackhole at center of large galaxy blasts through smaller galaxy.