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Report claims police brutality is up 25% since 9/11. I believe it.

House approves domestic spending and spending for the war in Afghanistan, but no funding for the war in Iraq. This is the first step of the Republican cave-in on domestic spending and thousands of earmarks reported by Robert Novak.

Wheat prices reach record high. World food supplies shrinking. The price is going up, so more people will grow more food.

300 Turkish troops raid PKK stronghold in northern Iraq.

Israel's intelligence on Iran is pretty much the same as ours. Just the conclusions are different. This shows that these conclusions are subjective, and our NIE was an attempt to set policy.

Palestinian terrorists threaten retribution because Israel killed a terrorist leader. The irony of these claims can't be ignored. The terrorists kill Israelis, and if Israel fights back, the terrorists promise to kill Israelis in retaliation. Israel should mobilize its entire army and capture or kill every terrorist in Gaza. If it did that, no more terrorists in Gaza would kill Israelis. If more terrorists moved in they, could repeat the process.

Reason suggests that guest worker programs may be the best hope for world's poor to climb out of poverty. Economic freedom in their home countries is the best hope.

Reason defines 3 major strategies being applied to win the Republican party.

This Huckabee ad is something else. The shelves in the back have to be engineered to appear as a cross floating behind his head. And it's great to be religious, Christian churches are one of the keystone institutions of America, but this guy is shoving it down our throats.

Ron Paul quotes Sinclair Lewis saying, "When fascism comes to the US, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." That's a pretty good description of FDR and his fascist-inspired New Deal programs. Naturally the press will try to make it out that Ron Paul called Mike Huckabee a fascist, though he did not. But other than Huckabee's support for the FairTax, he's the worst of the conservative socialists.

Bill Clinton tries a low blow by claiming that Hillary would employ Bush the Elder to help repair the international relations damage done by Bush the Younger, implying that Bush the Elder doesn't support his son. This will likely blow back on Hillary.

Bloomberg looking for advisers. I hope he doesn't run. To him, the US would be just another toy to play with.

Monkeys do addition surprisingly well. Wow.

Cato explains how bailouts change the behavior of those taking risk for the worse.

Cato explains how another Republican, Schwarzenegger, gets it wrong with his socialist health care plan.

Judge orders investigation of destroyed CIA tapes. Orders investigation? Judges are supposed to adjudicate disputes. They have no power to order investigations.

EU proposes new rules to allow citizens to get health care abroad. But government will pay for it. If they ask permission in advance. This just shows how wrong socialized medicine is. First, it can't take care of the people. Second, it taxes all its citizens and sends that money overseas to treat people it can't treat itself. Third, it demands patients ask permission to go overseas, get treatment and get compensated. In every possible way, this is just wrong. Britain's NHS threatens to cut off free care for woman if she buys additional drugs to fight cancer. Once we get socialized medicine, we'll have to ask government permission to go to the bathroom.

The communists masquerading as environmentalists just keep getting bolder. This one claims that carbon quotas are the only possible solution, and must be implemented against the will of the people. I don't think Stalin ever used carbon dioxide as an excuse to dominate and kill people, so there maybe there is something new under the sun, even for communists.

Egregious case of bending over backwards for Muslims. It's getting worse every day. Muslims should be treated exactly the same as everybody else. They can go to the non-denominational chapel, not divided by sex, and pray like everybody else. They can keep their feet out of the sinks like everybody else. Why are we changing our way of life for anybody? It's their job to melt in the American melting pot. It's not our job to change for them.

Mike Adams provides humorous and compelling support for the FairTax.

Columnist remembers Jane Fonda's treason on her 70th birthday. Good for him.

Bush suggests continuing resolution, but I don't think he'll veto McConnell and Reid's 12,000 earmark bill because it will fund the troops. That's where Bush's legacy lies, not in standing firm against earmarks.

Despite being a Kyoto signatory, Norway's CO2 emissions grew by 80% since 1990. No worries. Only the US will be held to account if it ever signs any stupid global warming treaty.

Fear of spiders and monsters (lions and tigers and bears, oh my) are ingrained in our brains in Yungian archetypes, so it's not surprising that children in Australia fear them more than terrorists. A few years of TV can't surpass millions of years of evolution.