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Dept. of Homeland Security to use spy satellites on US. I guess that's how Democrats convinced Bush to go along with creating the DHS - so both parties could have an excuse to spy on Americans.

Swedes are so indoctrinated in socialism and the welfare state that 2 Swedish champion athletes propose that all top athletes get embedded GPS chips so authorities can monitor their every move. This just shows what propaganda and environment can do to the human mind. We're moving to the left so fast in America that generation after generation think nothing of surrendering ever more freedom to government until there won't be any left to surrender. Welfare, socialized medicine, global warming, government schools, unaccountable bureaucracies, and so on. Both parties are dragging us to the left, down the path to tyranny. It's hard to see how we can stop this, but it has to start with kicking both Republicans and Democrats out of power, or we're finished.

Guantanamo prisoner released into UK custody was freed on bail. You have to be kidding me. This guy will go right back to recruiting terrorists. This is why we shouldn't let them out of of Guantanamo. That's like letting German soldiers go free during WWII.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, Congress passes law clarifying records necessary for states to submit for instant background checks to purchase guns. On this surface, this sounds great, but it's very odd I never of heard of this bill before today. I don't trust any gun control legislation or any stealth legislation, and this is both. Even thought NRA supposedly supports it, there's something bad in this bill.

Lakota Indians withdrawal from US treaties. This is an interesting move. Obviously the US renigged on plenty of treaties with native Americans, and what's good for the goose is good for the gander. The timing may work for them. They don't have to worry about the US military exterminating them anymore. Given our strong public support for destructive multi-culturalism, public opinion will probably be behind them as long as they don't do anything stupid. The US should formulate some policy to nip this in the bud before it spreads to other tribes. We should offer them a deal, and if they reject it, we should probably just take their land and deport them the same as other gate-crashers. I'm sure Venezuela or Cuba would take them in. That'll stop any other tribes from trying the same.

India and China in joint military games. This is not good. If India joins China and Russia in their new Cold War of Terror against the US, we'll be in an even bigger world of hurt. We need India on our side. This is why we have to acknowledge this new Cold War so we can implement policies to win it, including winning India to our side.

400 scientists, some in the IPCC, speak out against the man-made global warming fraud. Facts are destroying the myth of a scientific consensus, which is meaningless anyway except as an attempt to mislead the public.

The economy grew at 4.9% in the 3rd quarter. That number has to be an artifact of the falling dollar. It's can't possibly be measured in real value. Sure, we may have 4.9% more dollars, but that's because those dollars are worth a lot less than even the quarter before.

Mohammad now second most popular boy's name in Britain.

Reason notes that one of Reagan's great legacies, though they don't give him credit, is the spread of freedom around the world. But that virtually stopped during the Clinton administration and is now backsliding under Bush.

Reason sums up the complexity of the illegal immigration problem. The choices we have are between status quo economically and standing for principle and the rule of law. The economy will adapt when the illegal aliens self-deport because they can find no jobs. Americans and legal immigrants will fill the best of those jobs. Some jobs will disappear for a while. The economy will quickly adapt. The rule of law will never recover if we grant them amnesty, and 60 million more will soon flood the country. There is no choice, really, so there's no reason for paralysis.

Small, commercial nuclear reactors. Wow.

This reviewer must be an idiot. When I saw Blade Runner in 1982, it was the best movie I'd ever seen as an adult, and it still is. It may be the last movie I ever saw at a drive-in. To this day, the only movies I prefer to watch are The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More that I fell in love with as a kid. The vision that went into Blade Runner is still unsurpassed. The contrast of the beautiful and the ugly in the characters and the environment are exceptional. The world is a character unto itself, and it would swallow characters from other movies whole, but not the characters in Blade Runner, because they are possibly the most human characters in any movie ever. The replicants are enthralling as well as truly frightening, as much for their humanity as their monstrosity. The question of what it is to be human is the most fundamental question we face going into the future, and it's contrasted with an atmosphere that pays homage to the classic 40s gumshoe movies. What a fantastic movie. And the acting is superb.

Scientist claims to have determined the age of the solar system to within 2,000,000 years.

Cato claims that unfunded state and local government pension plans could amount to $1.4 trillion.

Cato explains that cutting vehicle weight is the easiest way to improve gas mileage, so emissions requirements make vehicles less safe. Wonderful.