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The FCC has mandated that analog TV signals will no longer be sent, and the government is subsidizing the sale of digital TV converters, but most analog TV owners are unaware that their TVs are going to suddenly stop working. This is a microcosm of what's wrong with government. For no good reason, government creates a problem with a mandate. In an attempt so solve that problem, it creates more problems by subsidizing converters. But the government solutions to the government made problems suck, and most analog TV users are going to get screwed for no reason anyway. Switching from analog TV to digital, should be handled by the market with no government interference whatsoever. Every government interference in the free market does the exact same thing.

School doesn't ban lesbian pride T-shirt because they're letting the ACLU is set the guidelines for what speech is allowed in that school, and probably most others. School bans T-shirt supporting John Edwards. School bans T-shirt with anti-homosexual message. School bans a Christian T-shirt. What's wrong with this picture?

FBI building huge biometric database and working with employers on fingerprint data. All those people who complain about corporations are missing the boat because corporations are mostly just additional branches of government anymore. You can't tell where the government ends and the corporation begins. In a free market, this wouldn't be the case. This is really scary. We're sitting idly by while the government builds the all-seeing eye that will far more powerful than anything science fiction has envisioned.

The next logical step is cameras in your home to make sure you aren't breaking the law. If you aren't breaking the law, you have nothing to fear, right? We'll hear the beginning of that debate within 5 years.

US fertility rate rises to sustainable level. But our kids will be born into virtual prisons, and they'll be so indoctrinated, they won't care. That's the ultimate goal of the 2 parties and their accomplice press.

Big-government liberals and conservatives treasure stability above all, thus Putin is the man of the year. Stability should never be a goal unto itself, because it's always easier to force stability by taking away freedom. That's because freedom is dynamic and tumultuous. I'll take freedom over stability Putin's or Democrats' or Republicans' stability any day. That's not to say I support anarchy, or that freedom can arise in a vacuum. I don't, and it can't, but the goal should always be freedom, not just stability.

Harry Reid finally acknowledges the surge has helped Iraq. Better to flip-flop late than never.

What the Anna Nicole Smith case tells us about our justice system.

Fred Thompson's Waterloo in Iowa is his last, best hope.

Huckabee is ethically challenged, but not as much as the other Arkansas governor from Hope.

Bill and Hillary Clinton both embrace the term co-presidency. Once again trying to have it every which way, she's running on his moderate record while promoting raising taxes and huge expansions of government in every program she mentions. She's also telling people out of one side of her mouth that Bill won't have unusual power in her administration, but out of the other, she's calling him co-president. She's running on her record in Bill's administration, but he won't release the documents that would show us exactly what the record is. These people are the most successful grifters in history, but making the campaign about Bill's legacy is going to blow up in her face in the general election. Despite Bill's incredible charm and slickness, he never got 50% of the vote, and Hillary has all his bad qualities but none of his redeeming qualities.

Analysis shows how the FairTax will spur economic growth, but this guy's 3.5% annual projection is too low, as you can see by examining his statistics for Ireland.

Democrats do more damage to the US with their irresponsible allegations of torture (meaning waterboarding, not actual torture) than the waterboarding comes close to doing.

Sen. Tom Coburn blocks fast-track bills to insure the Senate actually debates them before voting. That makes sense to me, but Democrats and many Republicans don't like it.

Attorney General Mukasey says that telecom immunity is essential to security. Of course it is. If companies can be sued for helping US security at the request of the government, we might as well surrender now.

Petrocracy is a new term for petroleum funded autocracy which is poisoning the world thanks to our government which blocks drilling for domestic oil and making power plants with inexpensive alternative fuels.

Turkish planes bomb PKK in northern Iraq.

Excellent graphs showing the change in Iraqi violence and the effect of the surge over time. How come the mainstream media never presents this kind of info? Rhetorical question.

Ed Koch rips Al Gore for pushing to punish the US with penalties that will transfer wealth to developing country. Nice job, Ed.