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Saddam faked having weapons of mass destruction because he figured the US would never invade, but he was afraid the Iranians would.

Iraq PM Maliki promises to wipe out al Qaeda in Iraq. I should hope so.

Gazans and Egyptians in contest to tear down / rebuild wall between them.

How elitist do you have to be to think that somebody offering to loan money to another is a predator? As if the person taking the loan shouldn't be allowed to make those decisions for himself. He needs government to make those decision for him. The whole concept of predatory loans is elitist and insulting.

Gold and platinum at record highs.

Reason profiles libertarian Republican Paul Broun from Georgia.

I heard this whisper in the debate last night, but I didn't realize it was a whisper. I thought something was wrong with Russert's voice as he finished the question, but I guess not. Comments on the debate.

The NYTimes has endorsed Hillary Clinton and John McCain. In a sane world, that would end McCain's candidacy. It shows just how much of a big-government autocrat he is.

The Clintons will keep Bill on the attack. It makes Barack Obama have to fight Bill while Hillary can appear to be above the fray. Bill's status as ex-President makes this unfair and endangers the democratic process.

Ron Paul reveals his economic plan. Abolishing the personal income tax is hidden under the capital gains reform. He mentions getting rid of punishing corporate taxes in his summary, but I don't see it in his detail.

Cato explains how a mortgage bailout would encourage Americans to default on loans. The government should do the same thing it should do even without the subprime issue - dramatically reduce the size and scope of government, adopt the FairTax, and cut the tax rates.

The Motley Fool has finally taken my advice and written off Microsoft.

Teenager attempts to hijack plane with handcuffs, clothesline, and duct tape, and fly plane into site of Hannah Montana concert. This sounds like a serious case of puppy love scorned.

Belichick and the Patriots are playing games with the media regarding Tom Brady.

If you think standard biological weapons are scary, how about life-forms designed and built from scratch in a lab to whatever specifications the mad scientist chooses.

Peggy Noonan observes the split in the Democrats and Republicans.

Boehner asks Republicans to fight against earmarks for a year. This is a joke. While earmarks are a potent symbol of all that's wrong in Washington, it's only a drop in the bucket. Attacking a symbol is symbolic, not meaningful. And they're only doing it for a year so they can fool voters into thinking they're different from Democrats. This is the kind of underhanded, duplicitous tactic both parties have mastered to fool Americans to continue voting for them while they continue destroying the nation for their own benefit.

Chimp beats world memory champion in test. It doesn't sound as much like a memory test as a perception test. Apparently the chimp recognized the numbers and placements in less time.

Bizarre UK suicide town.

Patent office grants patent for smartphone, and company immediately sues everybody. I wrote up a patent on this about 10 years ago, but never filed it. It seemed too generic. I guess I should hunt it down and sue the company that won the patent.

Hillary Clinton has the most earmarks to buy votes of any presidential candidate.

Study shows that conservatives are far more tolerant of liberals than vice-versa. This is no surprise to anybody who read a newspaper in the last 40 years.

Fantastic insight into Washington politics using Hillary Clinton's first health care debacle as an example. The raw hubris and scorn for the American people shines through.

Blocking drilling in ANWR would cost the USA $3 trillion. That's OK with liberals because the poor will pay for it by sending their money to Ahmadinejad and Chavez among others.

Iowa Legislature begins with Muslim presenting anti-American prayer.

JG keeps trying to tell me that women are as smart as men. Fortunately, I'm an exception.

We have a temporary reprieve from the surveillance society. Martin County won't use surveillance cameras that talk back to stop people from having sex on the beach. I know where I'm planning my next vacation.

Mickey Kaus puts Mexico's complaint about Mexicans coming to Mexico in perspective - another country is complaining about the influx of Mexicans.

Charles Krauthammer gives John Edwards too much credit when he suggests Edwards is an angry hypocrite.

Lawrence Kudlow exposes Bill Gates' ignorance of the transformative nature of capitalism and economic freedom. Gates looks at poor places that don't have capitalism and blames capitalism. Gates had a smart idea, and he milked it to amazing heights by using marketing and leveraging monopoly power, but he never made a good product. He's like the Hugo Chavez of technology. It doesn't necessarily take brains to be tremendously successful.

Pat Buchanan blasts John McCain, and he's right on every issue except free trade. Ann Coulter lambastes John McCain. The Democrats are going to run a socialist, so Republicans shouldn't run a liberal.

Jonah Goldberg says that Cloverfield is a horror movie that also symbolizes the end of innocence and the end of America. He piqued my interest.