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Scientists concerned that solar minimum may signal return to the climate from the little ice age. It's the sun, stupid. Al Gore's agenda is just to make money for himself while pushing the new communism on the rest of us.

Court upholds Arizona law targeting businesses that hire illegal aliens. As it should. But with our corrupted courts, there was no guarantee.

Liberals up in arms because the FBI is preparing companies on how to deal with martial law. This is in case a nuclear bomb goes off in an American city, which is a very real possibility in the foreseeable future. If the government hadn't made such preparations, the public would excoriate them for that after a disaster. Better to be prepared so we can limit the damage and return to normal as soon as possible.

Archbishop of Canterbury proposes adopting aspects of Sharia law for Muslims.

US warns Iran not to develop advanced centrifuges for nuclear enrichment. Iran doesn't care about our warnings. They know we're impotent right now.

Russia to build new high-tech weapons to keep up with arms race.

Fundamentalists Muslims torturing and killing women in Basra for violations of Islamic teachings. This is a challenge to the government to stop this now that they're in charge of Basra.

Kosovo to declare independence from Serbia. In case anybody forgot, we've had US troops there for about 10 years. In a contrast with Afghanistan, if violence breaks out, it may galvanize NATO nations to project power in Kosovo, but they will remove forces from Afghanistan. If this happens, it will just highlight that NATO is nothing but security welfare provide by the US to Europe. Because of that security welfare, Europe is short-sighted and unwilling to pay for longer-term security. They know the US will provide it. Until we cut them off.

Reason wants us to believe that the chances of terrorists managing to blow up an American city with a nuclear bomb are vanishingly small. Where there's a will, and plenty of money, there's a way. And the terrorists have plenty of will and money. Reason relies on assumptions, not reason, in this analysis.

Reason doesn't want Congress to expand wire-tap powers. Both sides of this issue are intellectually dishonest, and the issue is overcomplicated because of it. First, the president has the Constitutional responsibility to intercept communications enemies or suspected sympathizers during a war. No law can change that. You would have to amend the Constitution to change that. Second, the president must get a warrant for any wiretaps that's don't involve enemies or suspected sympathizers during war. Third, Congress can end the war on terror if it wants to stop warrantless wiretaps. This is pretty simple, and we don't government and the press complicating it.

Georga wants to annex part of Tennessee to get water. It sounds like Ohio versus Michigan all over again. Maybe they're raise militias and raid each other's territory.

It's a good thing that approval ratings can't go any lower than zero, because both Bush and Congress set new record lows.

Rush Limbaugh considers raising money for Hillary to help her beat Obama so that McCain can then beat her in November. This is just getting silly.

Obama calls for Hillary to release tax returns. Absolutely. I want to know how the Clintons amassed $90 million in a few years of politics.

This is not the Lost formula, but there's a lot of truth to it anyway.

Mickey Kaus highlights McCain's contempt for conservatives and the double-speak inherent in his suck-up speech at CPAC. I know the press wants McCain to win, and therefore has projected him as the winner, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Romney voters go to Huckabee, and Huckabee to beat McCain in the next few primaries at least.

Cato recognizes that Mitt Romney's big-government positions contradicted his lip-service to being a conservative. Romney recognized that conservatives pay lip-service to smaller government every election, but never mean it. What Romney learned was that conservatives don't want a candidate who does the same as them. They want a professed big-government candidate instead.

IBM proposes 1 computer to host entire internet. Asimov's Multivac (or later, Microvac) is close to reality. Let there be light.