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US reports that Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar are in Pakistan.

Iran's launch of a space rocket has finally forced even Moscow to admit that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Even Putin is more reasonable than liberals. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell updated the rogue NIE report released last December, making it clear that US intelligence understands that Iran is doing everything it can to develop a nuclear weapon. The only thing that rogue NIE report accomplished was exposing US intelligence and State Dept. officials as irresponsible, partisan agents, casting even more doubt on already tarnished organizations. We should build new intelligence agencies and a new State Dept. from the ground up and abolish these existing Cold War era rogue dinosaurs.

Memo calls the State Dept. effort in Iraq willfully negligent if not criminal. The implication is that this is Crocker's fault, but it's not. The problem is the State Dept. is a titanic, unaccountable bureaucracy like every other US government bureaucracy, and it should abolished and a small, effective, accountable department created to replace it. And that department should have an expiration date where it will be replaced by another new department.

Turkey ends headscarf ban at universities. Banning headscarfs makes no sense to me. Why can't people who want to wear them, like Muslim women, wear them?

Report shows that Sharia courts already exist in Britain. What a mistake. An entirely separate system of justice for one group of people.

Russian aggression is going to get somebody killed and start an international incident.

Slate explains that the roots of NATO's problems in Afghanistan, an unwillingness by many nations to fight, were negotiated up front.

US updates army manual with emphasis on winning hearts and minds. As long as that doesn't hinder us from killing the enemy, that's a good thing.

Liberals upset as Bush applies pressure on Senate to confirm Justice Dept. appointment. What is the torture memo? Liberals like to throw that term around, but I've never seen a memo authorizing torture.

Bush administration reports it is open to using waterboarding in the future if circumstances warrant. Good for Bush. I like how this article not-so-subtly attempts to equate the US with the Spanish Inquisition and the Kymer Rouge. I would expect nothing less than this kind of bogus attempt at moral relativism from the hate-America crowd.

Requiring lobbying organizations to report their donors does not infringe on free speech or freedom of association. We shouldn't allow business, corporation, labor unions, charities or any other non-individuals to lobby anyway. Our government is supposed to be "of the people, by the people for the people", not economic organizations that are legal constructs, not people.

Faced with the prospect of the federal government cutting off funds for Berkeley, the mayor did an about face on his comments that Marines were unwelcome in Berkeley. It's good to see that jerk eat crow. I still want to know why the federal government sends funds to Berkeley, and I want to end it anyway.

Exxon continues to fight to get compensation for oil production assets seized by Venezuela.

Falling demand for gasoline will drive down prices. Some would call this good news, but since the reduced demand is a result of looming recession, it's a poor consolation prize.

Exxon paid $30 billion in taxes last year at a 41% rate. That's more taxes than the lowest 50% of American taxpayers combined. Yet Democrats want more. it's never enough for Democrats. I would rather that $30 billion went into research for alternative energy, development of new oil reserves and refineries, or just invested back in the free market to grow the economy so every American could benefit. But no, liberals want to punish Exxon for making profits and spend that money on government and special interests.

Recognizing he can't win or even manage a brokered convention, Ron Paul to scale back campaign to save some money.

The Clintons are definitely using Chelsea as a tool. And the double-standard the Clintons recieive from their media cronies is unseemly. They use Chelsea as a tool, but anybody who mentions it gets attacked and suspended. Hillary is lying about this comment in an attempt to gain sympathy from mothers for political advantage. The reporter didn't say anything distasteful about Chelsea. He said it about her parents, and the comment was right on target.

Huckabee trounces McCain in Kansas. Coronating McCain is premature. It's very possible all of Romney's voters will go to Huckabee, and McCain hasn't won a majority yet, I don't think.

Magnetic field creates positive feedback for electric motor, seemingly violating the conservation of energy.

It only took a day for John Kerry to use the people killed by the tornadoes in the south for political gain. I figured Al Gore would be first.

Another global warming fanatic calls for jailing non-believers. I have looked at the science, and manmade CO2 is not a very minor factor in climate. Solar activity is the primary driver. Maybe the fanatic should look at the science and try using reason instead of emotion.

Hillary Clinton perfume.

When pressed on the failures of mandating health insurance, Clinton clams up and falls back on sound bites. She thinks universal health care is a positive sound bite. But it's just a different way of saying socialized medicine, which is failing all over the world.

I didn't have to go to a seminar by a Marxist professor to understand how a tiny, powerful group of Marxists are driving the liberal/progressive movement, undermining America, and steering us down the road to communism. But I'm glad this guy went and that somebody besides me is writing about it.

The WHO says tobacco could kill 1 billion people this century. Those people are going to die anyway. Leave them alone.

Contact lens with virtual display.

Ann Coulter explains why she would vote for Hillary instead of McCain. She's typically politically incorrect at CPAC.

Thomas Sowell recommends a couple of books on economics.