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UK court documents reveal that British authorities quashed an investigation into a Saudi arms dealer because the Saudi royal family threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack Britain. I think this is a huge deal. Maybe now our government will finally address the Saudi terrorist factory and relax the regulations on drilling in the US, refining fuel, and building cost-effective power plants. It's criminal that our government restricts our freedom so we're forced to send our hard earned money to terrorist-backing tyrants all over the Middle East instead of keeping it in America to work for Americans.

Northern Illinois University was another gun free zone, making the unarmed students and faculty easy victims for any killer.

Phoenix police to ask people arrested if they are in the country legally. This is just common sense. And Hispanics will certainly get asked more often than non-Hispanics. This isn't discrimination. It's recognition of serious problem with Hispanic illegal immigrants. Why isn't this happening everywhere?

California legislator tries to brainwash kids into believing the global warming fraud by requiring science classes and textbooks teach it. You can bet this won't be an honest analysis of minuscule effect of man-made CO2 compared to natural CO2 or water vapor, and the small effect that greenhouse gases have on our environment compared to solar variations. The science of climate change is in its infancy, and should be much farther along before we teach it in high school.
Bomb in Mexico city kills 1. The drug gangs are learning from the terrorists. They're natural allies, and we fund both of them through the war on drugs and purchase of foreign oil.

Russia upset because shooting down failing satellite will show that our anti-missile system can do double-duty as an anti-satellite weapon.

China bans horror movies. Maybe this will be the last straw and the Chinese people will overthrow their communist masters.

Good for Tampa for putting in jail the deputy who dumped the paraplegic out of his wheelchair. The other officers who condoned her actions should be fired.

UK recommends registering smokers. Anybody purchasing cigarettes would need a permit. Government is the enemy of freedom, and must be severely limited to reduce its danger.

As rural Chinese move to cities, unemployment will rise.

Reason on the power of the video camera to expose human rights abuses.

The Guantanamo trials are not only designed to keep government actions secret, but to influence the upcoming election. Any evidence gathered from harsh interrogation techniques should be excluded. If it isn't, these trials will be illegitimate.

Because Barack Obama is a fund-raising machine, McCain challenges him to accept public funding. Like that'll happen.

I don't want strollers or crying babies in my bar. Quiet babies are fine.

Letterman top 10 list regarding Jane Fonda's slip of the tongue, so to speak.

Man drives stolen Hummer to pick up welfare benefits.

You would think that parents and/or schools could teach kids that showing up for an interview would be important.

Charles Krauthammer explains that Obama is leading a bunch of religious fanatics in a disturbing, messianic campaign. And it's getting worse. I resembles the cult of Al Gore's Church of Man-made Global Warming. This kind of religious fervor is dangerous. It works great for getting votes based on emotions, but you have to have policies to improve America, not just a bunch of religious followers. Obama does not. These liberals should just start going to church and stop trying to force their religion on the rest of us using government power.

Ann Coulter rips McCain because even though he's from a strong conservative state, McCain's liberal. He'll be even more liberal when president.

Article reports that the silverware and furniture the Clinton's took when leaving the White House were gifts for 2 new houses. 2 new houses?

Thomas Sowell reminds us that communism, fascism, progressivism (which is championed by Hillary Clinton and indistinguishable from fascism) and modern liberalism are all flavors of the same ideology. It wasn't until the evils of fascism were exposed that liberals trying to rewrite history and turn fascism into a right-wing ideology. He also explains the basic, minor, difference between communism and fascism, whether or not the state controls the means of production as well as the policy. I wonder why liberals never tried to twist communism into a right-wing ideology too? They probably did and failed, and I'm just not aware of that history. He recommends Jonah Goldberg's new book Liberal Fascism on the subject.

Thomas Sowell explains that the job of the media is to inform to the best of its ability, not to filter the news to support an agenda of any kind.

In a typical Clintonian move, Hillary wants to brand Obama as a McGovernite, but she doesn't want to have to accept the consequences. This is Clintonism to to a T. Also, John Murtha's beneficiaries throw him an annual thank you dinner? Isn't that enough evidence to charge this guy with corruption?

Dick Morris explains how Hillary blew her virtual lock on the Democratic nomination. It took a special kind of ineptitude, hubris, nastiness, phoniness, and much more to screw that up.

Walter Williams shows how anti-smoking tyrants paved the way for anti-obesity tyrants. The nanny-state is another form of collectivism, which is just a fancy word for tyranny.

Trial lawyers suing telecoms donate at least $1.5 million to Democrats so they will block Telecom immunity in the new FISA bill. Telecom immunity is one of the few aspects of the FISA bill that is good for America, so naturally a bunch of trial lawyers and Democrats are against it. Once again, one of our parties is putting special interests about the interests of the people.

Jonah Goldberg provides much needed perspective on the 5 minutes of waterboarding the CIA did to 3 top al Qaeda operatives.

Michael Barone explains that the Democrat's system of proportional delegates plus superdelegates will likely split their party. At least Barone tells the truth about superdelegates - their intended purpose is to overrule the will of Democrat voters. Otherwise, they wouldn't exist. The Ivy league liberals - the government aristocracy - know they rule the country, and that ruling class mentality is institutionalized in their nominating process. Democrats supposed support of working class people, more accurately the people they patronize, doesn't extend to having a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Marine responds to Berkeley.

I never cease to be entertained by Mark Steyn. He can draw relevant comparisons from crazy places, and while presenting shockingly depressing information, he cracks me up. At least until the US lurches so far to the left that it starts censoring speech like Canada, I can laugh at our self-destruction with every Steyn essay. This week he takes on Obamamania. The quotes he pulls shows the Jim Jones kind of religious fervor the of the far left as they worship Obama. Those liberal religious fanatics are scarier than any Christian I've ever met. And the liberals are out in the mainstream. It's nuts.

Democrats have used bogus identity politics to keep minorities locked up for decades, but now that they're running a white woman against a black man, the identity politics is blowing up and splitting their party. Identity politics is stupid. That's why they have superdelegates to overrule the people they have patronized into voting for them.

General Petraeus upgrades his prognosis on Iraq to cautiously optimistic.

The WSJ explains this is not a change election at all. Anybody expecting change needs to wake up. Both Democrats are big tax and spend candidates, and McCain is Republican statist (though the author hopes he'll actually reform government, given his history, that's most likely a fantasy as well). McCain knows all he has to do is promise to keep taxes and spending lower than the Democrat, not actually lower them like we need.

Lawrence Kudlow understand's Obama is a downer for the economy.

Weekly Standard compares McCain to Churchill. That's quite a stretch, but maybe if Germany was raining bombs down on us every night, I would support McCain. If the comparison is valid, and I doubt it is, then the timing is terrible because the world is nothing like it was in 1940.

Ralph Peters interviews Joe Lieberman.

Ripping Congress for the theater of the absurd kangaroo court of Roger Clemens and steroids.

Government regulation can't take the risk out of investing. Without risk, there would be no reward, and there would be no capitalism. More regulation means more business flees the country. Markets regulate themselves far better than government - Enron is a perfect example. The market fixed that problem, not government. Same with the sub-prime lenders (who were pushed into sub-prime lending by government to begin with). Deregulate.

It's good to see some reasoned debate about our out of control military commitments.

John McCain has a 25 year history supporting pro-growth tax cuts, and his claim to have voted against the Bush tax cuts in a larger budget that had just had spending caps removed is credible.

Austin Bay explains that al Qaeda's use of down's syndrome women as suicide bombers shows more than the fact that it is having trouble recruiting - it shows it is having trouble even creating big headlines, and it is losing the war for hearts and minds in the Muslim world.

John Stossel explains that the economic stimulus package won't stimulate anything any more than breaking a bunch of windows.

Putin is taking credit for growth in Russia, but an analysis of all the communist countries that fell in the early 90s show that Russia still trails far behind the growth curve because they have not reformed as much. This is an excellent analysis and a damning indictment of Putin's rule.

I agree that artificial intelligence will have reached human level in 20 years. Beyond that, we have no idea what will happen because machines will become smarter than us.