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Russia pressures UN to ignore Kosovo independence resolution. If we recognize Kosovo, we will spark independence movements all over the world. How do we determine which separatist movements should be legitimized and which should not? We're seeing the further balkanization of the Balkans. We're lucky and blessed in America that we don't know this kind of ethnic hatred. It makes you wonder what would have happened if we had lived up to our agreements with native Americans in past centuries. US, UK, France, Germany, and Italy support independence. Fearing its own separatists, Spain does not amid fears of violence in Kosovo. Russia also has a separatist problem. China joins Russia, its ally in the new Cold War of Terror, to condemn Kosovo independence.

Iranian leader says that its proxy, Hezbollah, will destroy the cancerous growth that is Israel - with radiation therapy. I wonder if Iran has already supplied Hezbollah with dirty bombs. Ahmadinejad says God will punish Iranians if they don't support his nuclear program.

2nd Afghan bomb kills 35. I think the Taliban is making statement, thanking us for allowing them safe haven in Pakistan with their al Qaeda buddies. We've known since the dawn of time if you give a guerrilla army a safe haven, then will gain strength and destabilize any counterinsurgency effort. Yet we've done just that in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We don't have to be stupid. Surely we could make it worth Pakistan's while to allow us to wipe out those safe havens.

9 Pakistani election security officials are feared kidnapped. They can't even protect their own security personnel?

Why shouldn't we provide significant financial incentive to American to join the Army? I agree that offering a $40,000 signing bonus will attract short-timers though. Having to pay much more shows that ideological support for our wars is low. But risk amazingly low. There has never in history been a war with so few casualties.

China plans to surpass the US in nanotechnology.

On President's Day, Reason celebrates George Washington's presidency.

Reason shows that Hillary is more tyrannical in her economic plans than Obama, despite having tried to position herself as more centrist by being a hawk.

Nearly naked hotties for Ron Paul.

Obama accused by Clinton of plagiarizing speech.

Liberals think that McCain is more liberal than even conservatives think.

As stupid is discrimination is, free people are free to discriminate, therefore Americans should be free to discriminate. In a free market, businesses that discriminated would suffer because they would have a smaller pool of potential employees and customers compared to businesses that didn't discriminate. They would suffer from continual protests. The people, through social pressure, would end discrimination. But when the law gets involved, it just aggravates the problem because it infringes our freedom, and it keeps the people from overcoming discrimination. Americans have equal rights under the law, but that doesn't mean private citizens can't discriminate. As always, the Constitution should be our guide. The law has no business sticking its nose in private property rights.

Christopher Hitchens takes on the NYTimes for cleaning up quotes to protect readers from what was actually said. That's not journalism.

Boortz provides an relevant quote for our times:

I THINK THIS REALLY DRIVES THE POINT HOME. WISH I HAD WRITTEN IT!

This alert came from a listeners. He was reading "The Bad Boy of Baltimore" a biography of H.L. Mencken by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. On page 409 of that book he finds the following"

"By the mid-1930's, thanks to the New Deal, all that self-reliance had changed, prompting Mencken to declare: 'There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them.' Despite the billions spent on an individual, 'he can be lifted transiently but always slips back again.' Thus, the New Deal had been 'the most stupendous digenetic enterprise ever undertaken by man.... We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time. The effects of that doctrine are bound to be disastrous soon or late.'

When someone asked, "And what, Mr. Mencken, would you do about the unemployed?" He looked up with a bland expression. "We could start by taking away their vote," he said, deadpan. Mencken was not surprised when the majority disagreed. "There can be nothing even remotely approaching a rational solution of the fundamental national problems until we face them in a realistic spirit," he later reflected, and that was impossible so long as educated Americans remained responsive "to the Roosevelt buncombe."

"Buncombe," by the way, means either a county in North Carolina, a city in Illinois or another word for "nonsense."

Please ... cut and paste the Mencken quote. It is so very much more relevant to what's going on today than it was in Mencken's time. Send it to your friends ... send it far and wide. Post it on your blogs. Get it out there. Wonderful stuff.

Virgina created a "Tax Me More Fund" in 2002, and it has raised only $10,217.04 since. Apparently those hypocrites calling for higher taxes aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is.

Apparently, because of Obama's hope, people won't shoot up schools anymore. If that was true, why didn't this guy just faint at an Obama rally like everybody else? And we already waste too much time on making people "feel safe". I'm sure those students felt safe right up until the murderer, who didn't bother to obey the rules, surprise, surprise, killed them. Banning guns on NIU made people feel safe, but it made them less safe. This article is political opportunism at it's worst, and this woman is slime.

Not so satirical essay describes the consequences of cutting man-made CO2 as demanded by Al Gore and the politicians in the IPCC. 1 billion dead are just the start. What do the Marxists masquerading as environmentalists care? It's a Great Leap Forward for the new century, right? Just like Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot, they understand you have to break a few eggs to turn the world into paradise.

Another essay describing the dumbing down of America.

Berkeley taxpayers spend $93,000 in police overtime thanks to the city council's denunciation of US Marines.

British atheists are attacking the Boy Scouts for mentioning God in an oath. These fruitcakes need to find a reason to exist.

Any poll that ranks JFK as the 4th greatest American president is bogus.

40% of British Muslims advocate introducing Sharia law into Muslim locals of Britain. Why are there Muslim locals in Britain? Why isn't all of Britain, Britain. This is the definition of balkanization. Muslims in Britain use supposedly powerless Sharia courts to supplement British courts, especially in the case of marriage. Those courts may not currently have the backing of British law, but they aren't powerless if a subset of British people follow them. This is going to keep growing and infect British law.

McCain says he won't raise taxes. But he also says, he "see[s] an argument, if our economy continues to deteriorate, for lower tax rates, and certainly decreasing corporate tax rates". If it's good for the economy to lower interest rates, lower tax rates, and lower corporate tax rates when the economy is deteriorating, why isn't it good all the time? And why should we just lower them instead of abolishing them in favor of an ideal, business-friendly tax system that acknowledges the economic reality that all taxes are eventually paid by consumers at the point of sale? This kind of non-critical thinking exposing our politicians as frauds. Adopt the FairTax.