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The USS Cole is back in the Middle East showing support for Lebanon. I bet Michelle Obama is not proud.

Turkish troops withdraw from Iraq.

Israel threatens heavy retaliation against Hamas in Gaza for ongoing rocket attacks. It's about time. They need to take out the Hamas terrorists and everybody how harbors and supports them.

Russia has rigged the upcoming presidential election in favor of Putin's hand-picked successor.

The Euro, gold, and oil set new records against the dollar.

UK tax policy is shifting financial institutions out of London. Western governments are competing to see which can hurt their country the worst. Except for Ireland which is experiencing explosive growth since dramatically reducing taxes. Funny how that works.

Prince Harry pulled out of the fight against the Taliban after being exposed by the Drudge Report. Our Afghanistan mission is as misguided as the Iraq mission was before Gen. Petraeus took over. There are not enough troops in Afghanistan for counterinsurgency, and our NATO partners would happily sit on the sidelines and watch Afghanistan fail instead of ponying up enough troops to win. Probably the most interesting aspect of the Prince Harry story is that the UK press showed national solidarity and responsibility by keeping the lid on the story. The American press would have provided the Taliban exact coordinates to kill an important American in a similar situation, then claimed it was their journalistic duty.

Is Matt Drudge the world's most powerful journalist?

Nancy Pelosi throws a hissy fit and demands the Justice Dept. invoke a grand jury to investigate contempt of Congress charges against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton. She doesn't have a legal leg to stand on because these were close advisers to the president, which invokes executive privilege. Maybe she'll hold her breath until the Justice Dept. complies. Our government is composed of spoiled, bratty children.

Mickey Kaus explains the virtual border fence and that amnesty aristocrats like Bush, McCain and Chertoff never intended to build either a physical or virtual fence.

McCain's Freudian slip - calls himself a liberal. Unlike Bush, McCain can't hide the fact that he's a liberal pretending to be a conservative.

Hillary Clinton whines that it's hard running for president as a woman. Now she's whining about Texas' delegate selection process, and threatening to sue. She wasn't worried about when she was the frontrunner, was she? This must be the most classless woman alive.

Obama raises over $50 million in February. Apparently Michelle Obama is afraid of her husband's middle name. Why didn't she get him to change it?

Shades of Microsoft. Apple OS X had hidden APIs that provide performance boosts to Apple software, but not 3rd party software.

Cato explains that out of control criminalization led to the unprecedented incarceration of 1 in 99 Americans. To be tough on crime, we must reduce the burden of our laws because they obviously don't differentiate between real criminals and regular people.

If Cato wants to celebrate these presidential candidates instead of lamenting them, they're nuts.

Turkey plans to perform a radical reinterpretation of the Hadith, and therefore the Koran, to remove centuries of baggage devoted to political control for purpose serving the religious needs of Muslims in a secular democracy. That's a fantastic goal.

Graphs showing the success of the surge at quelling violence.

John Stossel explains that gun control laws are just restrictions on self-defense and that gun free zones are free crime zones.

US Representative Diane Watson calls Washington DC a chocolate city, but Willie Cunningham is called a racist for calling Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama.

The Democrats are the anti-competition party.

Apparently the British Foreign Sec. has not heard the news that global temperatures are dropping rapidly do to diminished solar activity.

Big government in Pennsylvania using tax dollars to promote big government with a campaign against privatizing the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Big government is like any other organism - it wants to grow - and it uses the taxdollars we feed it against us so it can continue to grow.