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Russia to support Serbia against Kosovo independence. Not that it can do much. It doesn't have an oil pipeline it can cut off in an energy extortion plan like it uses with other countries.

Food prices to rise.

Testing for the sex of an unborn baby before deciding whether to get an abortion.

Mickey Kaus reports that McCain's lobbyist worked for Univision. I never heard that before. If that had come out before Romney dropped out of the race, it would probably have cost McCain the nomination. As I said when this story first broke, the NYTimes waited until the McCain nomination was secure, because liberals love McCain when he's competing against Republicans, but they'll attack him mercilessly from here on out because he's competing with Democrats.

Obama is trying have it both ways in Clintonesque fashion. He supports free trade, but not NAFTA because it's not fair. Either you support free trade or you don't. He's singling out NAFTA simply because it's unpopular. I support free trade with every country that isn't trying to kill us, but I don't support outsourcing our trade policy to supernational organizations, so I don't support NAFTA or the WTO. I would prefer to negotiate a free trade agreement with Mexico and a free trade agreement with Canada. And we should remove China from most favored nation status and use trade as a lever to move China toward freedom, and to end China and Russia's new Cold War of Terror against us. The US should never be afraid of free trade with friendly nations. Our problem is the burden of government, our punishing income tax, while our trading partners have business friendly VAT taxes.

Clinton trying to smear Obama with photo of him wearing native dress on a trip to Kenya. This is desperate. Clinton moves from anger to sarcasm. I bet this blows up in her face. You can't fault Hillary for aggressively defending her client, even against a 12 year old.

South Africa to allow elephant cull. I probably hear about the precarious, nearly extinct elephant every week or every month. I've never heard it reported that their numbers have increased from 8,000 to 20,000 since 1995 in South Africa. That's not on the verge of extinction. That's rapidly increasing population.

AMD was on the decline when I left, and it hasn't recovered.

Star Parker supports the FairTax.

Socialized medicine is failing in Canada. Despite Canada's strong economic boom based on oil revenue, the increasing price of socialized medicine is outstripping revenue. This is happening despite the rationing of health care by denying access to specialists, new, life saving medicines, and enforced delays, making Canada's health care system already inferior to the US. The recommendations are for free market reforms - having Canadians pay for their own health care. Otherwise Canada will go broke. Sound familiar? Hillary, Obama, Romney, Schwarzenegger and others want to accelerate America down the same path.

Cato explains that free trade creates wealth and jobs for America. This protectionist movement is going to cost us plenty.

Republicans will be handicapped in the general election because any attacks on the Democrat will draw accusation of racism or sexism.

The Fed is in denial about inflation.

Author describes the heroism of Marines at the battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive. The media never reported on their heroism, focusing instead of negative stories like My Lai, and misleading the public into think Vietnam was an unwinable war instead of a war we were winning and eventually won, before Congress lost it. Now they're doing the same thing, undermining our troops, ignoring their heroism, and undermining the war effort in Iraq.