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Putin's hand-picked presidential successor, Medvedev, wins Russian election in fraudulent landslide. Ann Applebaum wonders why Russia bothers to have elections. To provide the pretense to the country and the world that their government is legitimate. Russian riot police arrest Kasparov's election protesters.

China expands military spending on cyber attacks against the US and intercontinental nuclear missiles. Expands navy and army to fight beyond Taiwan. Because of the threat from the Russians and the Chinese, we need to engage with Canada, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and India to develop a Pacific/Indian ocean economic, diplomatic, and defense strategy, having those countries as equal partners in the expense.

Ahmadinejad in Baghdad calls US troops insult to region. Then he sent more missiles to Hezbollah and Hamas. Long range rockets being fired by Hamas into Israel were manufactured in Iran. UN security council considers 3rd round of sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. UN passes new sanctions against Iran.

US could be drawn into a war between Venezuela and Columbia. I think this is just saber rattling by Chavez. He has domestic problems, and saber rattling might win him some support at home. If Chavez and the other leftists would disarm FARC, we wouldn't have this problem. Cato explains that war is unlikely. Author reports that Chavez has strong ties to FARC.

US missiles strike al Qaeda in Somalia.

OPEC considers cutting production despite record high oil price. I have an idea. Why don't we get government to block drilling for oil in the US and to block building alternative power plants so we can maximize the money we pay for oil and insure that we ship as much of that money to foreign countries as possible. Do think that's a good platform for the upcoming election?

RFID tags in clothes should worry everybody.

Serbs refuse to work for Kosovo leaders.

Washington is finding ways to bailout homeowners without being labeled bailout. Bailouts promote more risky behavior and undermine personal responsibility, leading to increased bailouts in the future. The Fed has failed to halt the subprime melt-down. Government sparked this melt-down by keeping the money supply too high for too long. I bet a postmortem shows that government intervention made the melt-down worse as well. It always does.

Water negotiations between Georgia, Alabama and Florida fall through.

Reason advises Northern Illinois to stick with traditions and not change in the wake of the campus shooting. They should change 1 thing - they should allow students and faculty with concealed carry permits to carry on campus.

Reason reports from the first day of the International Conference on Climate Change. Funny I don't see anything about this in regular news sources.

Democrats are still afraid of appearing on Foxnews because they won't get their usual softballs for the liberal mainstream media.

Democrats adopt Orwellian language to sound tough on illegal immigration while pushing to legalize all the illegal immigrants in the country.

The only people who should be surprised that Clinton has suddenly widened her lead over Obama in Ohio are people who haven't figured the implications of the Cunningham, McCain, Obama issue. McCain chased off Willie's audience, and many of them will now vote for Hillary. Obama has a huge opportunity to capture a bunch of Willie's audience if he appears on Willie's show and embraces Willie and his middle name, freeing Americans to use it without the knee-jerk accusations of racism by the mainstream media.

Obama caught in denial of of campaign meeting with Canadian consulate in Chicago to reassure them he supports NAFTA. This is probably a big deal to the mainstream media, but in Ohio, it's nothing compared this his silent involvement in the Cunningham/McCain flap.

1 in 10 Americans is chronically sleep deprived. Yawn.

Woman is not happy with the woman on women article from yesterday. The original article did touch on the biological reasons for her argument. I need more popcorn.

The law, politics, economics and morality of Battlestar Galactica. I'm really looking forward to the new (and final) season.