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Chinese hackers claim working for Chinese government and hacking into Pentagon. China wants us to show them the proof. Right. Like we would give them more information about our systems so they could hack them more easily.

Bush vetoes bill that would ban CIA from using waterboarding to interrogate terrorists.

Violence in Baghdad is slowly on the rise. We knew this would happen. Al Qaeda has evolved, and we have to evolve to continue routing them.

In wake of Kosovo independence, Serbian ruling coalition collapses.

Dow falls below 12,000 on job loss info.

Calls to ban plastic bags are based on bad science just like calls to limit man-made CO2.

Savage's copyright infringement case against CAIR in court.

Irish Nobel Peace prize winner calls Hillary Clinton's claim to have brokered peace in Ireland "silly". He's being generous. He should call it what it really is: a vicious, corrupt woman lying to the public to try and win votes for president so she can gain her ideal of ultimate power for herself.

Obama and Clinton clash on irresponsible Iraq pullout. I didn't expect this to happen until after the nomination.

Wyoming primary today leans toward Obama.

Mark Steyn examines how white guilt and identity politics drive the Democrat primaries.

I'm confused by one aspect of the housing crisis. Articles focus on the reduced value of homes since the housing bubble popped, which I get. But some articles claim that people are just walking away from their mortgages. What does walk away mean? How can they get away with that? How can they ever hope to buy a home again if they just walk away? I can understand filing bankruptcy if you have no income, savings or possessions to lose, but if you have income, bankruptcy court will garnish that. I just don't get it. It seems to me you have to pay the mortgage even if it costs more than the reduced value of the home.

Analysis of international law as it applies to Israel's response to daily rocket attacks by Hamas.

Steve Forbes explains the outrage of Congress passing tax hikes targeting US oil companies but not Venezuela's Citgo. Income taxes are punishing enough in general, we don't need Congress using them to punish American businesses more than foreign businesses. Forbes explains that the new subsidies will go to big corporations who lobby Democrats. This whole energy bill is just a standard government boondoggle to punish companies that don't lobby the majority and reward those that do. We have to take back our power from government so our representatives can't use our power to make themselves richer and more powerful at our expense.

Ralph Peters interviews Ray Odierno, who just returned to the US after a tour as Gen. Petraeus' chief of counterinsurgency operations.

I don't understand the sudden hand wringing about Florida and Michigan Democrats voters. If they deserve a vote now, why didn't they deserve it when the decision was being made to take it away. Why did the state parties move up the election knowing it would mean their votes wouldn't count? This reminds me of the Clinton, Republican budget showdown, where the Republicans dragged Clinton kicking and screaming to a balanced budget, but voters blamed Republicans at the polls for shutting down the government and Bill Clinton got credit for balancing the budget. In their selfishness, the state parties screwed their voters out of their votes, but the DNC is going to get blamed because of the close race.

House fails to provide telecom immunity in FISA bill. Without it, everything else is mute. Telecoms won't perform any wiretaps without immunity from lawsuits, understandably, so our ability to intercept enemy communications will end.