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US casualties in Iraq reach 4,000.

Even though government caused the current housing crisis by artificially holding interest rates too low, making it appear that risk on investments was much lower than it actually was, government wants to regulate Wall Street. Government can't even regulate itself, but it's adept at blaming others for the problems it causes.

Bomb in Mosul, drive by shooting in Baghdad, and mortar attack on the Green Zone. Happy Easter in Iraq.

Web host shuts down site for release of Fitna, a Dutch short film that claims the Koran and Islam are enemies of freedom. Pope blesses Muslim convert. Extremists will kill this guy soon.

Musharraf vows to back opposition government. US strikes on al Qaeda from predator drones increase with tacit approval from Musharraf.

China lashes out at critics. Whiny communists. Yuk.

Barney Frank introduces a bill to legalize marijuana.

Michigan has record snowy winter. Milwaukee has second most snow ever.

Reporter and co-traveler Sinbad blast Hillary Clinton for lying about the risks and circumstances in her Bosnian trip. This is the same Hillary that lied about her influence on the Irish peace deal, Chelsea running around the World Trade Center, and being named after Sir Edmund Hillary. This woman lies as easily as the rest of us breath. We should be laughing her to the loony bin, not considering her for president.

Obama still leads Clinton in money.

Marine pilot in San Diego reunites with Iraqi dog that adopted him.

George Will highlights Chief Justice Roberts' report that federal judges have not been getting reasonable raises for decades, and a result, bureaucrats are taking over judgeships instead of lawyers from the private sector.

Jonah Goldberg describes how critics of recently converted to conservatism playwrite Mamet now consider him locked in ideology, despite the process of conversion proving just the opposite - he's thinking for himself. Hopefully he continues the process and becomes a libertarian.

Pat Buchanan says Barack Obama's race speech was nothing more than a setup for the same, tired calls for white Americans to provide more welfare to black Americans, blaming whites for the problems of black culture.

Charles Krauthammer says the speech was a cover-up for Obama's scandalous decision to remain in an overtly racist church.

Mark Steyn explains that Obama's pastor is either insane or evil for promoting the damaging myth that white America created AIDS to kill black people. Anybody who embraces such a man as a spiritual adviser has his own problems, and shouldn't be president.

In a new tactic, Democrats are using the Iraq war as a scapegoat for the bad economy. Not other spending, just the war. These guys are like suicidal energizer bunnies - they just keep coming up with new ways to try and defeat their own country and hand victory to al Qaeda.

Insight into how cheap money corrupted the markets in the subprime crisis, but it fails to focus on that root problem of cheap money. As Hayek told us, central planning always leads to crisis, that must then be resolved by increased central planning. It's a death spiral.

Author performs a cost-benefit analysis of staying or leaving Iraq, but his analysis is heavily biased towards our failure. Similar analyses were done regarding Japan and Korea, and we see how they turned out.

Clarence Thomas understands that it's not the role of a justice to fix the Constitution, otherwise the justice is just projecting new problems based on personal opinion, not law.

Steve Forbes provides excellent advice on managing the subprime crisis, suggests we leave our troops in Iraq and expand our military, highlights the impressive reform in Albania, and calls the Justice Dept. pursuit of Bonds and Clemens a farce. Forbes understands we should defend the value of the dollar.

Leaders of Muslim nations get together to formulate plan to use western courts to stop anti-Muslim speech. Proving Muslims can be Orwellian too, one Muslim leader says there can be no freedom without limits. The blogger has a great point of view - if these leaders spent as much time stamping out extremism as they do trying to manipulate western laws, we wouldn't have this problem.

Maryland legislators consider providing free tuition for juvenile delinquents to get them back on track. Rewarding bad behavior is a proven way to promote more bad behavior. Punishing bad behavior reduces it.