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Thanks to titanic US and exploding state government, 1 in 10 Ohio families receive food stamps.

US mistakenly ships nuclear fuses instead of helicopter batteries to Taiwan.

Supreme Court rebukes Bush for sticking his nose in a Texas death penalty case.

Iraqi government forces fight Mahdi Army in Basra. Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker submit plan that holds troop numbers steady for most of 2008.

The Federal government creates another monopoly, allowing Sirius and XM satellite to merge.

Fewer than 1% of airline flights have air marshals.

Sarkozy threatens to boycott Olympics opening ceremony over Chinese response to Tibetan protests.

Reason reports that Russia continues to roll back freedom.

Reason wonders if suppressing research or performing research is sinful.

Reason wonders if subsidies are harming clean energy research. Absolutely!

Now the new New York governor admits prior cocaine use. This is better than any comedy on TV.

This is a crock. Cuyahoga county, home of Cleveland, Ohio, has opened a voter fraud investigation because 16,000 Republicans registered as Democrats to vote in the Democrat primary. The law in Ohio says that you declare your party at the polls. The law is designed to easily switch parties for primary elections. In fact, the only time you can switch parties is at a primary election. If Ohio doesn't like that, they need to change the law, not investigate people for following it.

Ohio to recount some votes.

Obama releases tax returns. Clinton continues to hide hers and everything else she can from the voters.

CBS video of Hillary Clinton in Bosnia. Needless to say, she's not running around, ducking sniper bullets like she tried to mislead us into believing. Chelsea is walking right along next to her. Hillary and Bill wouldn't tell the truth unless it favored them, which it never does. Obama recognizes Clinton is intentionally misleading. Clinton refuses to continue discussing this latest lie.

Why did Obama's aid apologize for his reference to the Monica Lewinski scandal? The Clintons have redefined corruption and scandal in politics, and that should be prominently debated.

McCain delivers serviceable speech about housing crisis, and he comes out against big-government intervention.

Showing how much liberals really support the troops, school cancels celebration of war veterans as too political.

Cato explains that the unintended consequences of biofuels will be worse for people and the environment than oil. UK to delay implementing biofuel mandates because of the damage biofuels do to the environment. Good for them. Too bad we can't get that kind of honesty over here.

Cato appreciates tax havens because they pressure government to lower taxes. I have a better idea. How about we adopt the FairTax and become transform the US into the world's preeminent tax haven.

Any honest person understands that the attacks on the war at home provide aid and comfort to the enemy, but now Harvard researchers have identified a direct link to negative press about Iraq in the US to increased terror attacks on Iraqi civilians and coalition forces.

How can a baggy pants bill be discriminatory? It may be stupid, but it's based on behavior, not skin color.

British family is proud to have 3 adults not working and an entire family living off of welfare.

Federal government seizes home of sex offender. Fortunately this wasn't our client. But considering how easy it is to convict men on these crimes even when all the evidence supports the defense, this is a dangerous precedent.

Man in lawsuit for stealing virtual sex toys from Second Life.

Thomas Sowell doesn't think the primaries, with their tiny turnouts dominated by entrenched special interests, are any more representative of the will of the people than the smoky backrooms of party insiders. Sowell points out that Barack Obama spent his formative years picking far-left anti-American friends like Rev. Wright, never mainstream, trying to make himself into the black American he never was, and that's consistent with his radical liberal voting record (which he blames on the Senate, not himself - how come the Senate didn't make another other senator so liberal?). Now he's trying to capitalize on his manufactured persona at the same time making new and phony claims to be the post-racial candidate who can unite the country.

George Bush doesn't understand free trade (just try reading a Bush free-trade agreement) or protectionism, but Pat Buchanan is wrong in calling for tariffs. Smoot-Hawley helped mire us deeper in the Depression.

Ralph Peters excoriates Bush and the Democrats for their callousness to our troops, who deserve far better leaders.

Lawrence Kudlow applauds Bernanke and his Fed moves, showing how they made a real difference to real people, and thinks the worst of the housing crisis is behind us.

Author claims that Denmark has implemented a carbon tax and suffered no penalty. But where's the proof? She provides no data to show that Denmark isn't paying an economic penalty. But obviously it is paying an economic penalty. Before the carbon tax, Denmark relied heavily on coal, and they only switched to alternative energy when the carbon tax was implemented. That means the alternative energy is more expensive than coal without the carbon tax. Denmark is paying more for energy than it would be without the carbon tax, and that is a drain on the economy - basically a hidden tax. She provides no numbers because the numbers would disprove her assertion. This is how the press misleads the public into bad policy.

I've often said that the war on terror will end when Muslim mothers love their children more than killing. It sounds like that is occurring on a grand scale right now. The understanding of the nature of al Qaeda, exported by the Sunni Awakening in Iraq, is intersecting with the love of parents for their children, and Islamic law to drive rejection of al Qaeda.