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US Treasury Sec. Paulson says social security is unsustainable and needs an urgent overhaul. Gosh, yah think? It's about time somebody said it. How brave of the Bush administration to wait until its last year to make an issue out of the problem. To be fair, Bush attempted to reform social security at the beginning of his second term, but Democrats blocked him. But Bush didn't try very hard either. Cato wants to hear the candidates propose a solution. I bet Paulson made this announcement in concert with the McCain campaign to force Democrats to engage on the issue for the upcoming campaign. Medicare's financial problems are even worse.

Who is the world court to think it can order US courts around? The Constitution is the highest law of the land, period. Good for the Supreme Court to put an end to that baloney.

Wall Street financial firms may report 4 times the losses they have already reported.

Unmanned surveillance drone watches Miami citizens.

Government loves high gas prices because it means more tax revenue. Talk about conflict of interest. Government has no incentive to make the simple policy changes to make fuel cheaper. This just highlights how government aristocrats are divided from the rest of us. High fuel prices are good for them and bad for us just like high taxes, government regulations, subsidies, etc. are good for them and bad for us.

Big test for Maliki as Iraqi forces take on the Mahdi Army in Basra. If he holds firm and takes out those militias, Sadr will back down. He'll have no choice.

French President Sarkozy offers more French troops for Afghanistan, but only if NATO approves a French proposal for Afghanistan. Right now the French are only contributing 1,515 out of 43,000 NATO troops, and the French troops are almost completely non-combat.

Marriage rates in Britain lowest in recorded history. That's liberalism in action.

Why would a teacher's union in Britain want to allow imams, rabbis and priests to teach in schools? My guess is they want religious leaders in their union to make their union more untouchable.

3 female teachers in Tampa have been busted for having sex with minor male students in the last 2 weeks. Tampa men need to satisfy their women. I thought women went to the grocery to hook up with men.

Liberals complain that we don't respect other nations sovereignty or culture or customs, but then they complain that we don't overrule Iraq's courts and bring people tried there back to the US. You can never win with liberals.

Kofi Annan is upset that the new head of the UN isn't as anti-American as he was. Go crawl back under your rock, Kofi.

Reason weighs in on the rigged Russian elections and new President Medvedev.

Is there some agenda behind reporting what the rest of the world thinks of our presidential candidates? Am I supposed to care? Is this an attempt to subliminally convince Americans they should chose the candidate supported by the rest of the world? Or is it just reporting?

Reason illustrates that because he was a Republican often standing against conservative values, John McCain has received more favorable press than any politician in modern history. Until he because the presumptive Republican nominee. Reason tries to set the record straight.

Republican Congressman compares gays to cancer.

Nearly $1 billion raised for campaigns so far.

A second poll shows that large numbers of Democrat voters will defect to McCain if their candidate doesn't win the nomination. It's still a long way to November, but you can bet at least some of these voters will vote for McCain. The numbers will just grow the longer the Democrats keep going because Democrats have nothing to differentiate themselves on but race, gender, and lies - Obama lying about being a post racial candidate when in fact he's worked to insinuate himself into the far left angry black community for political benefit and Hillary lying about everything. Then there's the constant accusations that the other is playing dirty and for so-and-so to resign.

Unbelievable. After watching the Democrat party tear itself apart based on phony race/gender issues, some liberal is accusing Republicans of mounting a hate campaign against Obama based on race. Obama is the one who embraces racial hatred. Obama is the one who injected racial hatred into the campaign. And I have yet to hear of any Republican attack Obama based on race. Classic projection.

I doubt the military is really insulted by Hillary's lies about Bosnian snipers. Thin skin and phony outrage is for politicians, not the military.

Antarctic ice shelf breaking up do to changing currents.

Scientists induce suspended animation in mice without freezing.

Give me a break. Sorority put on probation for hosting a cowboy and indian themed party at which people dressed up as indians. I wonder if a cowboy organization sued for discrimination too.

Scientists discover oldest early human fossil in western Europe at 1.1 million years.

Motorola to split. This once great company was run into the ground by management. Now that same management runs AMD. It doesn't take a CPU design engineer (like me) to see how far AMD has fallen since, and where it will end up. AMD's sole savior is that it is the only viable second source for x86 processors. The same reason I hired in there 22 years ago when AMD was full of promise.

Austin Bay rips the Democrats a well deserved new asshole for their lies and claims of distress. Only liberals would support such unabashed frauds. This essay isn't funny, but if you don't bust a gut at the narcissistic hypocrisy that naturally assumes the press will never expose them, you need to get a new Democrat party or press ID card.