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Self-censorship in the face of threats - ISP takes down anti-Koran film Fitna after receiving threats. There is no report of who is doing the threatening, but the article says Muslim groups in the Netherlands are ignoring it, implying that Muslim groups in the UK, where it was hosted, are not.

Bush Administration proposes expanded oversight and regulatory powers for the Fed. This means that banks and financial firms will begin spending tons of money lobbying the Fed for specific rules and regulations that benefit the individual companies. It'll be even harder to figure out where the government ends and the corporations begin. This plan will completely corrupt our financial markets. Articles are claiming this is minor change compared to what could happen. I don't see it as a minor change, and I see as a change in the wrong direction. I'm sure the laws need to be changed from 1930, but they should be changed to limit the power of government, not expand it. Government is the problem, not the solution. Democrats propose more intrusive measures.

1 in 6 West Virginians is on food stamps. Government won't be satisfied until every American is destitute and dependent on government.

I have a new representative to praise. That's pretty rare. Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann introduces bill named "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act". This bill seems to be accurately named, which is reason to celebrate in itself, and it would repeal the government mandate to switch to compact florescent bulbs, leaving consumers the freedom to choose.

Sadr warns Mahdi Army against disarming. He's stuck between a rock and a hard place. If the Mahdi Army disarms, Sadr looses power. If they don't they're going to get killed.

Argentine farmers strike over export taxes of 45%. No wonder the farmers are mad. This lady is nuts, but at least she's honest. She came right out and said she wants to redistribute wealth by punishing her own country's farmers.

Government is outsourcing the printing of secure passports to questionable companies overseas.

Pentagon investigating 22 year old arms dealer who was selling substandard Chinese ammo to the US military.

History of links between China and Tibet.

Michelle Malkin in a cheerleading outfit.

Congressman pushes through $1.1 million earmark to protect his buddy's house from flooding.

UK government refuses to allow couple to move back into home after repairing flood damage because great crested newts may have moved in in the mean time. Where's Lady Macbeth when you need her?

Distracting Milwaukee billboard warns drivers about distractions.

Help a soldier bring his dog back with him from Iraq.

Check nuclear blast radii on google maps.

Dick Morris elaborates on Bill Clinton's pardon of FALN terrorists to help Hillary win her New York Senate seat. Why didn't Obama bring this up? Obama is foolishly ignoring Hillary's record of corruption. Why carry on as if she's some kind of reputable leader? He says he has good judgment, but he also says he respects Hillary. He can't have it both ways.

Obama continues to defend Rev. Wright and to promote the fiction that he had no idea Wright made such hate-filled rants. It looks like he'll get past this and still win the nomination, but you know in the general election, somebody is going to expose tons of Wrights sermons with similar rants and people are going to report that Obama was in the pews when they happened. No doubt, Obama also knew his church presented an award to Louis Farrakhan. Obama continues to fail to take responsibility for his own actions, blaming the press for publicizing Wright's rants instead of acknowledging that he knew about and chose to stay in the church and subject his children to that hatred anyway.

Ann Coulter finds entertainment in Hillary being dramatically busted by liberals in a Kerryesque lie while the same liberals defend Obama's relationship with Rev. Wright. Austin Bay also compares Clinton's lies about Bosnia to Kerry's lies about Cambodia.

George Will highlights the data that shows that conservatives are not just more compassionate than liberals, but they're a lot more compassionate, providing far more money to charity even though they don't make as much. This shouldn't surprise anybody. It also shouldn't surprise anybody that religious people are far more compassionate than secularists. Liberals substitute government force for actual compassion, then run around using bumper stickers to try and convince others how compassionate they are. There's nothing compassionate about welfare. There's nothing compassionate about big government. It assuages liberals' motives so they don't have to be personally compassionate - which they tend not to be - and the data proves it. You can read quite a bit of the report on Google books.

Walter Williams hopes the first black president is the caliber of Jackie Robinson, not Barack Obama who is nowhere near as great as Robinson. Williams also proclaims the civil rights struggle has been won, and that the problems of blacks are not caused by racism.

Jonah Goldberg points out that Democrats call for new New Deals every presidency and many times during Bush's presidency despite the failures of FDR's New Deal. Call for a new New Deal are really just calls for taking more power from the people for government aristocrats.