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It's about time somebody started examining the consequences of the Fed's expanded role as lender of last resort to Wall Street. More government. More problems. Worse problems.

The price of rice has jumped 30%. This government subsidized biofuels boondoggle is going to blow up on all of us.

US police forces want to deploy spy drones. Lovely.

Condoleezza Rice says Americans have a hard time discussing race because slavery existed at our founding. Of course slavery was horrible, it's a shame the founding fathers couldn't have created America without it, but to blame today's racial issues on slavery is just an excuse. Nobody alive today in America was ever a slave. The economic fortunes of blacks were advancing faster than those of whites up until LBJ and the Republicans created affirmative action, which set up a policy in which blacks did not have to work as hard or achieve as much everybody else in the country. Affirmative action has done more damage to blacks in the last 50 years than anything, fostering an entitlement mentality, and crippling their advancement in society. It's the legacy of affirmative action that taints race relations today and keeps us from celebrating the astounding improvements in race relations since the 50s.

Fingerprint scans replace clocking in.

TSA officials make woman remove nipple rings before getting on airplane. I guess explosive nipple rings are a serious threat to flights. Or maybe they were afraid she had a gun hidden in fake breasts. This is typical, stupid government force. This is the kind of health care we can expect if we adopt socialized medicine.

Iranians kill 120 militants in Basra, but Maliki extends deadline to surrender and offers money to turn in weapons. It's kind of hard to walk up to a checkpoint with heavy weapons to surrender when you're in the middle of a battle. Slate explains that the fighting in Basra is between 2 Shiite militias, the Mahdi Army and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. But Bush is also right in that that the ISCI members have joined the government, have been trained by US troops and integrated into the Iraqi military, and the Mahdi Army has not. So while this is a power struggle, it's a struggle between the legitimate government and a lawless militia.

After South Korea links progress on joint project to denuclearization, North Korea expels workers and test fires short range missiles.

Defense Sec. Gates orders review of all nuclear arms in the US.

More than a million Iraq exiles are still living in Syria.

Gore compares global warming skeptics to flat-earthers on 60 Minutes. He's got it exactly backwards. He's promoting a position based entirely on faith and contradicted by the facts - just like the flat-earthers. The skeptics are the ones with open minds, using reason to address the actual data instead of religious beliefs. I wish the Justice Department would sue, or maybe arrest, this guy for fraud.

Reason defends Dutch MP Geert Wilders and his anti-Koran film, pointing out that everybody should have the freedom to offend. Why does the UN chief slam Dutch lawmaker's anti-Koran movie? Doesn't he have his own job to do? I guess he doesn't respect free speech.

42 Democrat congressmen claim they will attempt to force a complete, unconditional draw down of US forces in Iraq. No forces to train Iraqis. No forces to fight al Qaeda. Consequences be damned. In a related story, the same 42 congressmen will call for 200,000 US peacekeepers to be sent to Iraq a year after they get their way, blaming president Bush for the genocide that followed the withdrawal of US troops.

Hillary Clinton finally has the courage to go on Foxnews. Took her a year to build up enough courage. I don't understand that kind of cowardice. I wonder how Democrats will stand up to Putin or Ahmadinejad.

The more the people hear from Hillary, the more her lies are exposed. Credibility gap is a nice euphemism for bald faced liar. We used to call her kind of lies, the Big Lie, but I think in the future we're going talk about the Clintonian Lie.

Desperate, Hillary changes her health care plan to cap health care costs at a percentage of income. Cato explains that this turns health care expenditures into a progressive tax, bringing her plan closer to socialized medicine. Cato also points out that this shows Hillary's health care plans are not well thought out - she forced mandates that raise prices then tries to compensate with price caps. Price caps inevitably lead to shortages because government cannot change the laws of economic, only pervert them to the detriment of everybody.

Now Obama says he would have quit his church if Rev. Wright had not retired. Give me a break. Obama listened to that fruitcake for 20 years. He exposed his children that insane hatred for all their young lives. But he would have quit if Wright hadn't retired. Bull. Obama's trying to rewrite history. Wright retired to officially join the Obama campaign. Obama wanted closer ties, not further ties. Obama was forced kick him off his campaign, and now he's trying to lie about it. He's learned the Clinton's lessons well. No matter what, just keep lying. Mickey Kaus shows that these standard Wright themes of hatred of whites appeared in the first sermon Obama listened to, and later celebrated in his first book.

Paper mistakenly accuses McCain of plagiarism.

Scalia criticizes mainstream media for their reporting on the Supreme Court. They never talk about that law. That's because they're liberals and the rule of law means nothing to them. It's all about feeling good about themselves and their motives, not the law nor the consequences.

Ohio Attorney General won't prosecute Limbaugh or Republicans for voting in the Democrat primary. It's about time somebody made some sense on this subject.

Google click-through rate is flat. Mine is increasing, so that's OK. And I'm bringing in a couple of new customers, so that will help.

Cato says Zimbabwe's elections are rigged in favor of Mugabe and his cronies, and free nations should reject the election and strengthen sanctions against Mugabe and his cronies.

Social networks are replacing formal news portals. The problem with this is that networks exclude news they don't care about, but should. Then again, so do major media outlets.

Prefab house is completely self-sustainable. I doubt this is true, but this is the wave of the future. In 10 to 20 years every new home in advanced will be self-sustaining. It won't be government that makes this happen; it will be the free market. The caveat to my prediction is government. The only thing that can stop this evolution is government's protection of corporations including power companies and city water and waste management facilities. What will government do without that revenue? (Remember, corporations are tax collectors for government.) And that might be the only reason such homes aren't commonplace today.

At least US citizens aren't as backward as Turkey. Many Americans don't believe that in natural selection. I'm sure these numbers are not accurate because of the nature of poll questions, but still...