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This US, Canada, Mexico summit will probably advance the North American Union instead of the interests of Americans. Bush says now is not the time to renegotiate NAFTA. Of course it is. We need free trade agreements, not supranational organizations that undermine our sovereignty. We should ditch the NAFTA monstrosity and negotiate a simple free trade agreement with Canada and another with Mexico. Canada and Mexico can negotiate their own agreement.

How can this judge decide to force the Yearning for Zion children into foster care without having any evidence of abuse for them first? On what grounds is she doing this?

New York Judge rules prosecutors can indict suspects on the basis of DNA alone. This allows prosecutors to prosecute suspects after the statute of limitations has passed, once the suspect is identified by DNA. This is an interesting twist. I never understood the statute of limitations anyway. Evidence goes stale over time, but if that was the reason for it, the limit would be based on the evidence, not the crime. The problem with this is, since half of all rape allegations are fake, a woman can have normal sex with a man, then claim rape and provide his DNA, and the man who did nothing but have consentual sex will be subjected to a manhunt for the rest of his life. This law seems like prohibitionists trying to stamp out one-night-stands.

Dockworkers in South Africa refused to unload ship loaded with Chinese weapons for Zimbabwe, 
and China may recall the shipment because of the election crisis in Zimbabwe. This is the power 
of free people to do good.

Al Zawahiri is frustrated watching al Qaeda lose tactically and strategically around the world, and criticizes Muslims.

Food shortages hit extreme leftist countries Bolivia and Peru especially hard. Maybe they could grow their own food if they freedom instead. Ever notice how the extremely poor countries are always dominated by big-government and central planning?

It's always scary when the Senate debates anything, including the future of the Internet.

Subprime mortgages and the house flipping craze lead to a 327% increase in foreclosures in California. That's what happens when you try to get something from nothing. Government can't force lenders to make subprime loans and flood the market with money without suffering the consequences.

Prosecutors accuse American with spying for Israel.

Colorado state Republican representative calls Mexican workers illiterate peasants, and the chair bans him from the floor. This is interesting. If he's talking about illegal immigrants who can't speak English, this is a pretty accurate, though insulting, characterization. Illegal immigrants form a subclass of workers who work for less than the normal wage - that's why employers hire them. That's a pretty good description of a peasant. And if they can't read, write, and speak English, they're illiterate. And this characterization points out the fallacy of the legalization movement - if illegal immigrants are made legal, they'll no longer work for substandard pay, and employers will find a way to import more illegal aliens who will at the expense of Americans, legal immigrants, and the newly minted legal immigrants. It's a shame the chair banned him from speaking instead of allowing debate on what he said. Why isn't this man free to be insulting? I guess government will only allow politically correct speech.

Reason blasts the SAVE Act (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007) by showing that it would increase the requests for employment verification on the Social Security office by 13,000%. The federal government wants to make every American employer dependent on government to prove that every person they hire can legally work. That's almost as insane as building a fence between the US and Mexico. The solution is easy - employers check ID and birth certificate, visa, or green card on their own. Bartenders can do ID checks, so can employers. Problem solved. Central planning never works.

Reason calls Obama the lesser evil on judges. They're nuts. If Obama picks judges, the Court will be packed with Marxists for the next 40 years. Reason is letting its liberal, anti-war views override reason and libertarianism. Jonah Goldberg presents a sane viewpoint, that Obama's 
view of judges, using the same quotes from Obama that Reason uses, is a prescription for rule by judicial fiat. He also points out that Justice Stevens outright admitted he uses neither the 
Constitution nor the objective evidence presented in a case to make a decision - instead he uses his own conscious. Justice Stevens should be impeached immediately.

Bush disapproval rating highest in 70 years.

Republicans ignore and isolate extremists like this candidate who celebrated Hitler's birthday with neo-nazis, while the most powerful Democrats like Clinton, Obama and Carter embrace extremists and even terrorists like FALN, AMA, and CAIR; Ayers, Wright, and Farrakhan; and Hamas, respectively. And you can't forget KKK Byrd. It's amazing how liberals love terrorists and extremists, as long as they're fellow liberals, but they scream bloody murder about right-wing extremists. The mainstreaming of extermism and terrorism by the left versus the isolation of it by the right is one of the few practical differences between the ideologies.

Rice had warned Jimmy Carter not to meet with Hamas, but he did it anyway. He should consider himself lucky he didn't get beheaded.

Clinton suddenly changes her tune on Iran from a wishy-washy position to an unthinking position that she would obliterate Iran with nuclear weapons if it nuked Israel. No president or candidate should make such a blanket declaration. It's very likely that the best response to a nuclear attack on Israel by Iran would be overwhelming nuclear retaliation by the US against Iran, in which case that's what the president should order, but no president should make up his or her mind on that without first exploring every other option given the circumstances of such an attack. We don't need any knee-jerk reactionaries who have already checked their brain at the door in the presidency. We need sound judgment and thoughful leadership, which Clinton does not have.

Christopher Hitchens wonders why South Africa has tolerated years of Mugabe's misrule of Zimbabwe. Maybe because Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe, not South Africa? Why has the US tolerated generations of Mexican misrule? Because it's Mexico's problem to solve, not ours. Hitchens calls the dockworkers' refusal to unload the power of socialism, but that's baloney. Socialist workers would never have had a choice. Their government would have cut off their food or just had them all arrested or shot and forced other workers at gunpoint to unload the ship. You have to be free to have a choice.

Cato shows that NAFTA did not cost the US manufacturing jobs.

Great essay from Israel highlighting the messianic intentions of Obama and and the parallels to fascism, concluding that power-hungry Clinton is the lesser evil. The article spends a lot of time in the middle on Iran and Israel, but I think the exposing of Obama's messianic character is impressive. Our government has been steadily usurping the role of religion and churches in America, convincing people to search for happiness and solutions to their problems from government instead of from themselves and their churches. Both Clinton and Obama have coopted the traditional religious role of physical healer with absurd socialized medicine plans, fascist plans where government gives the orders and insurance companies carry them out, and Obama has taken it to a new level by offering spiritual healing as well. I prefer we elect a president who understands the limited powers of government and leaves people lets people find their own religion.

Rupert Murdoch calls for expanding NATO world-wide. This guy needs to stick to building his news empire.

Thomas Sowell explains that subsidies, because they pervert prices, sending inaccurate signals to consumers, lead to wasted resources, like wasted education. This is exactly why Sinclair is not working. Sowell also explains the dangers of CFL light-bulbs, which have not been figured into the market yet, even though government is on a crusade to ban incadenscents in favor of them.

Study shows the astronomical cost to taxpayers of immigrants, legal and illegal. We can thank Teddy Kennedy's for engineering the US by demographics and class, with huge quotas of poor, legal immigrants and immigrants from poor countries coupled with severe quotas on well educated immigrants and immigrants from rich countries, creating poor minorities in the US as 
well as both parties supporting illegal immigration for decades.

My Bengals must be nuts to turn down a first round draft pick and a guaranteed 3rd round pick which could potentially transform into another first round pick for Chad Johnson.