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Despite having only 5% of the world's population, the US imprisons 1/4 of the world's inmates.

US on the decline: Toyota surpasses General Motors as world sales leader. We can thank the burden of government in the US for this. Japan has business-friendly VAT tax, meaning they export their cars everywhere in the world, including the US, with no tax burden. The price of every GM car sold contains the 22% embedded tax burden from the Federal government and additional tax burden from state and local governments. America does not have to decline or 
be surpassed. We should adopt the FairTax and cut the size and scope, and therefore the burden, of government in half.

Bush promotes Gen. Petraeus to CentCom chief.

Why would Israel return the Golan Heights? Because Syria has changed its ways and proven such a peaceful neighbor to Israel? Sounds like appeasement to me. This will make Israel's enemies more aggressive, not more peaceful.

Zimbabwe election results begin to trickle out.

Sams's club limits sale of rice as Americans hoard food. That'll lead to more shortages. The days of cheap food are over, at least as long as government keeps screwing with the food market. Thanks for those ethanol subsidies, Republicans and Democrats. What's interesting about this is that maybe liberals including George Bush and John McCain will finally see the damage government does every time it sticks its nose in what should be a free market. Every sector of the economy, like health care, education, banking, finance, manufacturing, housing, all of them are currently damaged by government much the same way the food market is being damaged by government. Thanks to the interference of the US government, we don't have free markets in the US, and that has perverted the US and world economy to the detriment of every individual in the world. Maybe liberals will finally figure that out when they go to the grocery store. Get the government out of our markets!

We've been reading about promising new energy technology for decades, but it never appears. We need to rein in government so this new technology will be realized.

NYTimes calls Democrat race "mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contest." That describes the Democrat's campaign every presidential election year. Every election Democrats claim Republicans have an "October surprise" planned, yet every year the Democrat mouthpiece, the mainstream media, pulls out some bogus story attacking the Republican. Last time it was Rather's made-up story about Bush's national guard service. John Kerry also claimed Bush was going to bring back the draft. This is par for the course with Democrats, it's just unusual they do it to each other. Democrats are finally seeing other Democrats for who they really are and why they almost never win. They attack their opponents with phony race, class and gender attacks, and then they whine when legitimate critics like the Swift Boat Vets attack them.

Clinton wins a few more delegates than Obama in 9 point Pennsylvania victory.

Obama says they won't bring up the Clintons' old scandals. That's just dumb. Many voters today weren't even aware of politics in the 90s, and you can bet that Republicans will bring them up. The primaries are all about vetting the candidates and immunizing them for the general election. Obama isn't doing his part, and if Hillary beats him, it makes her a weaker candidate.

Ron Paul wins 16% of Republican vote in Pennsylvania.

'Anti-war critic tries to denigrate the victory of the Maliki government over al Sadr's Mehdi Army in Basra. Sadr's the one hiding out in Iran while Maliki walks the streets of Basra. This guy has been pushing only half the story from the beginning.

Man uses remote control security robot to protect his property. You know government demands a monopoly on force, so this won't last.

Scientists intend to control the weather. They can't even predict the weather, so that means we don't understand the mechanics of weather well enough to try and change it. The unintended consequences of this will be worse than the problems it hopes to solve. Reducing hurricanes will lead to widespread droughts.

China only has 12 days of coal reserves, and dropping. Something tells me this isn't a free market in China, or prices would have risen tremendously, prompting new investment in coal production.

Cato states Hillary hates freedom. Amen.

Cato explains that the failure of No Child Left Behind, the Dept. of Education, and education bureaucracies in general is that they all take power from the parents to insure their children obtain a quality education.