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Iran considers a US attack unlikely because of Iraq, Afghanistan, and domestic problems. That's a huge misjudgement of George Bush.

Reports claim that 5 Britons kidnapped in Iraq are being held by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran. Britain denies, but this is the same Britain that sits on its hands and talks after Iran kidnaps its sailors and marines. Winston Churchill is turning over in his grave.

Mugabe imprisons 250 opposition supporters including babies and small children in ongoing 
to intimidate voters before a hoped-for run-off election for president. Mugabe is the kind of monster that inevitably rises to the top of socialist governments to be a strong-man to enforce punishing socialist policies.

The Geneva Convention does not protect terrorists because they don't wear uniforms. Waterboarding is not torture.

Lawyer say Guantanamo drives prisoners insane. I think terrorists are insane to begin with. This is just another phony attempt to shut the place down. I think anybody who wants to shut down Guantanamo should volunteer to live next door to the released detainees for the next year. I'm sure they can talk the terrorists into becoming nice liberals like Obama's terrorist buddy Bill Ayers.

Today is the funeral for Matt Maupin, who was taken prisoner in Iraq and subsequently killed. I don't hear the liberals railing against the terrorists for not providing Geneva Convention protections to Maupin, who was a wearing a uniform and earned those protections.

Reason advocates a drug policy based on the alcohol model. I agree. Just like the original prohibition, the war on drugs is ineffective at stopping drug use, and the black market is far more costly and dangerous than the drugs themselves.

Overseas troops have trouble voting.

Obama's pastor Wright says he and his church received threats. Maybe. Maybe not. Anybody who says white Americans invented AIDS to kill off blacks has zero credibility. What we know for sure is every time he gets in the newspaper, Wright hurts Obama.

Bill Clinton taking over Hillary's campaign. Who wears the pants here? Who's running for president?

McCain is doing terrible raising funds. The Democrats are crushing him. In this particular case, I doubt it matters. Money will not overcome the problems Democrats have, and it won't overcome the anger that is bound to ensue from their media proxies calling every white person who doesn't support Obama a racist.

Democrats knee-jerk accusations of bigotry and racial motives are already being noticed.

Earthquake swarm grows in intensity in Reno, suggesting a major quake is coming.

Record snowfall in Anchorage. Must be global warming again.

College professor shows how liberals that undermined the discipline of kids and that their uninformed opinions were as valid as the informed opinions of their teachers, are reaping what they sowed in school violence, insolence, and poor performance, but even the 
who have been crippled by attacks are unwilling to let go of their dogma.

Using Time magazine's cover of Iwo Jima marines planting a tree, Jonah Goldberg describes how liberals attempt to work the public into war frenzy over non-war issues to advance their collectivist agendas because they understand how people sacrifice during wartime. But any call to sacrifice is counter-productive. America is the sum of it's people. If the people sacrifice except for winning a war, the country is diminished. That's stupid. We want the people to be richer and more powerful so America is richer and more powerful.

While lampooning the loony-left drive for biofuels, Mark Steyn explains the Time cover of Iwo Jima marines planting a tree is a call to eco-colonialism. Since we have plenty of trees in the US, we must project US power into third world countries to make them grow more trees. This is what happens when we apply "climate change solutions" instead of just adapting to inevitable climate change. This is what happens when we drink Al Gore's kool-aid, inflate our egos and beat our chests, proclaiming we're the great masters of the world who are causing climate change and, with just a few socialist policies, we can fix it. Real people starve to death. But liberals feel better about themselves, so it's OK.

The McCain-Feingold abomination enables lawsuits to be filed to prohibit political speech. As far as government aristocrats care, the First Amendment, and the Constitution, be damned.

Liberal blames Bush for the problems with the North Korea deal, and supports the Clinton deal the North Koreans never honored.

This essay from Kay Bailey Hutchinson highlights just how bad our government aristocrats are for the US and the world. Mrs. Hutchinson does an excellent job of exposing how bad ethanol subsidies are for the environment and food production. But at the end, she claims these subsidies made sense at one point, and that's just wrong. They never made sense. Subsidies never make sense, and her misunderstanding (or at least misrepresentation) of that leads to a poor policy decision. Even though she does a great job exposing the detrimental effects, she introduces legislation to freeze them at current levels, leaving us and the world with the pain they produced, instead of introducing legislation to abolish them completely. This is just stupid, but she acts like she's doing us a favor and being altruist and wise. Pfft.

The revelation that the Syrian facility bombed by Israel last fall was a nuclear facility provided by the North Koreans verifies the accuracy of Bush's axis of evil description of North Korea, Iran, and Syria. That Israel was able to penetrate state-of-the-art Russian radar, destroy the site, and exit Syrian airspace undetected tells the Iranians we can do the same to their nuclear facilities any time we want. What's left unsaid in this piece is why Russia and China are supplying 
weapons, technology, and diplomatic cover for this axis of evil. It's because China and Russia are using these terrorist proxies to drain our resources in a new Cold War of Terror.

PM Maliki and the political process was the big winner in Basra, and he has an opportunity to capitalize. You would think with all we've done for Saudi Arabia, they could open an embassy in Baghdad.

This is a great comparison of the decline of the British empire and analysis of the US position in the world. It's pretty long, but it reads easy and it brims with optimism, brushing off our entitlement crisis and education problems to be rectified. If they are rectified, the future is bright. But it finally does hit on the burden of government in the US compared to the rest of the world, even Europe. We talk the talk of freedom and free markets, but the rest of the world is walking the walk while we follow the Soviet model.

But it isn't political compromise we need - the compromise of Republican socialism and Democrats socialism is still socialism, and will accellerate our decline. By adopting freedom as our mantra, cutting the burden of government in half, adopting the FairTax and abolishing the government aristocracy by adopting term limits and making our representatives work in the real world for at least half a year, we'll stay the world leader for this entire century, and the rest of the world will have to adopt much greater freedom to compete. That makes for a much safer world.

Ralph Peters welcomes Def. Sec. Gates' nomination of Gen. Petraeus to command of CentCom, Gen. Odierno's nomination as commander in Iraq, and an Iraq veteran to Army vice-chief of staff.

Showing just how mistaken and bizarre the loony left,  that has so much power over the 
Democrat party and the mainstream media, of America is, Arriana Huffington calls Tony Snow "the enemy". How come the loony left never writes essays calling Osama bin Laden the enemy? When will the left figure out all Americans are in one boat, and stop attacking everybody else in the boat? Tony Snow is about as mainstream as it gets.

Democrat lists 10 facts in support of nominating Clinton over Obama.

Let's panic. Beetles are producing CO2 and causing the planet to overheat. I don't know how the planet has survived the hundreds of millions of years the beetles have been around. How come the warmers don't attack Gore for all the hot air he produces?

Bush basher beats up cerebral palsy victim in wheelchair.

9th Circuit rules that custom officials do not need reasonable suspicion to search laptops at the border.

Why is the city telling this property owner he can't display his art on his lawn? Where are the liberals to protect this artist? I guess this hurts the tax base, so in spirit of the Kelo decision, the city is intervening. Maybe they should tell him to paint his house and trim his bushes too.

Government has made doing business in the health care and health insurance sectors so painful that doctor stops dealing with health insurance companies at all, and just treats those without insurance. This is a real solution done by the free market in response to the problems caused by government.

Analysis of conditions that would lead to American success in Iraq.

Don't we have enough problems with false rape accusations without a woman claiming a man raped her over the phone?

California is using familial DNA tests to identify relatives of people who's DNA showed up in 
unsolved crimes in order to turn up leads. Now you can be interrogated by the police for crimes your relatives did even though you know nothing about them.

I prefer to see people praying for lower gas prices than asking Congress to get involved to "fix" the problem.

Copied from Fark: The Massachusetts Turnpike is not running a speed trap. The extra police patrols, speeding tickets, and the line item in the budget requiring increased ticket revenue are just a coincidence.