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Nancy Pelosi may hoist Republicans on their own petard. The Iraq war has been funded as emergency spending instead of going through the normal budget process since it started. Now Nancy Pelosi is considering skipping the appropriations committee process because the funding is emergency funding. Republicans are unhappy, but they're the ones who kept Iraq war funding as emergency funding instead of using the proper budget process for predictable, non-emergency, spending. Why is Pelosi adding $70 billion to the bill? You can bet that money isn't going to the troops.

Oil over $120. Blaming the falling dollar, OPEC reports oil could hit $200. How's the Fed policy looking now? Thanks Greenspan. Thanks Bernanke. Greenspan knew exactly what was coming, and that's why he retired. Why should OPEC pump more oil to cover up for bad US government policy? I don't blame a bit. We should take responsibility for this and oust both parties from power, replacing them with libertarians who will get government off our backs so free market forces can strengthen the dollar and increase the supply of oil and gasoline, driving down prices.

An ally actually did the US a favor. Azerbaijan held up Russian nuclear shipment intended for Iran until its determined the shipment meets the UN sanctions.

Government witness claims Obama partner Rezko said Fitzgerald would be replaced as UN Attorney. Too bad that didn't happen before his witch-hunt against Libby.

UN sets up food crisis task force. You can be certain task force personnel will siphon off food and sell it for personal profit in new heights of corruption.

While  we're talking about food shortages, Australian scientists say they found a gene that speed up metabolism - allowing mice to lose weight while eating a lot. Great. Fat people will be able to eat even more than they do already. And probably die younger. The biggest cause of weight problems is we're starving ourselves of essential nutrients by eating processed food. We have to keep eating it because it doesn't satisfy the needs of our body.

Chinese are selling their children into slavery.

Bush blames Congress for economic problems. He's half right. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

Hillary Clinton supporter organized Rev. Wright's appearance at the Press Club. Funny. Press Club denies. Gingrich suggests Wright may be intentionally sabotaging Obama. I think Wright is more worried about Wright than Obama. Obama finally disavows Wright, saying "the man I saw yesterday was not the man I knew for 20 years." Baloney. We could all figure out what kind of extremist Wright was after listening to a few minutes of sermons. Then Obama must have 
really poor judgment of men and situations. Now Obama is going to try and convince us that Wright has suddenly changed, not that Obama either misjudged him for 20 years, or that he welcomed Wright's extremism for 20 years, and only now that he's running for president is he repudiating it. Any way you slice it, this should disqualify Obama for office.

Obama's sudden and opportunistic repudiation of the man who married him and inspired the title of his book also says that Obama can't be trusted. Now he's saying that the man who baptized his children and was invited to be an adviser of his campaign wasn't his spiritual adviser. Obama attached himself to a crackpot for 20 years for political gain, and because of it, now he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

In a vote buying extravaganza, Hillary Clinton requests $2.3 billion in earmarks for 2009 - nearly 3 times the next closest Senator.

Through strength of numbers and on the heals of a fiery speech, Ron Paul supporters take control of Nevada state convention and force rules changes to support Ron Paul - all by the rules. In response, the Republican establishment cancelled the convention.

McCain the Democrat calls for federal taxpayers to foot the tab for Americans without health insurance. What passes for choice in this election is the choice between bigger government and way bigger government. That's no choice at all. Why would anybody bother buying insurance if federal taxpayers provided "guaranteed access"? This will drive up the cost and problems of health care like every other government foray into the health care market. I love it when politicians expand government intervention in a market then claim they support the free market.

This is a really weak argument that the CIA enhanced photos from the Syrian nuclear reactor site. They probably did run some digital enhancement to have a better picture of the facility.

Reason describes how to build a gasifier to produce energy from carbon waste products. Why hasn't this been industrialized yet?

Microsoft creates USB thumb device to help cops quickly extract forensic evidence from computers. There's nothing wrong with this, but you know it will be misused.

Cato says the new farm bill is loaded up with subsidies and nutrition pork.

Cato explains the Fed has painted itself into a corner with recession on one wall and inflation on the other. The Fed should deal with inflation and the market recover itself (government spending and tax cuts would help that recovery).

Cato supports federalism in determining the trade-offs between voter fraud and access.

Contrary to what Democrats would have you believe, the percentage of income taxes paid by the rich are going up faster than their the incomes.

Boortz reports the IRS wants to tax personal phone calls on business cell phones. That'll be some fun record-keeping, won't it. How about we adopt the FairTax instead.

Roger Clemens is taking him down in flames. The day after his lawyer claimed Clemens never had an affair with young country singer McCready, McCready refuses to deny the same. He'll be lucky if he avoids a penalty for perjoring himself before Congress.

Washington politicians are pretending they were unaware of the consequences on food prices of mandating ethanol. Boortz provides links to many old news articles explaining the effects. It's sad the American people would let politicians get away with this. The politicians are saying that they had no idea that significantly reducing the supply of corn for food would cause food prices to rise. Either our politicians are lying or their dumber than fish. Either way, we should not allow them to keep their jobs.

What is going on with this fat acceptance movement? Instead of grabbing the donut, go for a walk. How hard is it? First you couldn't discriminate because of race or sex. Since I'm a huge supporter of freedom and private property rights, I don't like those laws. An employer can discriminate because he doesn't like a candidate's eyebrows or voice or pimples or one leg is longer than another or anything else. The law should treat everybody equally, but you can't force that on free people, otherwise it creates a situation in which the law doesn't treat everybody equally. For example, if an employer can't discriminate on race, why should he be allowed to discriminate against blonds? If an employer wants to be stupid and arbitrary and hurt his own business because of it, that's his right.

But when the movement started to ban discrimination against homosexuals, the debate changed.
At first, it was just about things you can't change about yourself. You can't chose your skin color. You can't chose your gender. But having sex is a choice, and you can chose your partners, or chose none. It's behavior, and that opened the door to making the case that government can force employers not to discriminate on behavior, which is really dangerous. I understand that there are genetic predispositions to homosexuality, but having sex with any given partner is still ultimately a choice. There are genetic predispositions to being overweight too, but ultimately, eating too much and exercising too little is a choice. We're going to see more and more people who make unpopular choices shoving door open to government to protect them at the expense of freedom.

I'm not saying homosexuals or fat people should change their behavior. I'm saying they shouldn't use the force of government to take freedom of discretion from employers. Everybody has the right to be fat. Everybody has the right to refuse to hire fat people. That's freedom.

George Will sees an opportunity for McCain to go into inner cities and champion school choice.

Expert climatologist skeptical of global warming fraud is under fire by his Colorado State University management. This is typical of skeptics who speak out.