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Ohio's march toward totalitarianism continues as Canton promises to imprison citizens who don't cut their grass.

Right after the US expands agricultural subsidies and spending, the EU plans to reform its wasteful agricultural spending. Once again, we're moving in the wrong direction while the rest of the world moves in the right direction.

Senators are loading up the Iraq war spending bill with tons of domestic spending programs. These people are sick. Stop wasting our money!

In response to Iran's nuclear program, 13 middle eastern nations have nuclear programs. I hope we do a better job of insuring their nuclear energy programs, not nuclear weapons programs. And we're funding all this by not drilling in the US and developing alternative energy power plants. Thanks to our government, the middle east is going to be weaned off oil before we are.

In the name of the war on terror, UK plans to create a database of every phone call, email, and time spent on the internet. This doesn't help fight terrorism. It helps government abuse the people. You can bet our government will follow this plan.

The China earthquake buried 32 sources of radiation, 30 of which have been secured. Death toll tops 71,000.

India and Pakistan resume talks with India asking Pakistan to control terrorism.

Obama has connections to lobbyists too.

Geraldine Ferraro calls Obama sexist and says she may not vote for him.

Hillary Clinton claims popular vote lead. Of course, she's counting Florida and Michigan, where she pulled underhanded tactics and campaigned while the other candidates didn't.

Cato reports that there's nothing surprising about states failing to meet the mandates of No Child Left Behind. Mandates from on high are worse than useless. The solution to our failing schools, and everything else that ails us, lies with free people working together in the communities, not with ever more oppressive government.

UK law allows the creation of human/animal hybrids. I don't mean a gene here and a gene there. I mean half-human, half-animal.

New hacker attack uses firmware flashing mechanism to permanently destroy systems.

Christopher Hitchens like McCain's idea of the president appearing before Congress and answering questions every week.

Manhattan restaurant charges $175 for a burger.

I hope Teddy Kennedy recovers from his malignant brain tumor, but I'm sick to my stomach hearing about what a great man he is. This is the drunk who killed a woman and got away with it, and he's spent the last 40 years trying to destroy this country. I sure hope his days in government are over.

House passes bill empowering the Justice Dept. to sue OPEC. I'm sure they'll find sympathetic juries, but nothing will happen. This will only make relations worse.

I'll sleep easier knowing that scientists found half of the missing matter.

In an interesting take on collectivism, that small, organized groups of activists form a sort of collectivist minority, author points out that Obama failed the farm bill test, voting for handouts to many special interests at the expense of the people, while McCain passed the test and may have found a huge issue to run on - government reform.

This is a stunning expose of the consequences of tax policy in the US. In post-WWII USA, tax revenues are always 19.5% of GDP independent of tax rates! To increase revenue faster, we have to increase GDP faster, and that means we should lower tax rates. We've always know lower tax rates increase revenue, but to have this shown so clearly is wonderful.

Ralph Peters is bitter that the media isn't covering our success in Iraq.

All the predictions of the global warming alarmists are wrong. Climate change is getting colder, not warmer. Warmer temperatures reduce hurricane activity.

"The Europeans are irrelevant to the world’s great issues, obsessed by internal process, culturally arrogant, craven in the face of the US and blind to the rise of Asia." The security welfare we provide Europe makes them act like welfare recipients. Thanks to us, they're satisfied enough with the outside world that they can just sit on the sidelines and criticize. They don't have to lift a finger.

US negotiators claim North Korea is about to declare its nuclear program. I guess that's a step forward, but what good does it do us? We know they have nuclear bombs. We have no way of knowing how many or where they are, and we have no reason to suspect NK will tell us the truth. I'm sure NK enjoyed everything we've given them so far for the nothing (NK mothballing a decrepit nuclear facility was not a gain for us) we've received in return.

France admits it held informal talks with Hamas. International support is the only thing that makes Hamas dangerous.

Iraqi detainees and the parents of juveniles detained in Iraq want to stay in prison and get educated. This fits with the information that the military has been giving out that the vast majority of detainees were just opportunistic, not hard-core terrorists, and we're providing them with a better opportunity.

Florida Democrats embrace school choice, but what are the graduation rates for those in the program?

Americans are fat because of inadequate federal dollars.

Yet another plan to make students feel good by giving them a minimum of 50 points even if they earn fewer. Nobody has ever explained how making students feel good about themselves by artificially inflating their grades helps them learn. That's because it doesn't. All it does is teach the kids they don't have to perform as well to get better grades, and that's counter productive.

Sexually engineering, providing hormone treatments to make them appear as the opposite sex, a child because the child feels like he or she is trapped in the body of the opposite sex is insane. This is a behavioral issue, all children feel it to a lesser or greater extent, and no child should be subjected to such sexual engineering regardless of the child's wishes. One of the doctors in this article proved this was a behavioral issue because one identical twin had it and not the other, therefore it couldn't be a genetic issue with that child (and most likely no others), but the doctor saw it the other way and sexually engineered the child anyway. Sexually engineering a child, whether the child wants it or not, is grotesque child abuse. This is like cutting off a child's hand because the child thinks the hand is trying to hurt it.

The people of Gaza support Hamas while it kills Israelis, kills Muslims, and takes money meant for public services to buy weapons to kill more people. But will they continue supporting Hamas after they cut off internet porn?