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China joins its ally in the new Cold War of Terror in condemning US missile shield. This is pretty transparent. China and Russia want to be able to nuke the cities of the US and our allies. They want their proxy states to be able to blow up Europeans cities. Too bad. It's telling that Medvedev's first official trip is to China to declare this opposition to a defensive system. Only aggressors would care.

People who think they were illegally spied upon may get day in court. If they were suspected to be terrorist sympathizers, it can't be illegal because of the president's constitutional responsibility to intercept communications of enemy sympathizers during a time of war. If they weren't, they may have a case.

Senate committee passes legislation requiring anybody working in the mortgage industry to provide fingerprints into the finger print database.

A number of the supposed children taken from the Yearning from Zion ranch were in fact adults. The burden of proof is on the state, not the targets of the raid. The state botched this big-time. But it's absurd to compare this abuse of power by civilian authorities in the US to prisoners of war, who don't have all the rights of prisoners of war because they don't wear uniforms and therefore don't get the protections of the Geneva Convention, being held by the military at Guantanamo.

With all the success we've been having in Iraq, victory seems more likely every day. Liberals hate that idea. But we haven't won yet, and we can't lose our will now. I have no problems with an Iraq embezzlement probe. Government did a terrible job managing taxpayer money in Iraq - just like it does everywhere else.

Another subpoena for Rove is just more congressional grandstanding.

Reason completely misrepresents the power imbalance in Washington when it claims the presidential power is the most important issue this election. That's absurd. Congress has spent over 200 years expanding its power, and the last 100 years, Congress has trampled the Constitution to the point it's nearly meaningless. You can't wipe your butt without Congress being involved in your life. But the president has almost no power over Americans. He has the power to charge you with crimes, which is the same as it always has been (though Congress has created a ton of new, ridiculous crimes), and he might wiretap your phone if he suspects you are a terrorist sympathizer during a time of war (which Congress controls). The president's impact on our daily lives is about zero. Congress' impact on our daily lives is crushing. There's no comparison (though the Court is expanding its power to compete with Congress).

While Republicans are losing seats in hard-core conservative districts, Britons are electing conservatives in hard-core liberal districts. The world is still conservative. This shows how badly Republicans have alienated conservatives and everybody else, when Democrats can convince Americans they are more conservative than Republicans, and quite a few are.

We all know that the Clintons will say or do anything - lie, cheat, steal etc. - to get their way, but this out there even for them. Hillary Clinton said in an interview that she's continuing the race because Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June. Then to cover up for it, she said the reason she said it was because Teddy Kennedy's cancer has been on her mind. If Hollywood has some horrible, evil character say this in a movie, we'd all stop watching because it would be so unbelievable.

Obama supporters are preparing the ground for the general election, calling any criticism of Obama "swiftboating" before the criticism even comes out. I hope we see the same kind of honest, accurate criticism of Obama as the swift boat guys gave of Kerry, allowing the voters great insight into his character. Mr. I was in Cambodia at Christmas 1968 when Richard Nixon was president - except he wasn't. If Obama has terrible skeletons in his closet, Clinton should have exposed them. That's the function of the primaries - vet the candidates so the winner doesn't get sunk in the general election.

Now that McCain is the nominee, he no longer cares about securing our border first, he's going straight to comprehensive immigration reform (read amnesty), just as many of us suspected. Plus Barack Obama names another corrupt Washington insider to his campaign to help select a VP.

Cato explains that Democrats have sold out to labor unions and are betraying our allies in Columbia by refusing a vote on the free trade agreement.

Congressman ups the ante on windfall profits taxes by proposing a new bureaucracy that would determine reasonable profits for companies and then tax the excess. I think the only history our government aristocrats ever studied was written by Karl Marx.

Government forbids drilling for over half of our oil and 40 percent of our natural gas. They tax gasoline mercilessly. Then they drag oil executives before Congress and blame them for high prices. Chuck Schumer busted for lying about the effect on prices from drilling in ANWR. And don't forget coasts where government forbids us from drilling too.

If officials enforcing illegal immigration laws didn't target Latinos, who would they target?

How stupid is it to have to cover up naked Egyptian mummies? Boortz wonders if the offended visitors were Muslims.

The European Human Rights Court will hear the case of a chimpanzee. This should have been summarily dismissed with extreme prejudice. Can the people who brought the case be charged with contempt of court?

Utopians love this idea of a centrally planned, carbon neutral, no car city in Abu Dhabi, but I bet the only way it works is if its heavily subsidized by oil money.

Funny rebate cartoon.