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Fuel price protests spread across Europe. $4 US gas prices are still much better than Europe. Investigation into oil market to see if prices are being manipulated.

CIA chief Hayden reports that al Qaeda is nearly defeated and on the defensive, but still dangerous. I doubt liberals will admit that Bush's strategy is the cause of this. Iran and al Qaeda in secret talks. Sunni and Shia are a lot closer to each other than to the west.

Allegations of human rights violations by immigration enforcement officials.

Prototype EU plane has a camera in the back of every seat to monitor facial expressions of passengers. In 10 years, we will be watched everywhere we go outside our homes in many cities and computers will be comparing our movements and facial expressions to algorithms for criminal behavior, and we'll be arrested, tried and convinced if the computer decides our patterns matched those of criminals.

111 nations without cluster bombs ban them, while the big nations with them, don't.

Indian villagers burn woman alive for being a witch.

New pastor problem from Obama's radical racially charged church explodes in his face. He can't distance himself from the church and the rants he subjected himself and his family to for 20 years.

Obama is a gaffe machine, and the press is ignoring his unprecedented number of gaffes. He's had so many gaffes, and such bad gaffes, you have to question his intelligence.

Obama is staunchly against free trade, urging Bush to reject a free trade agreement with South Korea that would boost the US economy by $10 to $12 billion. How can that be considered populist? This is guy is wrong on everything.

Susan Sarandan vows to move to Canada or Italy if McCain is elected. Somebody finally came up with a reason to tempt me to vote for McCain. I bet this wins McCain a ton of votes from people who would love to see Sarandan leave the US. I wonder why she didn't pick Cuba or Venezuela, which seem more suited to her?

Preview of Google Android phone.

Congratulations to Tom Coburn for exposing the liberalism of big-government Republicans and explaining there's nothing compassionate about welfare or big government. Reason exposes phony compassionate conservative who tried to use Bible to justify the false compassion of welfare in a response to Coburn.

How can it be unconstitutional for a city to ban renting to illegal aliens? That isn't regulating immigration into the country. That's a bogus decision, and I wish the city would appeal it.

Where in the world does the government think it gets the power to block anybody from using the label "Try Legal Weed"?

4 day school weeks to save on gas. I bet the students love this.

"Save the Males" explains how our anti-male culture hurts families and children.

One of Milton Friedman's coauthors writing for Cato considers the Bernanke Fed to be a failure, creating moral hazard that has extended the credit crisis and left the economy vulnerable to disaster.

Cato explains that the technology doesn't exist to meet the Warner-Lieberman's misnamed Climate Security Act.

Cato has jumped on my plan to take the definition of marriage away from government and allow consenting adults to enter whatever life contracts they wish. I knew they'd come around. ETA: Boy was I wrong. This was published in 1997. I'm late to the party (though I did come up with the idea independently - great minds, you know).

Government policies make oil more expensive, make us less wealthy, and as a result make the world a dirtier place. Oops.

McCain is making hay with my plan for a world organization of democracies, which he calls a league of democracies, which I never did post here, unfortunately, though I did post it here. That old version was before Putin turned Russia back into a totalitarian nation. That's exactly why I suggested the organization have the power to boot nations out.

Thomas Sowell says liberals use blacks as mascots to make themselves look good, not to help blacks. No white person could possibly get away with those comments despite their accuracy.

Ann Coulter lampoons Obama's desire to talk to Ahmadinejad since he was scared to engage in a debate moderated by Brit Hume.

Hugh Hewitt suggest Barack Obama should read Michael Yon's book. Amanda Carpenter shows that McCain's invitation to Obama to visit Iraq is scoring points. Obama is looking less informed every day. And he doesn't seem very intelligent to begin with. Unintelligent and uninformed is a bad combination.

Muslims refuse to wear work uniforms, are fired because of it, and subsequently fight to change the dress code. The company should stand firm, and when the inevitable lawsuit happens, it should be tossed out.

In an absurd political stunt, Congressman threatens to have Rove arrested if he invokes executive privilege to avoid testifying about the non-issue of the firing of US Attorneys. Democrats would be far better served by doing something useful.

State by state analysis of how much our economy will be hurt and money will be lost if the Warner-Lieberman Climate Security Act supported by John McCain (and possibly Obama and Clinton, though they support a more draconian carbon tax as well) becomes law. Ohio would lose about 6,000 jobs by 2012 and 125,000 by 2030. Call or write your senators today.

The columnist/activist who wanted to execute a citizens arrest on John Bolton was blocked by security. Too bad.

Boortz presented this as a teacher getting her comeuppance, but it sounds to me more like this kid's parents are in denial about how rotten their kid is. Teachers aren't allowed to discipline children in schools anymore, so I bet it's horribly frustrating when parents send rotten brats to school then act like they're little angels and they refuse to discipline them at home. It sounds like this kid should have been removed from a well-behaved class long ago.

Chart of states that provide worker's comp to illegal aliens.

Government schools are teaching Islam to students. Liberals would have burst some arteries if this principal had taught Christianity like this. Where's the liberal outrage?

Apparently Geraldine Ferraro never noticed that the press has never just reported on a campaign but has always been a strategist and promoter for the Democrat. She only finally noticed because she was so used to it, she just expected the press would be the same for Hillary, but instead it worked for Obama. Sexism wasn't Hillary's problem. Falsely promoting herself as if she had some experience Obama did not, then assuming she was the going to win instead of planning for a long primary, then sticking her foot in her mouth over and over (which the press reported, while it didn't report Obama doing the same) finished her. If Obama hadn't been running the press would have been out there beating false sexism drums instead of beating false racism drums.

Canadian Imam uses polygamy to attack Canadian laws and gain ground for Sharia.

Bob Beckel must be doing drugs if he thinks Obama will blow out McCain. He even thinks Obama will win Ohio after Hillary spanked Obama here.

Karl Rove highlights how Obama parses, dissembles and blames others for every controversy surrounding him. He's very much like Bill Clinton in that regard. The reason Clinton was so successful at getting away with it was the press was his willing ally, and the same for Obama. But the internet is huge today compared to the 90s, so it'll be interesting to see if Obama gets away with it. I don't think any politician will be able to get away with being as slimy as Clinton was ever again, but Obama's going to try. The internet is a great tool for raising money, but I think every politician will be forced to be more honest in the future. It may not swing elections just yet, because both parties are full of liars, but politicians may have to change that. I'm hopeful.

Ralph Peters lists the good things that have occurred in Iraq since since the surge, the time that liberals want to pretend didn't happen. Besides having al Qaeda on the verge of defeat...

George Will doesn't like the idea of the president going to Congress for Q&A sessions because it will just become an opportunity by the president to grandstand and elevate his importance above Congress'. It's not like the leaders of Congress can't communicate with the president.

Victor Davis Hanson understands that we (baby boomers) are to blame for our own problems. The temper tantrums and self-indulgence of the 60s led to the hyper-partisan and self-indulgent government we have today. We have the government we voted for and the problems it has caused are our responsibility. Our government is a reflection of us. Our problems have been in the making since the 60s. The energy crisis has been decades in the making because we restricted developing our own supplies of oil and cost effective alternatives like nuclear and coal. The unsustainable entitlements have been understood for decades as well.

Life as a construct in a computer simulation.