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The BBC reports that $26 billion was lost to war profiteering in Iraq, making it possibly the biggest profiteering scandal in history.

Bush and EU negotiate tougher sanctions on Iran.

Reports that the US fired a missile into Pakistan. Let's hope this one got Osama bin Laden.

Social Security debit cards are like a gift card from taxpayers. Isn't that sweet. Except that money is being taken from taxpayers by force at unsustainable levels and is going to cause the collapse of the US.

Seeing that US consumption has dropped, the Saudis increase oil production to lower prices.

I'm glad to see ISPs will block child porn sites. They should have done it without government interference.

Good for Republicans for blocking windfall profits taxes on oil companies. It's about time they did something that wasn't socialist. Too bad they didn't promote free markets instead of government power the 6 years they were in power.

Obama's VP selection guru was immersed in the sub-prime meltdown.

McCain wants low corporate income taxes (if low taxes is good for corporations, then they're good for individuals too, and if low income taxes are good for corporations and people, no income taxes are best - adopt the FairTax) but he wants to shareholders to approve CEO pay. I like that idea, but why does government have to enforce it? Why don't shareholders demand approval for CEO pay? I love the irony: "Everyone else could choose a vastly less complicated system with two tax rates and a generous standard deduction." Generous standard deduction. According to government aristocrats like McCain, government is being generous when it allows us to keep some of our own money before it starts taking it from us by force.

It's an exaggeration to say open source killed the tool development business. It's fair to say that many tools have become commodities, and those commodities have been taken over by open source, but there's still room for great, new tools developed and sold for profit.

Quantum entanglement to be tested between earth and ISS.

Archaeologists in Jordan unearth first church - dating from 33AD.

Brian Williams tells grads that the US is broken and they must fix it. But he doesn't tell them why it's broken - big government - and he promotes the ideals of collectivism that are what is breaking the country. This is what passes for unbiased in modern journalism.

1 in 4 New Yorkers has herpes! That tells you something is very rotten in New York.

Solar cycle 24 is still a no-show. The face of the sun is "dead." Not encouraging. The earth's biosphere is thriving thanks to warming and CO2. And the Marxists and government are going to put an end to the thriving biosphere and retard human development both. Same story from Financial Times.

Cato provides the numbers that show most of what Obama is saying about the economy under Bush is a lie, and provides a resource for Obama to fact check.

Cato says E-verify would make life harder on employers and workers and would expand to intrude into every aspect of our lives. True. We should just demand employers check 2 IDs for employees, a picture ID and a birth certificate. Every job I've ever had required that. It's not a hassle to anybody, you just show your IDs. We don't need any big, intrusive government to plan to insure employers hire legal workers.

Cato explains that the new state and local ordinances against illegal immigration highlight the Federal government's abdication of its responsibility to control immigration, creating waste.

Cato explains that Tom Delay is a big part of the reason Republicans are getting their clocks cleaned by Democrats.

Pushy parents force school to have 25 Snow Whites and no secondary characters in play in Japan.