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Israel releases and deports Hezbollah spy in return for remains of Israeli soldiers killed in 2006 war.

Opposition leader detained in Zimbabwe for writing letter.

Expert panel of economists identifies solutions for the world's top 10 problems.

Florida and Michigan delegates get half votes. That's what Dean should have done in the first place and avoided all this rancor.

It's a smart, political move for Obama to quit his church, but what does it say about his character? Those people stood by him for 20 years, shared their most insane and hate-filled visions of the world with Obama, Obama embraced them, and they embraced each other. But as soon as the going got tough, Obama threw them under the bus. With friends like Obama... But this won't end the effect his church has on Obama. You can't just erase 20 years of dangerous radicalism as if it never happened, though I'm sure Obama is counting on the press to cover for him, and they will do their best. He tried to make it sound like he quit for the good of the church. This guy knows how to play, but because he took that approach, he didn't really separate himself.

Children are twice as likely to die before adulthood if they have a father over 45.

Congresswoman has a plan to let states determine if they want to drill off their coasts instead of the Federal government. The Marxist environmentalists won't like that. It's far easier for them to lobby just in Washington than in every state capital.

Despite Supreme Court ruling protecting our votes, Georgia Democrats sue over voter ID law. Every American can get an ID if they want to vote. Get over it.

The press is harder on McCain than Obama. They couldn't get any easier on Obama, and they won't, but they'll get a lot harder on McCain.

Government grants its citizens permission to hang clothes on clotheslines. What's wrong with this picture?

Author shows that higher food prices are directly related to ethanol subsidies and says the corn lobby and our government are committing crimes against humanity.

Article highlights the double-standard the press applies to gaffes by Democrats, especially black Democrats, and Republicans. If John McCain had made all the gaffes Obama has made, the press would have hounded him out of the election by now, and still by far the most publicized gaffes of the campaign are McCain's. 57 states? Did he just eat some ketchup? How do you make that mistake?

I don't think Thomas Sowell is going to win any debates by saying its OK for police to miss dozens of times when firing at a suspect. That might be acceptable for a layman, but we train police to handle these kinds of situations. And the more interesting point anyway is that if a group of laymen fired dozens of shots at a suspect and killed him, all those laymen would be imprisoned for manslaughter at least, and most likely murder. The law is supposed to be the same for everybody, but it's obviously not in this case.

Milton Friedman got it right when he said "It's just obvious that you can't have free immigration and a welfare state." But this argument should be used as an argument against the welfare state, not illegal immigration. We have plenty of arguments against illegal immigration without it.

Ann Coulter has noticed that liberals enthusiastically compare Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and any other Republican to Hitler, but they get outraged when somebody compares Ahmadinejad to Hitler. Funny.

Charles Krauthammer mocks the global warming alarmists declaration that the debate about man-made global warming is over by pointing out that Newton's laws of mechanics stood for centuries before Einstein proved them wrong. If Newton's simple laws can be proven wrong after centuries, there's no way the effects of man-made CO2 on our complex climate system is settled after a couple decades. That's why there are no laws in science (laymen call them laws, not scientists), only theories.

Huey Long had a real chance to win a 3rd party candidacy. Can you imagine how bad off the world would be if that socialist had won? FDR did enough damage as it was.

George Will illustrates how the Warner-Lieberman Climate Security Act carbon cap and trade scheme is really a huge, socialist power grab and a hidden tax. Both parties love to use the language of free markets to camouflage their socialist plans.

Mark Steyn presents some stunning statistics to show how abortion is being used to wipe out women - not free them. This is scary. The unintended consequences of policy never cease to amaze me.

China's cyber-militia.

I always wondered how people typed these funky characters.

It looks like the retro-rockets of the Phoenix lander may have exposed ice directly under the lander.