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UK extends time it can hold terrorist suspects without charges to 42 days. MP quits in protest.

Supreme Court rules Guantanamo detainees can challenge their detention in US courts. That's what Bush gets for getting the courts involved with tribunals. He should have just held them without trial like prisoners of war have always been held.

Mugabe's government continues its political assault on the opposition and plans to charge a high-ranking official of the opposition with treason. Mugabe's militia cut one hand and both feet off wife of opposition leader then burn her alive. Government confiscates US food aid and hands it out at Mugabe rally. Why aren't liberals calling for us to invade Zimbabwe?

Obama's VP vetter quits over his ties to subprime mortgage crisis. The aristocrats are dropping like flies because they're all corrupt.

Unicorn deer in Italy.

US life expectancy passes 78.

The sorry state of free speech outside of the US.

It's good to see somebody holding the global warming frauds accountable - real estate developers sue Greenpeace over it's alarmism which hurt property values.

Breakdown of who owns oil companies. Pension plans and mutual funds. That's who windfall profits taxes will hurt directly. They'll hurt all of us indirectly.

Excellent essay highlights one of the biggests frustrations of dealing with collectivists of any kind - they purposely misrepresent government as society. Then they paint anybody who is against government doing something as not compassionate. The only way collectivists can make headway in a debate is by misrepresenting free market advocates. If you're against socialized medicine, you don't care about health care for the poor, etc. That's crap.

Minimum wage is keeping teenagers from finding summer jobs. Who would have guessed? Most of the recent increase in jobless rates is among teens and minorities - i.e. minimum wage jobs.

A college professor tries teaching high school. This is what the government take-over of schools by liberals has created. When are we going to wake up and put government back in its box so we can excel as individuals and a society?

Cell phones make popcorn pop. Or the heater under the table. I want to try this now.

Republicans blame Democrats for high oil prices. That's accurate, by why didn't Republicans take care of this when they controlled both houses and the presidency for 6 years? They were too busy doubling the size of the Dept. of Education and creating new, unsustainable entitlements in the grand tradition of big-government liberals.

I agree with Dick Morris that Hillary is just waiting for Barack Obama to get exposed on something between now and the convention so she can sweep in and save the party and take the nomination. What's up with Obama and the birth certificate? What's he hiding? It would be interesting if he had legally changed his name from something American sounding to Barack Hussein Obama. Everybody used to call him Barry. Maybe that's because it's his real name.

The economies of right to work states grow faster than the economies of forced unionization states. That's no surprise. No wonder Democrats want to get rid of private ballots (Democrats would just as soon get rid of all votes by peasants in favor of intimidation tactics) in favor of card checks to unionize.

Church tries to use the power of government to ban sports at the same time as church.

Gun-owners want open carry. Absolutely. Concealed carry makes it harder to get your gun and is by definition an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.

Cato understand there's nothing compassionate about welfare, and unemployment benefits increase unemployment.