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Democrat Senator Chris Dodd who chairs the banking committee which has laws dealing with Countrywide Mortgage in front of it, received preferential treatment in a loan from Countrywide, as did another Democrat senator. These Senators are Democrats leaders who decry and endlessly investigate phony charges of Republican corruption. But like Harry's Reid's corrupt land deals, this doesn't make the front pages or end up in the courts like imaginary Republican scandals the Plane non-affair and the firing Attorneys non-affair.

British PM Brown announces new EU sanctions on Iran and additional troops for Afghanistan. Iran withdraws $75 billion to protect it from being frozen. Cato says the sanctions are too little to be effective.

Taliban take over several Afghan cities.

US and Chinese firms to sign billions worth of agreements. What I hate about articles like this is that they never point out the Chinese firms are owned by the government of China. This looks like a standard market action, but when firms are own by the communist government, it's very different.

The Saudis will increase oil output, but they call for the west to lower taxes too. Good for the Saudis. They don't have to just take abuse from our politicians who are the real problem behind high fuel prices.

Reason likes the idea of having every prisoner of war ever captured by the US having access to US courts for habeas corpus. That just stupid.

Judge rules that the trail of emails lost by the White House need not be made public. This kind of squabbling is indicative of how stupid our government has become.

On what constitutional ground did the Supreme Court change the law and allow foreigners to stay past their visa limits? This is another assault of private contracts which are becoming worthless.

Michael Reagan loses it on air and calls for shooting 9/11 conspiracy theorist. He's since apologized, but that's ridiculous. He should be suspended.

Democrats unhappy Lieberman criticizes Obama. It's just so easy and so obvious.

Because Obama ducked town hall meeting with McCain aired by Fox, liberals are calling it an infomercial for McCain. If Obama wasn't a coward, he would have shown up and made it a debate. All the free press the other stations give to Obama and his supporters are never called infomercials.

McCain reaches out to Clinton supporter by saying he supported Ginsberg and Breyer as justices. We don't know what McCain actually said, but this won't sit well with conservatives. Look for McCain to have to make a clarification.

Iowa floods reminiscent of 1913 floods. Fortunately, not here or my building would be under water.

Designer bacteria can convert organic material into crude oil facsimile. This sounds like a good way to kill off all living things.

Cato reports that India has joined Russian and China in opposition to Kosovar independence. China obviously fears this will embolden Tibet. Maybe India fears it will embolden Kashmir.

Excellent analysis showing how the green movement only attacks private sector oil and mineral exploitation, never leftist, government-owned companies doing the same, because they're really interested in Marxism, not environmentalism.

Why in the world would voters elect a judge who has a poster of Che Guevara on his wall? Is that his model of justice? And isn't scary that Obama supporters so often identify with Che? Naturally, Ohio voters did it.

The founder of the Weather Channel rips Al Gore and his fraud about anthropogenic global warming. He gets into the history, including Gore's mentor, the science, and the perversion of the science for political and economic gain. Nice job.