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So secure in their power and safety, Pakistan Taliban publicly execute 2 men for helping the US in a recent missile strike.

Oil is over $142 a barrel.

Looks like the ATF is trying to grab headlines by raiding Blackwater armory. At least nobody got killed this time.

In a remarkable benefit for trade and human development, the north pole may be clear of ice this year allowing shipping between the Atlantic and the Pacific for some period of time. More ground will be available for farming. This will make for cheaper goods and services, lifting people out poverty all around the world. Naturally, liberals are alarmed. They shouldn't worry. That gain in prosperity won't last. We're heading into a new cold period full of crop failures and starvation for a decade or 2. That should make liberals happy.

This article claims the ice will gone from the north pole "for the first time in human history". That's just a bald-faced lie. Global temperatures were higher 800 years ago than today, and much higher than that 3,000 years ago and probably many more times during this interglacial period. I heard yesterday that the planet was so warm in 4,000 BC that the coast of Antarctica was free of ice, which it hasn't been since. All of that is in human history. These alarmists have to resort to outright lies to promote their agenda.

Zimbabwe voters stay home instead of voting in sham election. Mugabe's forces force people to go to the polls.

North Korea demolishes cooling tower at decrepit nuclear plant as a symbol that it hasn't given up anything of value but gained quite a bit from gaming these nuclear negotiations. This is another step in a well orchestrated sham.

The Supreme Court struck down another aspect of McCain-Feingold - the millionaires amendment that restricted people who used their own money in a campaign. Striking down this First Amendment abomination is taking so long we'll dead before it's finished.

Political correctness run amok: city cancels presentation of "Ragtime" because of racial language.

The Reason staff comments on the decision by the Supreme Court reaffirming the individual right to keep and bear arms.

Democrats overwhelmingly join Republicans in support for winning the Iraq war. Better late than never. I have yet to see hundreds of Democrats with Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton in the lead walk up to microphones and apologize to the troops, Gen. Petraeus, and the American people for outright lying about our prospects and progress in Iraq and for declaring the war lost while our troops were still in the process of fighting and winning it.

Obama's strategy to reach out to evangelicals won't win them over in mass, but it may win over enough for him to win the election. Or it might. It seems to me a presidential candidate should reach out to every constituency, find the common ground that exists, and try to win over some votes. I think that's how you build consensus. Ignoring constituencies just leads to more polarization.

Obama is pretending to be a tough guy to win the general election. It's a sham.

How dumb is John McCain for making this, albiet standard when asked a lose-lose question, wife-beating joke?

The liberal activist and serially fraudulent voter registration group ACORN and Obama partner receives 40% of its funding from tax dollars.

I don't think Europeans want a fight over a hostile take-over of Anheuser-Busch.

Pheonix lander finds water and mineral nutrients capable of sustaining life in Martian soil.

Canadian scientists announce satellite to hunt for near earth asteroids.

British veteran who performed citizen arrest on vandals stoning his house was arrested and charged with kidnapping the vandal. Charges were eventually dropped, but the message is clear - vandals can do whatever they want and anybody who tries to stop them will be punished.

The Browning .50 caliber M2 machine gun may be replaced after nearly a century of service.

US stops accepting plans for solar power plants to address environmental concerns. This shows the real agenda of the Marxists masquerading as environmentalists who dominate liberal ideology. It's all about stopping US development and harming our economy, not environmentalism. I want to see the tables turned on the eco-nuts. Every time they hold up a new power plant, I want to see a class actions suit filed against every eco-group halting progress on behalf of the citizens who have to pay higher energy prices for the duration of the delay. It's about time mainstream Americans used the same tactics against these Marxists-cum-eco-nuts they use against us.

The rest of the Battlestar Galactica episodes won't be shown until next year. What? No wonder TV is going down the tubes. They can't even show a full season of episodes in a year. This is absolutely stupid. Why are they just now filming them? TV executives better wake up. Their stupid scheduling is going to ruin TV.

Lawrence Kudlow rips Bernanke and the Fed for holding rates steady instead of raising them and supporting the dollar at their last meeting. I was just happy Bernanke didn't lower them again in his ongoing assault on the dollar.