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Report claims US still conducting renditions and keeping detainees on ships. There are some numbers in this article that seem too high to make it credible, but the part of troops taking prisoners in Somalia on board US ships for transport rings true. We have to transport the foreign fighters somehow.

Because NATO is nothing more than US security welfare to Europe, and we're funding the Taliban with our misnamed war on drugs (it should be renamed war on Americans), Afghanistan violence is skyrocketing. Killing Taliban leaders won't stop them, though it will make them less effective, as long as the drug money keeps coming in and they have a safe haven in Pakistan.

Mexican drug gangs, funded by our misnamed war on drugs, (it should be renamed drug cartel, drug gang, and terrorist enrichment and empowerment program), kill Mexican mayor.

The Texas judge who started this whole mess by allowing the state to kidnap hundreds of children from their parents (I say kidnap because no evidence of abuse against nearly all the children was presented), finally respects the Texas Supreme Court order to return them.

US blogger in Singapore arrested for "insulting a public servant."

Iranian President Ahmadinejad has said "Israel will soon disappear" and other threats so many times now, I'm tired of reading them. I look forward to the day when we put this loon and his martyr-loving regime out of our misery.

Since the new Pakistani government chose to appease the terrorists, they blew up the Danish embassy in the capital.

Scalia thinks the Constitution means what it says, and it doesn't say to drive religion out of the public square.

Senator Kennedy to have brain surgery. If he comes back to the Senate, there will be no end to the lobotomy jokes. His surgery was successful. They didn't remove the entire tumor, they just reduced it so other therapies would have a better chance of success.

Looking for any strand to hold onto, Clinton claims popular vote lead because Florida and Michigan, which were unfair contests, were seated.

It looks like Hillary Clinton is finally calling it off. That jives with Bill's comments. Maybe Obama and Hillary finally worked out a deal.

Christopher Hitchens rips Scott McClellan in counterpoint to the high praise for Douglas Feith's new book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. Hitchens highlights how the press has completely ignored Feith's book, a well-written, well-sourced book by a true insider, in favor of McClellan's anti-Bush gossip.

Wii as a personal trainer. I don't think this will work with adults. I wonder how it will work with children.

Not only are conservatives more compassionate and charitable than liberals, study shows conservatives are more honest and moral than liberals too.

Nancy Pelosi credits Iran with the success of the surge, not US forces.

We've lost the freedom to bring souvenir rifle cartridges from vets to school. It used to be that students were encouraged to show and tell the stories of vets around Memorial Day. Now they get suspended.

Former al Qaeda commander testifies that his unit was funded by Saudi Arabia. While it seems pretty likely that Saudis are funding al Qaeda, why would anybody take this terrorist's word, unless it was the result of water-boarding.

ACLU sues Denver to discover what weapons the city is buying for security for the Democrat Convention. They're trying to make the convention less secure.

Obama is capitalizing on Che Guevara. That alone ought to disqualify him from office.

Mohammad is the most popular baby name in Milan.

They imprisoned the wrong people in this case. 13 year old girl seduces 2 men, claiming she was 18, and both men end up in jail. This is ridiculous. Men should not have to check IDs of women they sleep with. The law intended to stop predators, not imprison men who were fooled by under-age predators.

79 year old man who didn't pay for pie because forgot it among the rest of his groceries, ends up in jail.

Counterfeit Chinese drugs endanger Americans. That's no surprise. What I find striking about this article is the assumption that the government is at fault. It's not government's fault, it's the fault of the businesses. Instead of complaining, this CEO of Baxter, which bought these bad drugs from China, should have implemented a testing regimen insure their safety. Patients who suffered from these drugs should sue the pants off Baxter. But the reason this happens is government jumps in and makes the FDA responsible, creating moral hazard, and businesses love it because they don't have to spend the money to do the testing. Government makes them pass the buck figuratively, and they save more bucks literally. But of course government doesn't have the resources to inspect every product that comes into America, or every product made in America. It's ludicrous to think it can. Because of bad policy creating moral hazard, Americans end up sick and dead from bad drugs, toys, food, and everything else.

Robert Novak points out that Scott McClellan's Bush bashing book focuses on the Plame non-affair but ignores that Richard Armitage, who was not part of the White House at all, leaked Plame's identity. He suspects that McClellan had a liberal ghost-writer. I don't think McClellan has the capacity to write any book. He was stunningly inept.

An unofficial google sh. I like this.