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Congratulations to South Dakota for breaking the environmentalist's ban on new refineries in the US. I bet the feds step in and block this development.

Suicide bombing in Baghdad kills 15.

Mugabe has police detain opposition leader Tsvangirai, and he uses food to manipulate the election.

Who in the world would ever suggest Sudan has been at peace? I don't understand this lunacy of allowing armed groups to continue being armed and continue killing people. Peace comes through victory, not leaving warring factions armed and in power.

Economists fear 70s-style price-wage spiral. That's because government is repeating all the mistakes of the 70s.

Reason describes the dot.com crash of 2000, which is how it's supposed to work. The market corrects itself. There are winners and losers. Nothing for government to do here. The correction happens swiftly and everybody moves on. The same thing happened with the crash of '87. Reagan sat on the sidelines while the market swiftly corrected itself and rebounded. No big deal.

There's a race going on between developing green technology and green Marxism. If green Marxism wins the race, we all lose. If green technology wins the race, it will thwart green Marxism, but ultimately it will be a waste of resources because man-made CO2 has only a minuscule effect on climate. But perception drives innovation.

Obama clinches nomination, but Hillary refuses to concede, trying to force Obama to name her VP. She should be under a psychiatrist's care. 5 lucky breaks for Obama fails to mention that he was born 1/2 black. He would have been laughed out of the race if he had been white. With Obama's defenders crying racism every time he's criticized, this race will set back race relations in the US a generation at least.

Now that Obama has the nomination he's taking a hard line against Iran. Look for the chameleon to change his stripes to try and fool general election voters. A couple weeks ago he said Iran wasn't a big threat, but talking to a Jewish group, he calls it a grave threat. He's probably that most Americans don't pay any attention, so he can say one thing one day and another the next and get away with it.

Here is Barack Obama clearly staking out his position of unilateral disarmament. Unbelievable. No wonder our enemies support this guy. He's toast.

McCain is smart to challenge Obama to 10 townhall debates. Free format would be best. Obama would be smart to run and hide. McCain isn't a very good debater, but Obama's terrible, and his polices are terrible. Obama has to do everything he can in this campaign to hide his policies, his opinions, his experience, his character, and his associations from the American people in order to win. All he has going in his favor is he's 1/2 black, he can speak well, and Republicans spent the last 7 years earning the antipathy of the entire country. Cato says Obama's extreme leftism will be a liability.

Red wine may slow aging. I'll try a bottle a night and see if it works.

Do we need a news article to tell us that anti-bacterial wipes can create and spread super-bugs. That's what anti-bacterial soap and wipes do. Create super-bugs. They should be used very sparingly if at all.

Cato highlights the expense and waste of mass transit projects.