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To back up all its rhetoric about attacking Tel Aviv and shutting down shipping in the Persian Gulf, Iran test fires a missile capable of hitting Israel and Europe. If the world continues to sit on its hands, those missile will soon have nuclear warheads. French energy giant decides not to invest in Iran. About time. Why didn't we insure no western energy company invested in Iran years ago? Or decades ago? Like when they took Americans hostage at our embassy?

Russia threatens a military response to the missile shield agreement between the US and Czechoslovakia. Of course it upsets the balance of European and Russian security. The status quo is that Russia can nuke Europe into oblivion any time it wants. That's a bad security situation. Missile defense will enable us to intercept a few nuclear missiles from Russia as well as Iran. Russia wants to have the power to destroy Europe. That's why I don't understand why the European people aren't begging for missile defense for their own safety. This is just another aspect of the new Cold War of Terror.

Terrorists possibly linked to al Qaeda in Turkey attack US consulate.

After whining long enough because it lost a bid for airline tankers, Boeing gets another chance to bid. As long as their bid is provides more value, I'm good with this. But if it Boeing gets this deal despite a worse bid, that will be a problem. This bidding process should be competitive anyway. We should always give the loser in a round of bidding a chance to sweeten the pot until all bidders say they've reached their limit.

New Orleans PD suspends officer for wearing wrong shirt 15 minutes before he retired.

Once again Democrats are all wrong about the FISA bill. The problem with the bill isn't telecom immunity. Government has to be able to get the cooperation from the telecoms to perform wiretaps. The problem is with the expansion of wiretaps without meaningful judicial oversight to people who aren't terrorist suspects. We have a legal war going against terrorists, and the president has the Constitutional power and responsibility to wiretap them. But he has no authority to wiretap anybody else, but this bill plans to give him that. It's just crazy that Democrats are railing againt telecom immunity but neither party is railing against wiretapping non-terrorists. Meanwhile government gets away with far more domestic spying.

Feeling the heat on oil price, Democrat send Dick Durbin out to report they are willing to consider allowing drilling off the coasts. Don't forget ANWR. We know where the oil in ANWR is.

Obama wants to do a grandstanding speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate to invite comparisons to JFK. This kind of overseas grandstanding by a presidential candidate should be rejected by the American people. Merkel should not allow this grandstanding either. Other countries shouldn't allow presidential candidates to use them for political grandstanding. Unfortunately, the person with the power, Berlin's mayor, loves the idea. If Obama goes through with this, Americans should punish him at the polls. Of course, Americans should punish him at the polls for his socialist positions and his character anyway, but we haven't seen any indication that's going to happen.

How the American Dental Association uses the power of government to keep Americans from having much more inexpensive dental care.

Psychiatrists treat boy for climate change delusion. The overwhelming flood of apocalyptic baloney has led the boy to stop drinking water for fear of killing millions. Apparently this boy drank too much of Al Gore's kool-aid before he stopped drinking altogether. If only all the global warming true believers would get psychiatric help.

Holy Cow. Houston Chronicle posts database of salaries of all City of Houston and Harris County employees by name. I can understand posting the bigwigs. I can understand posting salaries by position. But I can't understand posting every employee's name and salary. The Houston Superintendent of schools is the highest paid of all city and county employees with $442,556. That's over $100,000 more than the next highest paid employee. That's an outrageous salary, especially when schools keep complaining they need more funding. I sure hope Houston has the best schools in the country. Nope. Houston isn't even in the top 20 in Texas.

Thanks to Congress' anti-American, anti-freedom laws, Abu Dhabi now owns the majority stake in the Chrysler building. Arab royalty are laughing at us all the way to the bank to depost our money into their account.

Cato explains that the track record of the liberal groups including labor unions calling for government to supply health insurance is one of painful growth in government and big-government programs that never work.

More on Texas requiring PC techs to have PI licenses.