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German Chancellor Merkel, who recently blocked Georgia's entrance into NATO, promises NATO membership to Georgia. That's scary. If NATO goes to war with Russia in Georgia, German troops won't lead the effort - American troops will. Most of Europe proves every day through its dwindling military budgets and unwillingness to fight next to the United States that they cannot be counted on in a war. Expanding NATO is simply further extending US forces with no return for the US.

Condi Rice declares to NATO chiefs that Russia must not be allowed a strategic victory for invading Georgia. As obvious as that is to any sane person, Euro-weenies disagree. I'd rather have a mutual security pact with a bunch of literal flower pansies than with these Euro-weenies. Se must end our security welfare named NATO to these Euro-weenies and make them face the stark reality of defending their own people instead of sitting on the sideline and criticizing us for doing so. If they don't defend themselves, let them see how effective it is to talk to the Russian army in their capitals.

Pakistani President Musharraf resigns. This is the culmination of our interference in Pakistan's internal politics and the childish foreign policy that pretends one election equals freedom. Freedom is a lot harder than that and takes numerous institutions to support it, not least of which is security, which Pakistan does not have.

Florida has passed a price gouging law to keep businesses from raising prices during disasters. This so-called price gouging law is a huge mistake because those higher prices serve 2 purposes. First, they provide the rationing mechanism which keeps critical supplies which greatly increase in demand during a disaster available for everybody. Second, they provide the incentive for people outside the disaster zone to rapidly ship those same critical supplies from their own businesses into the disaster zone. This new price gouging law will greatly reduce the people's incentives to mitigate a disaster and will lead to shortages of critical supplies, resulting in higher casualties.

Nancy Pelosi introduces Obama as "a leader God has blessed us with at this time." Democrats are trying to have it both ways again. They push Obama as the Messiah on the one hand, but on the other, they attack anybody who points it out and makes fun of them for it. Something tells me Democrats think George Bush defeated them twice because of his faith, not because they ran candidates who were even worse than Bush, hard as that was do.