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Americans still remember 9/11. I hope they remember on days besides 9/11.

General Petraeus reminds Americans that the situation in Iraq could still reverse. He doesn't mention Obama, but whether he intended it so or not, this is a clear signal that a President Obama could still defeat us in Iraq.

Due to the incompetency of the Pakistani government we helped empower, President Bush has authorized US military raids against the Taliban in Pakistan without permission from the Pakistanis. The political failure of both parties, forcing Musharraf into an impossible power-sharing deal that ended up forcing him out of power, has endangered American troops and civilians. It's about time we took this safe haven from the Taliban, and al Qaeda, but we should have done it side-by-side with Pakistani forces from a Pakistani government aligned with the US.

Russia rejects desire by South Ossetia to join Russia.

Mugabe and the opposition agree to power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe. I'm skeptical.

Here we go again. Another Democrat, Charlie Rangle, refuses to resign his chairmanship after being caught in a scandal, failing to pay taxes on overseas income. Democrats never do the honorable thing when they've been busted. There's definitely no honor among Democrat thieves. As scandals go, this is pretty minor, but can you imagine if a Republican had done this? There would be congressional investigations, and it would be front page news for 6 months.

Scientist explains why humans evolved superstitions.

Fact checks disprove smears of Gov. Palin. Gov. Palin's per diem for traveling to and from her own house instead of staying in the Governor's mansion is SOP in Alaska. It should be SOP everywhere. She didn't ban books or even try to ban books. Another liberal smear of Palin has her forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits.

History shows how Obama avoided confronting the corrupt power in Chicago on the issue of
education.

ABC's medical editor disparages the intelligence and will of the American people to make good decisions about their own health care. We're too dumb to have any system other than socialized medicine. Government supplied health care has made us so much healthier over the decades.

John Stossel explodes Obama's plan to create 5 million green jobs, pointing out that by taking money from the market to invest in those green jobs, he's taking more than 5 million jobs out of the economy. Because of government waste, it's a net loss of jobs. He also points out that if investment in green energy makes sense, the market can do it much more effectively than government.

The Farmer's Almanac understands the link between sunspots and climate.

Boston spends $13 thousand on a wind turbine to light 19 light bulbs. Government wants to force taxpayers and consumers to foot the bill for this kind of expensive energy production everywhere.

Federal government requires employers to give Muslims prayer breaks and allows them to refuse to handle pork. This is outrageous. The federal government has no business interfering the labor agreements between employers and employees, period, and this agreement shows why. The government has no business favoring one group of people over another. If Muslims want prayer breaks and don't want to handle pork, they can negotiate that themselves or start their own businesses with their own policies. We have to take control of our government back from the people for the cause freedom.

The Onion reports that the press is running a front page story on McCain out of obligation, since they never do it even though he might be the next president.

Lincoln Chaffee, his picture is in the dictionary next to RINO, supports Obama and calls Palin a cocky wacko.

Apparently China threatening to dump Fred and Fan securities was one of the pressures that led the US government to take it over. More socialism is the price we pay for current socialism that keeps America's economy struggling while China's grows at 10 percent a year, year after year, because of their free market reforms. Cato explains that Fan and Fred have been socialists all along, and their failure is a failure of socialism. There was nothing free market about Fan and Fred.

George Will shows how liberal local government and unions are bankrupting cities and businesses and we're just seeing the beginning of this next huge financial crisis.

Obama filled out a questionnaire stating he wanted to ban all handguns, lied about it and blamed a staffer, then when a copy with his handwriting came out, he claimed he must not have read the question. Blackwell points out a string of other lies on issues that Obama has told. This guy does think we're stupid.

Cato explains that raising taxes to balance the budget, tried by Hoover and FDR, failed then and will fail today.

Obama models his education plan on the failed National Defense Education Act, which is partly responsible for the terrible schools we have today.

According to the tax foundation, over 43 million Americans pay no taxes, and many get tax refunds. Obama's tax plan would increase the tax burden of the top 5 percent, who already pay 42 percent of taxes, to 48 percent. That ought to erase millions of jobs.

Obama says he would delay rescinding Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, that's code for raising taxes on rich people, if the economy is in a recession. Obama is admitting that rescinding those tax cuts will be bad for the economy. But if the economy isn't in recession, he's going to do it anyway. Obama knows he's harming the US economy by rescinding those tax cuts, and he's going to do it anyway. Why would anybody vote for a person who wants to harm the US economy? On the other hand, why would anybody vote for somebody who was so dumb he didn't know that raising taxes would hurt the economy? I guess what I'm really asking is why would anybody vote for a Democrat.

This might be the most insightful analysis of the liberal media and political meltdown regarding Sarah Palin precisely because it comes from the liberal media in Great Britain, which knows all about these kinds of meltdowns. This article is full of wisdom and insightful quotes from start to finish.

Ford makes 65 MPG diesel car, but because of the tax on diesel, Ford won't sell it in the US because the market will be too small. High taxes harm Americans again.

This summer was the 3rd coldest summer on record in Alaska.

78 percent of 8th graders in Maine fail writing test, so officials throw out the results of the test. Obama wants to strengthen government's monopoly on schools.

Tiny creatures can survive extreme cold and pressure and in outer space.

This liberty amendment is a similar idea to an amendment I long wanted, the 0th amendment, which would say "This Constitution means what it says."

In 2002, Ron Paul predicted that since Congress gave the president power for a preemptive strike in Iraq, Russia would use that same excuse to invade Georgia. Prescient. But there's no equivalence between freeing Iraqis from a horrible tyrant and Russia's invasion of a country with a freely elected government.

Gov. Palin's first interview with Charlie Gibson from ABC. I didn't think she did all that well. It sounds like she's doesn't want to say something that might blow up on her, she's not comfortable speaking for McCain at this point, so she's avoiding answering certain things. For example, if US security is threatened from the tribal areas of Pakistan and the Pakistani government won't act or allow us to act, it's the responsibly of the president to act anyway including sending in troops if that's the best option. She didn't answer that well, imo. It's funny that Hillary and Republicans reamed Obama for saying that a year ago, and now Bush is doing just that. I'm sure the Republicans won't notice the double standard.