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Obama claims he didn't know anything about Illinois Gov. Blagojevich trying to sell his Senate seat, claiming he had had no contact with the Gov. Unfortunately for Obama, David Axelrod, who works on Obama's transition team, reported that Obama and the Gov. had discussed his replacement on Nov. 23. That Illinois corruption is reaching all the way into the White House whether Obama was involved or not. It'll be interesting to see how the media covers this story. They would have already been calling for Bush to be hanged.

Reason provides a list of the infrastructure projects requested by mayors that Obama and Democrats plan to fund. Before Obama was elected, we called these pork barrel projects, and we understood they were really bribes to buy votes. But now that Obama and Democrats are taking power, they're critical infrastructure projects. Every one of these projects takes wealth producing jobs away from private sector.

It's negative 81 degrees in Siberia, and that cold air is headed to southern California. A second, colder storm follows that one. That man-made CO2 is really heating up the planet.

Fred Thompson provides a scathing satire of the bailout madness in Washington. Man, it's too bad this guy wasn't serious about running for president.

Proving once again that Bush is more of a Democrat than a Republican, the White House and Democrats agree on an auto maker bailout against the will of the people and Republicans. Too bad Republicans didn't exercise small government principles until voters kicked them to the curb.

Wonderfully entertaining diatribe by a conservative about how conservatives ruined the conservative era with their big government ways. The scary thing about this essay is the author seems surprised that when conservatives got power, they used it to expand the size of government and force conservatism on everybody else. Apparently this guy was unaware of that aspect of the history of the 20th century. But my favorite aspect of the article is when he explains that after everything we learned about the evils of collectivism in the 20th century, liberals are insane and can't be held responsible for their actions. But that gets back to the scary part - he doesn't realize big government conservatives are just as insane. Liberalism is not the problem. Conservatism is not the problem. Free people can be either and society thrives. Big government - coercion and force - reduced freedom - using government to force one's viewpoint on everybody else is the problem.

Essay shows how conservatives like Bill Krystal are corrupted by power into expanding the size and scope of government.

Scientists find water vapor and CO2 on planet 63 light years from Earth.

Neutrino telescope built in 1 cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice.

Democrats Sec. of State in Minnesota is chosen to use either election night counts or hand recounts, whichever favors Al Franken. Democrats' are cherry-picking in an effort to steal this Senate seat. This is naked corruption.

Reason shows the oppressive, irresponsible increase of government regulation forced on the US economy by Bush which helped drive the economy into the tank. Contrary to the lies told by liberals, the record is clear. Bush the Democrat is the most oppressive regulator of business since Nixon the Democrat. It's horrendous how big government Republicans like Bush, Nixon, and Hoover always get labeled as supporters of free markets against all evidence, and that misrepresentation is used by Democrats to implement even more oppressive government. At least we didn't allow Carter 4 terms like we did Roosevelt. Hopefully voters will kick Obama's big government to the curb just as quickly.