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A shooter in Alabama and one in Germany managed to murder about a dozen unarmed people each. Had any of the victims been armed, these would be totally different stories.

Obama calls for concerted G-20 action on economy. Governments acting independently aren't causing enough damage for Obama. He wants supra-national intervention to cause significantly greater damage to our economy. Geithner says we need global action. In other words, everything Obama has done to us so far hasn't helped. In fact, it's made the situation worse.

France to return to NATO. I guess Sarkozy is afraid of losing the security welfare provided by the US.

A new Star Trek TV series with the original characters may be coming back after years of having the franchise butchered by Rick Berman.

Good essay wonders why Fox is trying to kill its sci-fi shows. The bipolar description is insightful. It's like somebody in Fox keep greenlighting cool sci-fi shows, but somebody higher up wants to get away from them and is trying to kill them.

How dumb and hypocritical is Nancy Pelosi over the way she abuses the Air Force?

What kind of central planning baloney is this universal savings account thing? I have a far better plan. Just get rid of the income tax on savings accounts. How hard is that? Better yet, get rid of the income tax and payroll tax and adopt the FairTax.

Just say no to card check. Analyst downgrades Walmart because of card check.

53 percent of Americans think the country is headed into depression.

Nancy Pelosi open to a second stimulus bill. Democrats are going to have a hard time with this. You know they want a second bite at taking a trillion dollars from the American people and using it to buy votes, but they either have to claim the first stimulus worked, in which case we don't need a second, or it didn't, in which case we shouldn't let them screw us over again. It'll be hard to get a second bite at the apple.

List of the top 20 earmarkers. 3 of the top 5 are Republicans. Apparently the people haven't sent them the memo about using our tax dollars to buy votes.

Dying paper the Atlanta Journal Constitution admits its liberal bias and intends to become more fair. Funny how facing death will change one's outlook. Atlanta is not exactly a liberal town.

Alan Greenspan is trying to cover his ass to save what little shred of his reputation remains by blaming the Asians for the housing bubble, not his low interest rates. How petty and typical. When aristocrats don't want to take blame for the consequences of their socialist policies, they love to incite hatred of the evil, conniving Asians. At least he didn't try to blame the Jews. I guess that would have been too transparent. It's the evil Asians' fault for raising their standard of living. Greenspan should crawl under a rock and never come out.

Self-righteous essay nevertheless successfully defends the Austrians' record of successful predictions against the Keynesians' record of failure.

The Fed wasn't the only central bank which created an inflationary bubble. The European Central Bank did the same thing, and Eastern Europe is paying a price.

Released memos from the Bush Justice Dept. in the wake of 9/11 show that US officials decided the military could enter any place in America and detain any American for however long it wanted. These memos describe a police state. To George Bush's credit, he didn't utilize this approach, though the American people might well have supported it for a short while. In a time of war, the commander in chief can wiretap and break down doors and grab suspected enemy combatants, that's part of waging war, but he can't hold American citizens indefinitely nor can he hold criminals as enemy combatants. I don't know of any way he could justify using the military to do this on US soil. Unfortunately, Obama's policy is virtually identical to the policy laid out in these memos.

At the third day of the International Conference on Climate Change, retired NASA climatologist John Theon called the global warming fraud a fraud and said he regretted not firing James Hansen. So do I. Unfortunately, Hansen was protected by Al Gore. Shocker. Global warming frauds assume clouds provide a positive feedback mechanism to the greenhouse effect, but they're wrong. Clouds provide a negative feedback mechanism to global warming, and we know that because if it was otherwise, the Earth would have evolved to be like Venus long ago. But documenting the feedback mechanism hasn't happened yet. These scientists have evidence of it and are trying to get more.

Obama to step up the war on drugs. Because that's worked so well so far.

Walter Williams explains that it shouldn't matter whether or not an idea is good policy unless that policy is constitutional. Wishful thinking.

John Stossel reminds us that a handful of central planners thinking they can spend our money wisely than we can, that a few of them are smarter than all 300 million of us put together is stunning hubris and a fatal conceit.

I'm not surprised that Hillary Clinton is a crappy Sec. of State.

Obama signs pork laden bill while talking about earmark reform. Hypocrite.

I have no idea who Camille Paglia is other than some liberal icon, but the first page of this essay about the incompetance of the Obama administration is dead on.The only thing she gets wrong is her faith in Obama himself, as if his staff is the problem, not him. I didn't read the second page because it started talking about her trip to Brazil. I think the comparison of Pharaoh Obama to Pope Leo X is particularly entertaining.

Michael Barone recommends another book that explains how low interest rates and other government interferences in the marketplace caused the housing meltdown.

Russia's richest man is on trial for having the temerity to donate money to Putin's political opposition.

Kremlin funded youth group claims responsibility for 2007 cyber attack on Estonia. When a youth group labels itself an anti-fascist group, you know it's a fascist group.

Obama and Geithner receive failing grades from me too.

"A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies involving major drugs. Yikes." I hope they lock this guy up and throw away the key.

Detroit mayoral candidate falsely claims to have masters degree. Big government makes lying ubiquitous.

50 percent of Americans 2 paychecks away from personal financial crises. That's because the income tax punishes savings and rewards debt and the Fed's inflationary monetary policy punishes savings as well. We can complain about the low savings rate of Americans all we want, but until we address the root cause - government - it's just hot air. And of course the idiot pundits, Keynesian economists and government aristocrats keep telling people to spend, spend, spend.

The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka may be on the verge of defeat, but even reduced to suicide bombers, they're still deadly. This video of a suicide bomb attack is graphic.

Maryland's red light cameras issueing tickets to stopped cars as well as moving ones. These red light cameras are a travesty.

Good for Chicago police department for reviewing cases after top DUI cop caught falsifying report.

It's the nature of government to do anything it can think of to take our money. Maine considers tax for kayaking and canoeing. I don't really have a problem with the $20 rescue card. People who have to be rescued should pay for the rescue.

Sand storm engulfs Saudi capital.

Supposedly moderate Democrats will put lipstick on Obama's pig of a budget.

Bailout mascot.

Smart ads in malls watch who is watching them and change content accordingly.

Carbon cap and trade in trouble - funny cartoon.

EPA to require companies to report how much greenhouse gases they emit. I assume that means all the breathing done by employees too. Companies need government to add another cost to their system because they're doing too well right now. Note the graph showing falling global temperatures versus rising CO2.

I'm not too concerned about the world's billionaires.