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Somali pirates capture two more container ships and two fishing trawlers.

North Korea pulls out of worthless nuclear talks that have been going on for years and have only succeeded in getting North Korea to mothball an old, decrepit nuclear power plant.

Apparently we needed a study to show that the self-esteem movement was bad for kids, but liberals won't believe it anyway.

The Department of Homeland Security issues warning about right-wing extremism, and everybody who supports smaller government, federalism, stopping illegal immigration, and opposes Obama's agenda is labeled a right-wing extremist. Well over half the country is considered a right-wing extremist by this document. This is a grotesquely politicized document designed and leaked to the press in order to marginalize the anti-big-government tea parties coming up tomorrow. Obama doesn't just plan to force his agenda down the throats of Americans, he's preparing to wage war on anybody who isn't a radical leftist. From what we know of Obama's past, he has no qualms about using force against anybody who opposes him.

I'm going to go to both the Cincinnati and the Dayton tea parties tomorrow. I guess that makes me a double right-wing extremist.

Number of children born to illegal immigrants rises quickly. No surprise there.

Texas joins the states rights movement. 10 states have introduced legislation, and according to the article, 12 others are considering it.

I support allowing Americans to make unlimited trips to visit family in Cuba and to send money to their family in Cuba, but I don't want US tourists to prop up the Castro brothers. I think Obama got this one right.

Supposedly work from the stimulus boondoggle is coming in under budget and ahead of schedule. Yeah, right. First of all, Obama's stimulus boondoggle hasn't done anything yet. Any projects being undertaken were already in the pipeline or started, like all the bridge building in Dayton. Leave it to Obama to claim credit for them anyway. Second, you know these projects are slow and expensive because they're run by government. In Dayton, the bridge building equipment sits idle for weeks at a time on any given project. The I-75 ramp right by my house gets worked on about 3 days a week, and that's more than any of the 5 other projects I see regularly.

Cato breaks down our ugly income tax.

Cato calls for reducing military spending. After we bring US troops home and other countries fill the power vacuum, the world will be a safer place, and we can cut US military spending. It's our demand for overseas troops that drives our military spending.