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North Korea tests second nuclear bomb, and declares it more successful than the first. North Korea's leaders recognize their only hope to stay in power is nuclear blackmail. The Mullahs in Iran, who are destroying Iran's oil production facilities, on the same path. Both regimes are unsustainable without nuclear blackmail. We've been doing nothing but talking to NK for 20 years, expecting a difference result. Einstein would call that insanity and so would I. UN Security Council to pass resolution. I'm sure Kim Jung Il is quaking in his boots.

Yesterday I praised Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty for vetoing a Democrat tax hike right before a recess, then using his power to cut $4 billion of unfunded spending from the budget. Today I'm condemning Gov. Pawlenty for vetoing a bill that would have allowed terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana to alleviate pain. That's dispicable.

1913 New York Times article denounces Teddy Roosevelt's socialism of a central bank, and income tax and interference in the marketplace. My, how times have changed.

Documenting the wreckage of the Adams family. Wow.