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Great interview with Michelle Malkin on the Today Show. You have to give Matt Lauer some credit. He obviously doesn't agree with Malkin, but he asks his questions and he lets her answer them.

Health care proposal cuts through the bull and advocates freedom as a solution to high costs and lower quality care.

Cato identifies the two major problems with our health care system, high prices and people with preexisting conditions losing insurance when they loose their jobs. Both these problems are created by government and resolved by freeing the system from government. A third problem also caused by government is our quality of care is not as high as it should be.

Boortz agrees with me that he's never seen the left so out of control and desperate. They're seriously unraveling. Every time a Democrat speaks about health care, he or she looks like a fool and support for health care oppression drops. I also agree with Boortz that health care protesters shouldn't shout down health oppression supporters. The left is self-destructing. The surest way to insure victory is to keep the high ground.

Harry Reid calls health oppression protesters evil-mongers. I respectfully suggest that people who take money from others by force are evil, not vice-versa. Not so respectfully, I hope that jerk gets creamed in 2010.

There is a tremendous danger that Democrats will push through an oppressive health care bill despite protesters. Remember 95 percent of phone calls to Congress were against the stimulus. It passed anyway. I think Democrats are going to push through something. If they get their foot in the door, Republicans will never repeal it. Republicans will just add to it and pretend they're doing it based on conservative values. Socialized medicine will become a fait accompli, and Democrats know it.

I'm glad to hear Rahm Emanuel's brother is becoming a target in the health care debate. This can only work in our favor.

Emergency room doctor sticks it to government at New York town hall.

I think Boortz's prediction that Democrats will try to tax 401ks and retirement savings accounts is right. It fits their class warfare model too well.

The Australian Senate was reasonable enough to reject tax and trade legislation. Is our Senate that smart?

New lead restrictions harming small business.

Cato criticizes SARFA, Obama's attempt to seize more control of higher education.

""Now, we see government seizing control of student lending, forcing the private sector out and welcoming in a mountain of public debt.""

You know how that would out for us.

How the Clinton health care failure ended the radical Clinton presidency and hoping history repeats itself.

Pat Buchanan is dead on with his analysis of our situation in Afghanistan:

"Had we gone into Afghanistan in 2001, knocked over the Taliban, driven out al-Qaida and departed, we would not be facing what we do today.
But we were seduced by the prospect of converting a backward tribal nation of 25 million, which has resisted every empire to set foot on its inhospitable soil, into a shining new democracy that would be a model for the Islamic world.
Now, whatever Obama decides, we shall pay a hellish price for the hubris of the nation-builders."

It's too bad Obama didn't run on a campaign of pulling out of Afghanistan. Then he could have pulled us out and claimed victory. If he pulls us out now, it's an obvious defeat.

Cato takes on Mitt Romney for his crappy health care plan, finger in the wind convictions and failure to support small government. Mitt Romney is like Obama-lite or McCain's younger twin brother, yet conservatives have him in the early lead for 2012.

New food safety power grab seizes power to initiate recalls from companies and gives it to the FDA, which costs us more money, politicized recalls and insures that recalls will now be used as a weapon to insure food companies pay tremendous tribute to aristocrats.

Imagine the implications of allowing some organization to control how much sunlight reaches the Earth. I'm sure the Russians would like to have more so they could have more arable land. I'm sure the Africans would like to have less so they could have more arable land. People on land want ocean levels to fall. Shippers want a northern passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and they want ocean levels to rise. I want more sunlight to lengthen my growing season. Somebody in the south will want less sunlight so he can get more arable land. The conflicts of interest never end.