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She didn’t do it for Alaska. By Rich Lowry EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate © 2009 by King Features Syndicate

JUAREZ -- Law enforcement agents in our sister city have arrested four alleged members of the paramilitary Zeta gang. XHIJ Channel 44 in Juarez is reporting the suspects were allegedly trying to kidnap a Mexican Coca-Cola executive. Late Monday, Mexican soldiers spotted the suspects inside a truck and ordered them to stop. Some of the suspects inside the truck then proceeded to shoot at the soldiers, according to XHIJ. The confrontation then led to a high-speed chase and another shootout ensued. The soldiers were able to stop the suspects and rescue the alleged victim. Police officials said no one was...

Below is a simple explanation of what Cap and Trade is. It removes all of the administration propaganda and cuts to the heart of what is involved in a "Cap and Trade System". Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometimes called cap and trade. A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required...

The news junkies can't get enough of her NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Sarah Palin is the most fascinating politician of her time. Sure, Barack Obama is the most accomplished and respected but news junkies can't get enough of Palin, love or hate her. She is a lightning rod. The left loves to mock her as a buffoon. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd dubbed Palin as "Caribou Barbie." Palin has to expect coverage like that in the Times , the darling of the Eastern establishment elite. She has mastered the art of using the media to divide and conquer...

Next Civil Rights Battle by: Brittany Fortier, July 08, 2009 The next battle for civil rights has begun. The creators of the movie Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America identify the origins of this modern anti-civil rights agenda as steeped in the teachings of Darwinism and the modern eugenics movement. The ancient Swahili term “Maafa” refers to the 250-year period of history in which African-Americans were held in bondage. Narrator Markus Lloyd explains that this period of time did not end with the abolition of slavery, because “a hidden racial agenda is keeping the Maafa alive into...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference. Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also...

Here is video of Vice-President Joe Biden today announcing a supposed $155 Billion deal with Hospitals to help pay for the Obama Administration's Health Care proposal. Supposedly, the agreement is that hospitals across the nation will donate $155 Billion that they will save through the Health Care Plan to help fund it. What Biden does not say is that this only represents 10% of the total $1.5 Trillion cost of their Health Care Plan to bring socialized medicine to America. You and I know that the chances are slim to none that these hospitals will actually save that much money...

Oh great. The "don't kill people" bubble is popping Sometimes when writing about the second great depression gets too dreary, we try to distract ourselves by reading the work of Melissa Lafsky, a science writer at Discover magazine's blog. It usually a good way to get our minds off of the latest financial catastrophe. But not today. Today she is informing us that rises in unemployment similar to those in the current economic crisis increase homicide and suicide rates. Researchers at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have established the connection between unemployment...

Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens said on Wednesday said he has delayed his plans to build the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, due to financing problems. AP Boone Pickens -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I didn't cancel it," Pickens said after a press conference on Capitol Hill. "Financing is tough right now and so it's going to be delayed a year or two." Reports on Tuesday said that Pickens had scrapped plans for the the wind farm. Pickens' company, Mesa Power, has already purchased over 600 wind turbines able to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity for the first phase of...

Barack Obama gave the hijab the all-clear in his Cairo speech, but the poor female souls forced to live under asphyxiating layers are getting fed up. Obama said, “I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal,” creating the false impression that gender subjugation is an innocuous matter of beauty-salon options. Contrast that with yesterday’s Reuters story about burqas in Afghanistan:

DUBLIN, July 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An organizer of a massive pro-life rally in Dublin says she and the other key figures were "jubilant" at the turn-out of seven thousand people on Saturday. Bernadette Smyth, Director of Belfast's Precious Life, also told LifeSiteNews.com that pro-life leaders in Ireland are especially encouraged by a growing cooperation between North and South in the pro-life movement in Ireland. A major breakthrough of the pro-life campaigns in all of Ireland, she said, has been the growing awareness that if legalized abortion is forced into Northern Ireland, it will be effectively made available in the...

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Chart-master Doug Short observes that the behavior of the market since August 2008--a violent 50% plunge followed by a major recovery--almost perfectly tracks the market's behavior in the year after the peak in 1929. Of course, our current bear market started in 2007, not August 2008, so this pattern comes in the middle of our crash, not the start. But the similarity is still startling. Here's hoping the current bear market doesn't continue right on down to the -89% of the 1929 crash. Because from the top of our bear market, way back in 2007, that would mean a fall...

With the U.S. already "teetering on $62 trillion of debt," this is a very dangerous game, says Charles Ortel, managing director of Newport Value Partners, an independent research firm. Still, he believes the Obama administration is "going to try" for more stimulus this year, even if the $787 billion package passed in February was a "hodgepodge of programs nobody really understands." In addition to adding to America's yawning deficit, Ortel opposes more stimulus because he believes the government is the "sector of the economy that needs to be subjected to a scalpel." He also worries the Obama administration is waging...

"I bet you thought that if you bought a house, you actually own it and can, with reasonable exceptions, do with it what you want. You probably think that if you want to live in a log cabin, with wood stoves that belch smoke into the air for heat, and an old washer and dryer that don't have those little EnergyStar stickers on them you can because it's your life and your property. You paid for it with money you earned with the sweat of your brow and what the heck is America anyhow if a body can't live in...

Indianapolis - A call to the city's SWAT team was the final move against one property owner who let his grass grow higher than a foot. Specially trained officers were called out to the 9000 block of Harrison Run Drive as city crews tried to groom one unruly yard on the northeast side.Harrison Run is a neighborhood well cared for. At home after home in this subdivision near 71st and Fall Creek Road, neighbors tend to their yards. That's why one in particular stood out - or in this case, stood up."We're talking about a foot and half tall," said...

How often does your family have dinner together? That simple question often evokes an answer of, "Ummmmmm......" What used to be the most basic of activities has become increasingly difficult to schedule in today's busy world. But bringing back the time-honored practice of "breaking bread" with your own family could be the single greatest step you take toward saving your family from all kinds of ills. For more than a decade, the National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University has been studying the tremendous impact that family meals have on children. Their research repeatedly shows how...

By Duncan Hunter, U.S. Rep. (ret.) Chairman, Armed Services Committee, 2002-2006 At the height of the Cold War the United States maintained more than 32,000 nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union deployed more than 45,000 such weapons. Ronald Reagan, having rebuilt U.S. military strength during the l980s, initiated, with Mikhail Gorbachev, a reduction regimen which continued through the break-up of the Soviet Empire. Since the Reagan breakthrough, the strategic armories of the U.S. and Russia have fallen to a few more than 2,000 nuclear weapons apiece. Now, five months before the expiration of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (which was...

In the spirit of Weekend Update's ( That's Saturday Night Live when it was funny for you youngsters) coverage of the death of General Francisco Franco, I thought you all would like to know that Michael Jackson is still DEAD! PS: By the way General Francisco Franco is still dead too!

He was doing so well there for a while. And then it all fell apart, almost as if he’d never done this sort of thing before. Writing on PJM back in March, I issued a warning to the Republican Party: You have a golden opportunity to seize back the political initiative by focusing on foreign policy, and there is no better place to start than with neo-Soviet Russia. You can invoke the legacy of Ronald Reagan and become the voice of morality and democracy once again, and you can use that as a foundation to rebuild your power base. Republicans...