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It may be time to start channeling Noah and begin building an ark. The world is a huge mess, and it's getting worse every day. Iran is on track to develop nuclear weapons, but global warming may incinerate us first. The Israeli-Palestinian hate fest rolls on, and Afghanistan is falling apart. Drug criminals have overrun Mexico, and Third World poverty is as horrific as ever. I think things are OK in Finland. This week President Obama implored the United Nations to do something, anything, to combat terrorism and global warming. The president was blunt: "Consider the course that we are...

On the Radio Factor today, Bill O'Reilly didn't spare anyone - except maybe the NO mayor. He says Gov Blanco was unprepared, Bush was slow, and Chertoff was a disaster and must be canned.

I often disagree with Bill O'Reilly, but I want to defend him. A lot of smart people are bashing him on line, particularly in the blogosphere, but I think that this just proves his point. I think that he's spot on with this erudite and well-reasoned editorial. This "Internet" is just too powerful. When the Founders wrote the First Amendment, they could never have conceived a technology that would allow anyone to publish anything at any time, at almost no cost, and have it readable by millions instantaneously. In fact, inspired by this work, I'm working on a book, tentatively...