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What changes our exchange rate, and should we worry about it? BMI adviser Gary Wolfram explains.

Co-hosts prod guests about the R-word, select states with bad news.

For general debate and discussion. Possible talking point: Oil is now at $97.50 a barrel. Will it break $100, and what might that do to the economy?

In an editorial with the misleadingly bland title "Legal Loopholes in Iraq," the Times editorial page took a leap into left-wing logic Monday, referring to private security contractors like Blackwater as "mercenaries." "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refers to the lack of legal accountability that allows mercenaries working for the American government to kill Iraqis without fear of…

Just when you thought those holding on to the claim that the Iraq War is a failure had reached the intellectual bottom of the barrel, we get this from David Obey, as reported by Mike Soraghan at The Hill: Terrorists are ‘running out of people to kill,’ says Obey If violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents “are running out of people to kill,” House Appropriations Committee…

UPDATE: Mark appeared this morning on the G. Gordon Liddy show to discuss this and other issues. Listen to audio clip here.OK, class, someone tell us: what's been the attitude of the New York Times and the elite media at large toward democracy-building in Iraq?What's that, Johnny? That it was naive for George Bush to imagine that democracy was attainable in a Muslim country riven by religious…

'American Morning': New York a wonderful town, but bad airports.

Another prestigious international figure spoke out against biofuels Tuesday actually calling their use and production a "crime against humanity."Unfortunately, since this goes counter to solutions for manmade global warming espoused by folks like Al Gore, you likely didn't hear or read about it.Though George Monbiot isn't a household name in the States, he is considered one of Britain's leading…