1. U.S. Still Building North Korean Reactors

Are we living in the Twilight Zone?

The U.S. has cut off oil supplies to North Korea, and already there's talk of pre-emptive strikes against North Korea. North Korea claims it has developed nuclear bombs and is threatening a war that could turn global.

Meanwhile, the U.S., which foolishly forked over more than $10 billion in aid to communist North Korea, continues to fund and back KEDO – the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization.

A source close to KEDO tells NewsMax he thinks it is remarkable that despite the hostilities, the U.S. continues to support the building of nuclear reactors for North Korea – though the North Koreans clearly violated the agreement that led to the formation of KEDO.

One reason for the continuance of KEDO is that member nations Japan and South Korea have the multibillion-dollar contracts to build the North Korean nuclear plants – and don't want to face the political fallout of the project's demise.

Remember what Lenin said: The West would sell him the rope he would use to hang us with.

2. Powell: I Haven't Seen the Evidence

We hear that Secretary of State Powell recently summoned all U.S. ambassadors in European capitals back to Foggy Bottom for a pep rally for the coming war.

The ambassadors were not too happy to attend, we hear, and echoed European sentiments that the administration has not provided proof that Iraq was involved with al-Qaeda or has progressed in developing weapons of mass destruction.

Powell promised the evidence would be forthcoming, but confided to one ambassador, "I have not seen the evidence yet myself."

3. Sorry, Hillary: White Troops Likelier to Die in Battle

In urging reinstatement of the draft for men, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Rep. Charles Rangel and other Democrats pandering for black votes have spread the lie that white people aren't serving their country.

Reality: White servicemen are more likely to fight on the front lines and die in battle.

Long-ignored military statistics, newly cited in BusinessWeek magazine and USA Today, show that blacks have taken advantage of military jobs that provide skills useful in post-military careers, while whites are over-represented in combat forces.

Blacks, who make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, enlist in the military at "modestly" higher rates and account for 20 percent of service personnel because they stay longer than whites, the Pentagon says.

However, blacks account for less than 5 percent of high-risk jobs, such as Army commandos and Navy and Air Force fighter pilots.

The facts explode a widespread myth about the Vietnam War spread by the likes of Oliver Stone and Hollywood – that blacks were used as cannon fodder in Southeast Asia.

But the stats prove otherwise. Blacks accounted for only 12 percent of American fatalities – an amount equal to or slightly less than their percentage of the total U.S. population at the time of the Vietnam conflict. And, more recently, they made up only 11 percent of combat deaths in Desert Storm.

"If anybody should be complaining about battlefield deaths, it is poor, rural whites," notes Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "Actually, it's mostly the white working class that is going to die in Iraq."

4. Hillary's White House Ambitions Finally Recognized

Speaking of Hillary, NewsMax was the first to report her aspirations for the presidency. When we did so, we were scoffed at.

Now it's not even a rumor that Hillary wants her husband's old job, though her friends say she is looking to 2008.

But NewsMax quickly reported that Hillary still had her sights set on 2004, and would be very pleased to take the second spot as vice president on the Democratic ticket.

Again, NewsMax was scoffed at for revealing Hillary's strategy.

But now influential columnist Robert Novak is backing up this contention.

Novak revealed this past week that a top conservative figure in Washington, fearing Hillary will nab the Democrat slot for V.P., is urging Senate Republicans "not to do anything to help her ambitions by building a Senate record."

Novak said the Republican figure has urged senators against co-signing letters, co-sponsoring legislation, being photographed, traveling and even socializing with her.

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5. Even Carter Wanted to End Double Taxation

Class-warfare Democrats are howling about President Bush's plan to end double taxation on dividends.

But one of their own presidents, Jimmy Carter, wanted to do just that way back in 1977.

It's nice to know that Carter had one good idea during his disastrous four years, even if he failed to carry it out.

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