Consider Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Like our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, her husband is also a former...
Victor Sharpe, in American Thinker, raises a really good point about claims that Israel is an "apartheid" state: namely that...
I don't know why this is important to me, but it is. Two Cuban political prisoners: Cuban dissidents Juan Ramón...
Probably more than anyone else, Fritz Platten, a Swiss Communist, was instrumental in getting Lenin into Russia in 1917. He...
Daily Mail: Jack Straw and Tony Blair 'dishonestly' concealed a plan to allow in more immigrants and make Britain more...
Surprise! President Obama's policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran is close to collapse as Tehran backtracks on a crucial deal...
Look closely at this and tell me what you see (bold added): [In Monday's Telegraph] was a report "that the...
I love my country, but that doesn't mean I always think we do the right thing. For example, I was...
Jeff Jacoby has a nice piece up describing the Obama / GOP alliance for Afghanistan. I find the spectacle sad...
United Kingdom: PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors' diagnoses or objecting to...
On one hand, we have this report from the BBC: Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras...
Via babalu (via InstaPundit): A Catalan newspaper is reporting that Honduran authorities have seized computers found in the Presidential Palace...
Times Online: Iran's biggest group of clerics has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election to be illegitimate and condemned the subsequent...
The UN has been on the wrong side of almost every issue in history -- effectively, if not verbally. It...
I've been hearing from the media about "right wing" seemingly-facsist groups in Europe, and have wondered, numerous times, if they're...
VDH: Iran, remember, has no such reluctance about meddling. It endorsed Bush in the 2004 presidential race — to the...
Part 31 of a potentially endless series... Why do they hate us abroad? In part, because a dedicated group of...
Like most Americans, I'm a bit of an Anglophile. The "special relationship", James Bond, Monty Python, Yes Minister (and much...
Michael Ramirez echoes my own perceptions... ... except that I'd write "press corps" or "world opion" rather than simply limiting...
The US has done many good things in the world. And many bad ones. This is nothing new, and not...
I'm going to keep this short. As you know, Russia has placed its tanks in Georgia, and is apparently attempting...
On this Memorial Day, James Earl Carter repeats the same advice which worked out so well for North Korea: [W]hat...
Just returned from a trip to Mexico; more thoughts on that shortly, hopefully. For the moment, I'll just refer you...
Ever see a little child fall down? Ever notice the huge difference in ensuing mood depending on the parents' reaction?...
Last night, 60 minutes ran a story suggesting that Denmark was the happiest nation on earth. The secret is allegedly...
Because some of us tell them to: As of last April, the late Edward Said's "Orientalism," originally published in 1978,...
Interesting: As reported in El Nacional, and confirmed to me by an intelligence source, the Venezuelan military high command virtually...
If I can be trite, evil is bit like a football team: it has both offensive and defensive aspects. With...
"The ____ occupation of _____ has lasted ... nearly twice as long as World War I. How much longer will...
Warning! Not happy-making material! (You know who you are.) View this, and then tell me that Hamas has become more...
From South Korea, that is. At least Iraq wants them, still, and I'm sure Kim Jong Il could use a...
First, let me state that I was in favor of what we -- the US, led by Command-in-Chief, President Bill...
Here in the US, we debate the problem of people entering our country illegally. Emigration to North Korea happens rarely,...
International Herald-Tribune: President Hugo Chavez is set to assume unbridled powers to remake Venezuelan society as the National Assembly prepares...
It seems Putin is trying to take over Shell Oil's $20 billion investment in getting oil out of Russia's Sakhalin...
ABC News (via PowerLine): U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new...
... seems to have been at it again: Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian billionaire and fierce opponent of the Kremlin,...
From the Right Coast: I've met one senior Human Rights Watch officer at several symposia in New York over the...
Malyasia, I am told, is an example of a moderate Islamic nation. So imagine my surprise when I learned about...
This was originally posted on Sunday, but I'm updating the time as I add more links at the bottom. A...
And my two big realizations here are: 1. Any acts of 'terrorism' will no longer be 'terrorism', but rather acts...
What on earth is going on in Haiti, and why isn't the mainstream media covering it? Under UN protection and...
Via left-leaning Harry's Place, Bush chooses human rights over keeping the a US military base in Uzbekistan: The eviction notice...
Steve H. asked: I have been looking around, and I see a lot of bloggers are barely acknowledging the London...
Devastated, worried villagers: First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to...
Cliff Kincaid: Major General Romeo Dallaire, the commander of several thousand U.N. troops in Rwanda, sent a fax to Kofi...
Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold: For President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the UN was supposed to be instrumental in "nipping aggression...
Liked Beslan? Impressed with the "tenaciousness" of it's perpetrators? The depth of their "convictions"? Their desire to gain international "recognition"...
This guess -- ultimately, that Arafact has Hep C -- gave me a laugh: It should go without saying that...
From Kabul: Ahead of the poll, security had been the overriding worry for election organizers fearing attacks by Islamic fundamentalist...
A friend forwards a template Amnesty International letter about Haitian refugees to George Bush. I take the time to write back to my friend and address some of the core arguments of the letter.
Why do they hate us? Why do they hate us? Linda Heard demonstrates precisely why they hate us. Clip and save this for the next time a left-leaning friend of yours brings up the topic.
Via Instapundt: Now that the Bush administration is stepping up the pressure regarding the situation in Darfur, Sudan, the crisis...
Bombings and shooting in Afghanistan: Yet another incident in the news disproves a major plank in the leftist platform.
A quick reminder of some things we really ougth to have learned already.
Numerous fires rage in North Korea.
Now what's going on there?