International

• Russia threatens to use ‘destructive force’ against NATO missile system

  May 3, 2012

  Just when you thought the Cold War was a thing of the distant past, we get this: Russia says it is prepared to use “destructive force pre-emptively” [...]

• Meanwhile, in Europe . . .

  April 30, 2012

  . . . the situation is so bad that only a French Socialist can save them.

• Big News from North Korea!

  April 12, 2012

  Breaking! North Korea has launched a rocket this evening, which —- never mind. Failed in about 90 seconds. We shouldn’t be too dismissive, though… Lots of national [...]

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  Mitt Romney, seizing the anti-Communist mantle

  March 30, 2012

  Anti-Communism is back in vogue in presidential politics, thanks to Mitt Romney.

• In Russia, the president reveals his arrogance . . . and ignorance

  March 26, 2012

  The president admits he will feel more powerful once he doesn’t have to worry what the voters think of him. Americans should take issue with that. History already does.

• The France Chronicles

  March 14, 2012

  Horrified at the notion that a right-wing American might endorse him, Francois Hollande tries to scare me off, but Nicolas Sarkozy scares me right back. Je suis désolé, Francois; you’re still the odds-on favorite to win my backing in the run-off.

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  Leading by Example

  March 12, 2012

  We must provide justice to those who were massacred even if it is difficult.

• Please tell me that was a joke

  March 12, 2012

  Sarko says Greece is “solved,” as bondholders sue.

• UPDATED: Palestinians launch war on Israel; Obama issues muted response

  March 10, 2012

  Over 130 rockets have been launched at Israel without any provocation from the Palestinian Gaza Strip in the past 30 hours. That is an average of a rocket every 15 minutes. This act of war by the Palestinians has gone mostly unreported in the establishment “news” media, and President Obama’s silence is deafening. is it any wonder that Israel so strongly asserts its right to act unilaterally in its own defense?

• Meanwhile, in France . . .

  March 7, 2012

  Nicolas Sarkozy takes aim at foreigners . . . the wrong foreigners.

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