Oct 2 2009

Join the Senate and Don’t See the World

From the very day (June 28th, 2009) that JosĂ© Manuel “Mel” Zelaya Rosales was impeached and removed from office by the Honduran supreme court and arrested by the military — the organization tasked with removing presidents under the Honduran constitution — the Barack H. Obama administration cast their lot with the so-called “Bolivarist.” Zelaya [...]

Jun 21 2009

There Is No Islamic Republic

Washington Times editor Barbara Slavin writes to Steve Clemons:

steve, iran ceased being an islamic republic a week ago. now it’s just another military dictatorship.
Clemons concurs without hesitation. It’s ironic then that Obama became the first American president to say otherwise just three months ago when he taped a new year’s message to “the people and [...]

May 27 2009

Speaking Ill of the Dead

Yes, yes, I know: “De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est” (do not speak ill of the dead). But why not? I say, go ahead and speak ill of the undeserving dead.
Erstwhile South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun is dead. He threw himself off a cliff today, coward that he was, because [...]