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Home from the East

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:10:24 +0000

I'm home again from an absolutely fascinating tour of post-communist Eastern Europe and can start writing about it as soon as I get my interviews transcribed. After leaving Romania, I was supposed to visit Chernobyl and the apocalyptic ghost city of Pripyat outside Kiev, Ukraine, but the trip ...

Victory Caucus -- All Content found this 24 hours ago on michaeltotten.com

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Try speaking truth to Russia

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:19:50 +0000

If ever a cliche needed to be retired, it's the one about "speaking truth to power." And if the recent use of this self-congratulatory phase, by top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, doesn't put us out of its misery, nothing will. Jarrett was being interviewed by CNN's Campbell Brown ...

Chicago Boyz found this 25 hours ago on powerlineblog.com

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While Obama Spends, Storm Clouds Gather

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:38:00 +0000

Obamaphiles aren't the only statists who long for mandatory absorption into a scary collectivist herd. Yesterday was Russia's Day of People's Unity . While the Ditherer in Chief loses the war in Afghanistan and maneuvers our economy toward eventual collapse with unsustainable spending, this is ...

Dissecting Leftism found this 26 hours ago on moonbattery.com

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Russia Plays Nuclear ‘War Games’ with Poland

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:14:00 +0000

More fallout from Obama's abandonment of Eastern Europe, as Russia stages a mock invasion of its now defenseless neighbor.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 27 hours ago on pajamasmedia.com

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Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0000

The secret manoeuvres are thought to have involved about 13000 Russian and Belarusian troops.

Theo Spark found this 5 days ago on telegraph.co.uk

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Marking the Anniversary of the Embassy Seizure

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:09:55 +0000

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the seizing of the U. S. embassy in Tehran by factions of the revolution that overthrew the shah. President Obama has issued a statement on the occasion which I will reproduce in full here: Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was ...

The Glittering Eye found this 48 hours ago on outsidethebeltway.com

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U.S. Tops in Energy Resources

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:23:53 +0000

The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. As shown in the charts below, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, ...

RedState found this 4 days ago on humanevents.com

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Russia 'Simulates' Nuclear Attack on Poland

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:58:51 +0000

The timing here is beautiful. The exercises reportedly transpired during the 70th anniversary of the Russian invasion of Poland... also the same day that President Obama killed plans for Polish based missile defense. The [Russian] armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in ...

Blogs For Victory found this 3 days ago on weeklystandard.com

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Russia simulates nuclear attack on Poland

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

A Polish leading news magazine, Wprost, has obtained documents that show that Russia and Belarus conducted a war game that simulated nuclear attacks on Poland. The war games took place back in September around the 70th anniversary of the invasion...

Wizbang found this 3 days ago on mypetjawa.mu.nu

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Bruno Pellaud: Major Breakthrough on the Iranian Nuclear Issue

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:40:20 +0000

Surprisingly, besides agreeing on further meetings before the end of the month, the "Geneva Talks 2" resulted yesterday in a significant step forward, namely the storage abroad of most low-enriched uranium (LEU) produced so far by the Iranian centrifuges. The Obama negotiating team had the ...

Newshoggers.com found this 4 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Clinton: Iran should accept nuclear deal 'as is'

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:14:30 +0000

Asked about Iran's recent request to modify a uranium reprocessing deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she urges Iran to accept the deal as is because "we are not altering it." "I want to reiterate that this is a pivotal moment for Iran," Clinton said at a ...

TPMCafe found this 4 days ago on politico.com

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President Obama's selective "innocence"

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:52:30 +0000

I have suggested , in connection with President Obama's dealings with Russia, that to call him a fool is to give him the benefit of the doubt. For Obama's hat-in-hand approach to Russia assumes that the thuggish, autocratic, expansionist Russian regime is more sinned against than sinning in ...

Maggie's Farm found this 3 days ago on powerlineblog.com

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Neoconservatism’s Tradeoffs Problem

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:41:00 +0000

One of the signature elements of neoconservative foreign policy is a complete refusal to set priorities or talk about tradeoffs. Whatever problem we happen to be talking about right now needs to be met with bold and decisive action, casting caution to the wind, irrespective of how that impacts ...

Lawyers, Guns and Money found this 13 days ago on yglesias.thinkprogress.org

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Who Knew that Radical Right Wing Nationalists Could Disagree?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:32:26 +0000

Especially when they come from different countries? Former Ambassador Martin Indyk revealed an interesting wrinkle to the story of Eastern European missile defense system, which the Obama administration canceled last month, a move conservatives have heavily criticized as — what else? — ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 12 days ago on lefarkins.blogspot.com

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The Glenn Beck Cartoon Show: 'We've raised a generation of potential killers'; Plus! 'We're watching what happened to Russia'

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:30:12 +0000

DOWNLOADS: (2) PLAYS: (43) Glenn Beck has become a cartoon. You can pretty much guarantee that every afternoon, you can tune in and find Beck saying something so stupidly outrageous, so detached from reality, so unhinged in its lunacy, that you just have to shake your head. It's not really a ...

Firedoglake found this 10 days ago on crooksandliars.com

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Indyk: The Israelis Hated Eastern European Missile Defense

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:58:02 +0000

At an American Enterprise Institute event today — “ Should Israel Attack Iran? ” (yes, they’re obviously trying to get peoples’ attention) — former Ambassador Martin Indyk revealed an interesting wrinkle to the story of Eastern European missile defense ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 13 days ago on wonkroom.thinkprogress.org

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Iran proposes big changes to draft atom deal: report

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:02:36 +0000

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran proposed changes to a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal on Thursday, Iranian media said, making demands that appeared to challenge the basis of the agreement with the United States, France and Russia. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had requested a ...

Wonk Room found this 9 days ago on reuters.com

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Father wins a family by fighting his firing

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:15:32 +0000

RALEIGH -- Jim Dotson spent the past six years seeking the truth, not only from his employer who he charged wrongly fired him, but for himself and his family. In October, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his former employer's appeal, handing Dotson a victory even as it cost him his ...

How Appealing found this 5 days ago on newsobserver.com

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Lord of War

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:24:00 +0000

No Hollywood scriptwriter could come up with protagonist more colorful and chilling than Victor A. Bout of Russia.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 9 days ago on americanthinker.com

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Russia’s Strategy of Manipulation

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:24:00 +0000

Putin may have thrown down a new card in Georgia, indirectly asking us to sacrifice that nation in return for his help on Iran.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 11 days ago on pajamasmedia.com

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