Over the weekend, Somali pirates undertook their most daring mission to date - seizing the MV Sirius Star, an oil supertanker owned by Saudi Aramco. Seized some 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya, this brazen act represents a major threat to ...
It is one of the rites of passage of the fall - every September, the Bush administration returns to the United Nations for another sanctions resolution against Iran. However, this time there is much consternation in Washington that Russia's invasion of ...
I just read about Charlie Reese's retirement. His dignity and grace in his ultimate column is untypical of his profession today. Only two months ago the nation took time out to … [Read More] MCain can imitate Churchill’s defiant bellicosity “We will ...
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Sartre was a far greater fornicator than philosopher, but he did come up with the greatest truism of them all: “Hell is other people.” (The last line in one of his … [Read More] Fat severence packages are something that even today most people don’t get. ...
Kosovo is the latest irritant in what was already a deteriorating U.S.-Russia relationship. Disagreements over energy policy, Iran, a U.S. missile-defense system in central Europe, a further round of NATO expansion, as well as Russia’s own domestic ...
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