Russia Should Not Perish With Putin Regime
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 17th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Russia Should Not Perish With Putin Regime
Garry Kasparov, CNN
After these elections, even Russians who are far removed from the opposition wonder about their own future and that of their children. And the answers to their questions are heard in the form of the harshest accusations against the current regime.The world is on the verge of great economic turmoil. It is clear that Putin's Russia is absolutely unprepared for the challenges of these times. By February 2013, I predict the global crisis will gain momentum at this time. Adjustments to oil prices are possible. Markets will fall. Most likely, the…
The Wages of Appeasement
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
"Ask Osama bin Laden ."‰."‰. whether I engage in appeasement." "” Barack Obama, Dec. 8Fair enough. Barack Obama didn't appease Osama bin Laden. He killed him. And for ordering the raid and taking the risk, Obama deserves credit. Credit for decisiveness and political courage.However, the bin Laden case was no test of policy. No serious person of either party ever suggested negotiation or concession. Obama demonstrated decisiveness, but forgoing a non-option says nothing about the soundness of one's foreign policy.
The Gospel According to Rev. Wright
Charles Johnson, American Spectator
In 2008 America elected a president whose pastor for 20 years preached anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, advocated bizarre pseudo-scientific racial ideas, opposed interracial marriage, praised communist dictatorships, denounced black “assimilation,” and taught Afrocentric feel-good nonsense to schoolchildren. When Americans discovered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's views during the 2008 campaign, they rightly wondered if Barack Obama, like his pastor, really believed that HIV/AIDS was created by the American government to kill black people.
What I Learned Sharing an Office With Hitchens
David Corn, Slate
Here is how I came to hate Christopher Hitchens. Hate—as in envy.In the early 1980s, as a twentysomething trying to start a career as a crusading journalist, I was fortunate enough to share an office with Hitchens. It was just the two of us. And one phone line. We were both working at The Nation. He had come to it as part of an exchange program with the New Statesman, a British publication, and had elected to remain in the wonderful and wild New York City of the late disco era. I was an editorial grunt.
