International Scene
Monday, February 25, 2008
By
Rob
on February 25, 2008 at 07:41 am
I’m not an Oscar watcher (I like movies, but I couldn’t care less about who the entertainment industry thinks is best), but checking out the list of winners it looks…...
Sunday, February 24, 2008
By
Rob
on February 24, 2008 at 07:12 pm
Awesome… PARIS (Reuters) - A video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to “get lost” has become a hit on the Internet. Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist…...
By
Rob
on February 24, 2008 at 12:21 pm
In an article filled with testimony from Cubans who are “fearful” for what comes after Castro (fearful, at least, per their testimony given to be published in a public newspaper…...
Saturday, February 23, 2008
By
Rob
on February 23, 2008 at 02:39 pm
The answer, from the left, is of course “Not a Republican.” Because we all know that fighting the terrorists in the middle east doesn’t work because it just breeds more…...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
By
Rob
on February 20, 2008 at 08:57 am
The bureaucrats at the United Nations aren’t going to brook any dissent from scrappy internet commentators, and Google is going to help them out with it. ...beginning Feb. 13, Google…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
By
Rob
on February 19, 2008 at 08:15 pm
You can actually see that it works. ...
Saturday, February 16, 2008
By
Rob
on February 16, 2008 at 09:41 am
This isn’t getting as much attention as it should: Unnoticed by most Americans this week, the Obama/Hagel GLOBAL POVERTY ACT was quickly approved by a senate committee and cleared for…...
Thursday, February 14, 2008
By
Rob
on February 14, 2008 at 08:44 am
From an article about the death of Hezbollah chieftain Imad Mugniyah who was responsible for the 1983 bombing of a US Embassy in Lebanon. Lebanese officials, exploiting a monitored telephone…...
Sunday, February 10, 2008
By
Rob
on February 10, 2008 at 02:27 pm
Pathetic... British athletes who want to compete in the summer Olympics will be required to sign a contract promising not to make statements critical of the communist regime’s human rights…...
Friday, February 08, 2008
By
Rob
on February 8, 2008 at 11:30 am
Sadly, though, actual Chinese citizens won’t be able to buy the magazine. Just visiting athletes and foreigners. All pornographic material is prohibited on the mainland but a temporary exception could…...
Thursday, February 07, 2008
By
Rob
on February 7, 2008 at 04:49 pm
You gotta love the British media… It’s so much more entertaining than American journalism. ...
Sunday, February 03, 2008
By
Rob
on February 3, 2008 at 02:02 pm
I’m not sure I buy into the hypothesis, but it may be one way to get the left on the side of border enforcement. Even if stopping the flow of…...
By
Rob
on February 3, 2008 at 12:21 pm
He’s not one to let ideology get in the way of making a buck. The varied testimonies I have heard reveal that the co-operation between Venezuela and the guerrillas in…...
Friday, January 25, 2008
By
Rob
on January 25, 2008 at 06:52 am
Of course, he’d like to revise it starting now. After he’s already made his billions. According to the front-page of today’s Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates is issuing a clarion…...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
By
Rob
on January 23, 2008 at 01:51 pm
Not exactly a great mistake to make if you’re trying to cover up your less-than-principled conservative history by saying you’re good on foreign policy. ...
Saturday, January 19, 2008
By
Rob
on January 19, 2008 at 08:47 pm
Meh… OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries…...
By
Rob
on January 19, 2008 at 03:00 pm
Not because their fake guns and swords are an actual threat to anyone, but because they kind of sort of look real. A Cornish village drama group has had to…...
Sunday, January 13, 2008
By
Rob
on January 13, 2008 at 11:50 am
It could be so. It certainly seems as though Blair himself is interested in it. Speaking in Paris this morning, the former prime minister called for a “strong and united…...
By
Rob
on January 13, 2008 at 01:31 am
A rather pathetic and ignominious end to an absolute train-wreck of a study for one of the world’s oldest peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. A STUDY that claimed 650,000…...
By
Rob
on January 13, 2008 at 12:55 am
Here is Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard, appearing in a hearing before a Canadian government “human rights commission.” Levant is being questioned for publishing the now-infamous “Mohammed cartoons”…...
Saturday, January 12, 2008
By
Rob
on January 12, 2008 at 10:33 am
Ever since Democrats have had to begin addressing the harsh (for them) reality of the military success that has come in Iraq under General David Petraeus they’ve spun the issue…...
Friday, January 11, 2008
By
Rob
on January 11, 2008 at 05:10 pm
Here’s North Dakota’s own Senator Byron Dorgan, perhaps one of the most protectionist members of the US Senate, reacting to the Senate’s passage of CAFTA back in June of 2005:…...
By
Rob
on January 11, 2008 at 12:22 pm
The saddest, most bizarre story you’ll read all day. A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister,…...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
By
Rob
on January 10, 2008 at 02:00 pm
Bush is in the middle east today to give speeches about the hundreds of millions of dollars our country will be giving to the Palestinian people. How is he welcomed?…...
Sunday, January 06, 2008
By
Rob
on January 6, 2008 at 07:46 pm
Newly-elected French President Nicholas Sarkozy (who has become something of an American favorite after his rousing speech before the US Congress) has announced his intention to marry girlfriend Carla Bruni:…...
Saturday, January 05, 2008
By
Rob
on January 5, 2008 at 11:11 am
This would be a hot story if only he’d blamed America for the corruption. Iraq’s culture of corruption stems from the actions of the international community and the controversial UN…...
By
Rob
on January 5, 2008 at 06:52 am
Wow... Scores of soldiers flying home from Afghanistan on Christmas leave were ordered to change out of their uniforms on a freezing runway before being allowed into a civilian airport…...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
By
Rob
on January 1, 2008 at 11:49 am
On the 4th of July America celebrates its independence. The day we threw off the shackles on monarchism and became independent not just as a country, but as a nation…...
Thursday, December 27, 2007
By
Rob
on December 27, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Apparently, according to Time Magazine, Bhutto was killed because President Bush has tried to shove democracy down the collective throats of middle easterners. Benazir Bhutto’s assassination Thursday should put a…...
By
Rob
on December 27, 2007 at 09:35 pm
Mark Steyn has long been one of my favorite columnists and authors. He’s almost always right in his analysis, and he writes in a smart manner that is also so…...
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