The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Palin Vindicated on Russia, Ukraine: ‘I Could See This One From Alaska’

She who laughs last: Sarah Palin may be having a bragging rights moment. In 2008, when she was the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin questioned in a speech whether then-Sen. Barack Obama would have the foreign policy credentials to handle a scenario in which Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. “After the Russian army invaded […]

Ukraine Unravels

Unimaginable scenes from #Kyiv. 22 new images from deadliest day yet in #Ukraine. http://t.co/PlV2Je10X4 @mashable pic.twitter.com/otidj4xE0a — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 20, 2014 The news out of Kiev is troubling: At least 50 protesters reported killed, and the protesters say the number of dead is actually more than 100. The conflict is essentially one between […]

Olympic Pussy Riot

Tabloid Headline of the Day: "Whip-wielding Russian Cossacks attack Pussy Riot" http://t.co/ECiVSL4HMi #Olympics #Sochi #Russia — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 19, 2014 Some days, the news is like an acid hallucination or a scene from a science fiction dystopia, and you feel as if you’re a Jeopardy contestant in an alternative-universe: “I’ll take ‘Headlines […]

Second Terror Bombing in Russia

More than 30 people killed in two days: A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. . . […]

Russia: 15 Killed in Suicide Bombing

A female bomber at a train station: More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide female bomber. If confirmed, the presumed attack will prove to have been the […]

Russia Reverting to Totalitarianism?

Kim Zigfeld at American Thinker exposes how Russia’s state-controlled media are misreporting the Ukrainian uprising: With every day that passes, ordinary Russians are more and more cut off from basic facts about the world, just as they were in Soviet times. . . . All of the major broadcast TV networks are state-controlled in Russia, […]

Maybe CUNY Could Hire Vladimir Putin

That student mob harassing David Petraeus would certainly have no problem with being lectured by the Russian president: My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on […]

From Russia, With Hate: Sodomy Lobby Now Dictating U.S. Foreign Policy

Last month, I wrote about Russia’s harsh backlash against gay-rights activism (“Russia Says ‘Nyet’ to Gay Adoptions“), and it turns out that this explains the cancellation of a scheduled summit: The Wall Street Journal, among others, reportsthat President Barack Obama has decided to cancel a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s grant of temporary […]

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