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  • License to Il

    May 26, 2009

    • Inspired by, well, pretty much every radio station over the Memorial Day weekend, I've decided to utilize one of their tactics for keeping the listener - or, in my case, the reader - tuned in: The Top 500 Countdown.That's right. Beginning today, I will be posting the Top 500 Things Things You Should Know About Me. Once a week.For the next 500 weeks.I figure, that keeps you riveted for the next ...
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  • Armed Diplomacy

    April 19, 2009

    •  While President Obama held his Sunday news conference, and touted the virtues of talk over combat, saying that diplomacy "strengthens our hand," the bombs rained over the Waziristan region of Pakistan killing at least three people, and injuring several others.One source, in Pakistan, says that missiles were fired into houses, early this morning, leaving at least eight civilians dead. ...
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  • Hillary Clinton's North Korea Foreign Policy Via "Shout-Out"

    March 27, 2009

    • President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pictured with radical socialist revolutionary Che' Guevara as a backdrop. Image credit: Fr Loren Gonzales via overheardinthesacristyHillary Clinton's North Korea Foreign Policy Via "Shout-Out"Last night, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a plea during an interview she was having with Greta Van Sustern during ...
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  • Elections

    June 1, 2008

    • This is certainly shaping up to be an interesting election you guys are having. And the fact that there is quite a bit of talk about foreign policy is most interesting to someone sitting on the other side of this particular little ball of molten lava and shifting continents. Mr. Obama seems to be aware that there is a world out there. Bush always gave the impression he'd heard of little ...
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  • Most bizarre news story of the week

    February 4, 2008

    • So Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has been rebuked by the State Department for having the temerity to sit next to Iran’s foreign minister at a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Khalilzad apparently did not shake the Iranian official’s hand or even address any comments to him ...
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