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Some things go out with a whimper.  Global warming may well be going out with a bang.  The latest news from Russia is the claim that the global warming scientists didn’t just have faulty code and highly massaged numbers.  It turns out that they also messed with the underlying data, falsifying it or ignoring data [...]

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(Heated, perhaps overheated, rant to follow:) If you like Seinfeld, and especially if you like Bapu, watch the whole video.  Otherwise, just watch from 2:14-2:22. “He’s a bad man.  He’s a very, very bad man.” That’s all I could think of when I read that today, on the 70th Anniversary of Poland’s invasion by the [...]

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UPDATE:  You, my readers, are clearly right, and you’ve shown once again that context is king.  Obama is introducing Medvedev to his people and not vice versa.  Although this still does not account for Obama’s exasperated expression. **************************** This is a fairly shocking 13 second video showing myriad Russians refusing, quite blatantly, to shake Obama’s [...]

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Abe Greenwald looks at the vast differences between the values of America’s enemies and semi-enemies (such as Iran, North Korea, and Russia), as well as Obama’s naive and dangerous inability to understand that the leaders and fanatics in those nations are not like us.

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“Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” You’ve probably noticed that I’ve said nothing about Russia invading Georgia.  This is, in part, because the exigencies of the past week have deprived me of time to read in detail about it.  I only know [...]

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Reagan gave him the opportunity, but it was Mikhail Gorbachev who personally wielded the power that destroyed the Soviet Union.  Many have wondered what gave him the insight and the courage to do so.  Maybe this is the answer.

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