The press and air waves are full of comments about the Russian occupation of two ethnic enclaves -Abkhazia and South Ossetia - within the former Soviet republic of Georgia, now an independent state. The vast majority of opinions expressed are virulently anti-Russian. Regardless of where "right" and "wrong" lie here - and it is best to let history decide that issue - the Georgian imbroglio offers

To those of us whose vocations consist largely of commenting on the momentous trends and events going on all around us, it can be easy to fall for the delusion that ultimately the world itself orbits those of us observing it.

Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church has gained for himself and his congregation a degree of notoriety for his insistence that "God Hates Fags".

One can at least argue

The rapidity with which the "candidate of change" changes is astounding.

In choosing as his Vice President Joe Biden, a fixture that has been in the senate long enough to acquire cobwebs on his toupee, Obama has surrendered any claim to be the candidate of change in Washington. What Obama's choice really signifies is that the promises a primary candidate makes on the campaign trail "ain't worth a

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So ex-KGB strongman Putin decides to make his Kremlin old school move as the world and its leaders are in an Olympic stupor. Since I give him and his crew credit for being geopolitical chess masters, I’ve got to assume that they were aware that their incursion in Georgia feeds directly into the McCain campaign.

So here are two possibilities to ponder:

1. He decided that it was of major and

 Sen. Joe Lieberman, once a Democrat and now an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats in Washington, has hitched his rising or falling star with Sen. John McCain, the presumptive nominee for president on the Republican Party ticket.

Lieberman's support of McCain is trans-ideological. Theories abound: Some, mostly hot-headed leftist in the party of former President John Kennedy and former

  In 1932-33, Joseph Stalin's withering hand touched Ukraine. In what has come to be called the Holodomor, upwards of 5 million people died of famine. Labeled genocidal by the United Nations, the Stalin produced famine, was the first time in history that famine on this scale was used as a totalitarian instrument of oppression. Two courageous reporters who defied Moscow's ban on travel, Gareth

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We know the places where Senator Obama lived as a child but not why he chose Chicago nor what he has done which bears upon the requirements of president.* Experience? Leadership? Of his activities in Chicago prior to running for the U.S. Senate, he says he was a "community organizer."