Virginia Right!

The NY Times gets it mostly wrong again in its editorial, Detained in Libya. A Libyan militia has detained four officials of the International Criminal Court since Thursday on spurious charges. They should be released immediately. The Times is probably right as far as it goes.  ICC officials should be treated with respect.  But here’s [...]

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I was amused about the comments of a US general who was fired for inappropriate comments in public about the Afghan government: In a recent interview with the website Politico, Fuller characterized Afghan leaders as erratic, ungrateful and isolated from reality. The interview quotes him as saying Afghan leaders don’t fully recognize America’s sacrifices on [...]

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Antiwar.com (another great site) reports Cong. Ron Paul’s principled opposition to some sort of bill called the Belarus Democracy Act.  Here’s the summary from Govtrack.com: Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011 – Amends the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 to authorize assistance to promote democracy and civil society in Belarus. Includes Internet broadcasting within the [...]

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Here’s a way for the President to enhance his popularity quickly.  Denounce these UN and European do-gooders who are at it again as I predicted they would (here‘s the official comment from the UN website if you can stomach it): The U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, and the special rapporteur on the promotion [...]

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