International Political Will

When an American speaks out for people of other races, other countries, other religions and other cultures that suffer from disease, starvation, extreme poverty, and even their role as “collateral damage” in Western-led wars, they are accused of being “anti-American.”
It is most evident during war. Many Americans are repulsed by the violent nature of [...]

“[T]he worldview of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.”
George Orwell [...]

Michael J. Fox’s disease shouldn’t give him immunity in a political election where he willingly sticks his feet in the fire by appearing in an ad supporting Democratic candidates.
But rather than attacking Fox’s argument, Rush Limbaugh did what every good conservative does in a debate – attack the person. Limbaugh claimed that Fox was [...]

What ever China said to Kim Jong-Il, it seems to be working. Rarely does any national leader – especially one as despotic and maniacal as North Korea’s head of state – apologize for anything.
Reports are fuzzy, but it appears that Kim told Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan he was sorry for the last nuclear [...]

Justice took a wrong turn this week – actually, more like just ran off the road.
There wasn’t just one, but two events that heralded the decapitation of Lady Justice.
Sitting at a desk behind a sign that proclaimed he was “protecting America,” President Bush obliterated major parts of the U.S. Constitution when he signed [...]