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Well, it’s happened.  I’m in complete agreement with the WSJ’s take on events in Honduras: This is a moment when the U.S. ought to be on the side of the rule of law, which the Honduran court and Congress upheld. If Washington does not reverse course, it will be one more act of appeasement toward [...]

Just as he promised in the campaign, President Obama is ratcheting up the American commitment in Afghanistan, doubling the number of troops there. The Prof and I talk a lot about Afghanistan on the show, because it’s such a fascinating country and crossroads and potential quagmire for foreign occupiers going back 1,000 years. Kevin Drum, [...]

Back in Alaska, Sarah Palin’s discovering that keeping those sky-high approval ratings is much easier when oil’s trading at $150 per barrel: Oil prices, which provide the bulk of state revenue, were well over $100 a barrel in late August when Ms. Palin left to campaign with Senator John McCain. Now they are slumming south [...]

Yarrr: Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is crawling with pirates, a serious problem given that so much of the country is dependent on emergency food aid, which comes mostly by ship. The pirates are highly organized. They work in teams. There is even a pirate spokesman (who could not be reached for comment on Friday).

Bush’s failure is complete: Russia flexed its muscles in America’s backyard yesterday as it sent one of its largest warships to join military exercises in the Caribbean. The nuclear-powered flagship Peter the Great set off for Venezuela with the submarine destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels in the first Russian naval mission in Latin [...]

Most administrations have the good grace to go gently into their dottage.  Not so Commander Cody and his Merry Band. * Cheney affirms US desire to bring Georgia into NATO * US Special Ops attack militants inside Pakistan Thanks, George and Dick!  What, you think Putin’s going to be making googly-eyes at VP Lite and [...]

As we predicted on our show this week, Russia’s escalation of “peacekeeping” operations in the Caucasus into a full-blown invasion of Georgia caused the Polish government to rethink its resistance to putting US missile bases on its territory. Poland and the United States reached an agreement Thursday that will see a battery of American missiles [...]

Speaking of international stories we’ve been following, there’s a power-sharing agreement in the works in Zimbabwe. Mugabe and his thugs get amnesty plus a ceremonial new role of “President,” in exchange his goon squad is disbanded and Tsvangirai gets to be prime minister. It’s a pretty controversial step, giving a criminal like Mugabe protection from [...]

We talked about the cyclone in Myanmar a few months back, so I thought it would be useful to our listeners/readers to check out this op-ed in the WaPo, written by a humanitarian aid official. There was a lot of talk at the time about whether or not Myanmar justified military intervention in the face [...]

Obama detractors on Left and Right have both taken pains to paint him as a closet Muslim. The willing mix up of “Obama” with “Osama” is just the most egregious example of a pattern that’s emerged over and over in this campaign – point out Obama’s differences in an effort to marginalize him and divide [...]