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April 2014

April 07, 2014

Social conservatives rising in France

There is talk of a "French tea party," as citizens alarmed at abortion, gay marriage,...

April 02, 2014

Why many Germans favor Russia

Prime minister Angela Merkel, Germany's Iron Lady, is leading efforts to stand up against Russia's...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Evidence the Malaysian plane went down

The Malaysian government cited new satellite evidence that indicates the missing airliner crashed into the...

March 19, 2014

Responding to Russia

The Obama administration has orchestrated sanctions against Russia for taking over the Crimea from Ukraine. ...

March 17, 2014

The missing plane kept flying

The plot thickens in the mystery of the missing Boeing 777. After the transponder went...

March 17, 2014

Crimea votes to join Russia

The plot also thickens in the Ukraine. Crimea, the heavily ethnic Russian section of the...

March 11, 2014

The mystery of the missing Boeing 777

On Saturday, Malaysian Airlines flight 370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers,...

March 05, 2014

The consequences of weakness

Last week, President Obama gave a stern warning to Vladimir Putin not to intervene militarily...

March 05, 2014

Russia backs off from Ukraine

Russia continues to hold the Crimea peninsula, but Vladimir Putin said that he would not...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Ukrainians overthrow their president

Over the last few days, since our last post on the subject, 88 Ukrainians died...

February 21, 2014

“The final episode of the cold war”

Violence is intensifying in the Ukraine, as a truce between pro-Western protesters and the Russian-dominated...

February 19, 2014

The American plot to take over Russia

Russian state television's coverage of the Winter Olympics was interrupted--ironically, during the ice dancing event...

February 19, 2014

Revolution in Ukraine

Pro-Russian government forces in the Ukraine have attacked pro-Democracy protesters in Kiev, but they are...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The case against the Olympics

The Winter Olympics begin February 7 in Sochi, Russia, and people are getting nervous over...

January 07, 2014

Religious freedom vs. human rights?

The rise of religion globally threatens human rights, according to British academic Stephen Hopgood in...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

Canada is claiming the North Pole

Canada is asserting its sovereignty over the North Pole. It is claiming that the Canadian...

December 02, 2013

American absence

In the course of a discussion of how Vladimir Putin is rebuilding Russia's Soviet-era spheres...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Our deal with Iran

The Obama administration has engineered, with other nations, an agreement with Iran that would ease...

November 15, 2013

American generosity & foreign relations

American foreign policy is a mess, much of the world is mad at us, and...

November 06, 2013

Is America in decline or on the rise?

American foreign policy is in the toilet, with our adversaries not respecting us and our...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Our foreign relations debacle

American citizens in great numbers resented the revelations via Edward Snowden that the NSA was...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

How Germany does elections

Germany's conservative Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was re-elected, as voters gave her party an overwhelming victory...

September 09, 2013

“Pontification, Prevarication and Postponement”

Foreign affairs columnist Anne Applebaum (who is not a conservative) on our current international relations...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Coalition of the Unwilling, so U.S. will act alone

The British parliament voted not to attack Syria over the alleged chemical attacks. France and...

August 01, 2013

The NSA and the end of the “world wide” web

According to British journalist John Naughton, the consequences of the NSA surveillance scheme, as revealed...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

King George VII

The royal baby has been named: George Alexander Louis. If all goes well for the...

July 23, 2013

A future king is born

Kate Middleton and Prince William had their baby--a boy who may well succeed his grandfather...

July 16, 2013

The “Place of Jesus” Lutheran church & the LCMS

As we've blogged about earlier, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has broken ties with...

July 04, 2013

Man Without a Country

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been stuck in the transit zone of a Russian airport...

July 02, 2013

European Union discovers USA’s espionage

More diplomatic embarrassment as additional Snowden papers reveal that the National Security Administration has been...