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Obama’s Nobel Prize Speech Wrong on Global Warming
In the midst of resolving conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama briefly mentioned another war in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: the war on climate change. He said, “The absence...
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Obama’s Northern Exposure
The Nobel Committee’s choice of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize was baffling, to Norwegians and Americans alike. Even President Obama himself was amazed. As he admitted in his acceptance...
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Liu Xiaobo, one of the primary drafters of the Charter 08 manifesto by Chinese intellectuals calling for protection of human rights, comprehensive political reforms, and a democratic government in...
View ArticleOne Year Later: America Retreats From Global Leadership Under Obama
The world needs American leadership. In the interwar years, we saw that the enemies of freedom advance when the great liberal and democratic powers of the day failed to lead. We saw it again in the...
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The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter?
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Walter Russell Mead writes at Foreign Policy: Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it...
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Nobel Peace Prize for Ahmadinejad?
The popular appeal of nuclear weapon free world rhetoric has not been lost on Tehran. This is an insight the Iranian regime shares with Obama administration, which has made nuclear arms reduction...
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This Just In: White House Disappointed with America…Again!
This morning, the U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. had submitted its “Report of the United States of America” to the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights. This report...
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G-20 Summit a Perfect Opportunity to Stand for Freedom
Liu Xiaobo, a primary author of the Charter 08 document calling for better human rights and democracy in China, has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the G-20 Summit this November in South Korea,...
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The EU’s Nobel Peace Prize: Not Just a Laughing Matter
The news that the European Union—which is in the midst of the most sustained crisis of its history—has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is worthy of a laugh—or three. European defense spending is at...
View ArticleSurprise, Surprise: Nobel Prize Awarded for Politics, Not Substance
Many self-righteous and smug Eurocrats will be celebrating the European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded earlier today in Oslo, Norway. Wisely and sensibly, some European leaders, such as...
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Russian “Grandma of Human Rights” Nominated for Nobel Prize
Photo credit: ITAR-TASS/Newscom This week, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D–MD) nominated the “grandma” of the Russian human rights movement, Lyudmila Alekseeva, for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Cardin’s...
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Cyprus Bank Raid: The Decaying Eurozone Is Rotting the European Union
Marios Lolos/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom Today, Cyprus’s banks opened for the first time in more than 10 days, after Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades—without seeking approval from his...
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U.S. Calls for Investigation of Cuban Opposition Leader’s Death
ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Recent remarks by Spanish official Ángel Carromero in The Washington Post are shedding new light on the events that resulted in the death of Cuban dissident and...
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Nelson Mandela: A Symbol of Compassion and Equality
Bandphoto / Uppa.co.uk/UPPA/Photoshot/Newscom Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the first democratic president of post-apartheid South Africa, has passed away at his home in Johannesburg after months of...
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11 Female Superstars We’re Honoring for Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month and we want to honor those women who’ve made a difference! Photo credit: Newscom Margaret Thatcher tackled communism as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to...
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