The Afghan Supreme Court upholds a criminal conviction for “blasphemy:” KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year sentence for an Afghan university student journalist accused of blasphemy in a case that has alarmed media and rights organizations in Afghani...

The French have rejoined NATO: PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that France intends to become a full member of NATO, 43 years after Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of the alliance’s military command and threw NATO, and American forces, out of the country. “Because it i...

Once again, we’re being subjected to the near-impossible task of trying to figure out what to believe about Iran’s nuclear weapons programs: Iran has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so, U.S. intelligence officials told Con...

North Korea gives Dear Leader another term in the legislature: SEOUL (AFP) — Leader Kim Jong-Il has been unanimously elected to a seat in North Korea’s parliament following a 100 percent turnout, state media said Monday. Sunday’s elections for the rubber-stamp Supreme People’s As...

Reasons Why Your President is an Asshole incapable of Leading a Three-Year Old to the Crapper...A round up of articles as to why President Obambi is such a wreck:1. He's tired and needs a cigarette - From the Telegraph in the UK. Please note the really special sentiment expressed by an Obamacon that...

Not Ready for Prime Time...Oh, you people suck! You've really done it now! You've pissed off the Brits! The British Prime Minister came to pay his respects and was given a foretaste of what Obama's AmeriKKKa will soon look like; listless, unenthusiastic, disinterested, worn out, ungracious -- and da...

Anyone who has been paying any attention to world affairs will by now have heard of the traffic “accident” Friday in which Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was gravely injured, and his wife killed. Tsvangirai has been a thorn in dictator Robert Mugabe’s side since leavin...

I read the NYTimes every day, and I notice that Thomas Friedman has been a lot less soapboxy lately, since globalization and the global economy went to hell, and the flatness of his world has made it impossible to keep......

Quoted in the Daily Mail, Lord Tebbit leads Tory concern at Gordon Brown's decision to award American Senator Ted Kennedy with an honorary knighthood: "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the IRA but he certainly leaned towards extreme Republicanism. He was certainly no fr...

I have no idea what to make of this story: President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said...