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During a short news conference, Scott Walker, Gov. of Wisconsin, stated that he will release to the public, e-mails and other documents between his office and Senate Democrats, which demonstrate that he and other Republicans have been acting in "good faith," while the responses by Democrat leaders strongly suggest parties outside the state of Wisconsin have some-sort of hold on or influence over the Democrats that left the state. Senate Democrats fled the state of Wisconsin in an attempt to stop the business of the state from moving forward, despite being defeated in the 2010 election when voters approved of...

Vladimir Putin has revealed he met and even sang patriotic Soviet songs with a group of Russian spies deported from America. Mr Putin: 'We talked about life.' Russia's prime minister, who served as a KGB agent, said the group included the young spy Anna Chapman and predicted they would have an "interesting, bright" future. "I met with them. We talked about life. We sang. It was not karaoke but live music," Mr Putin told reporters during a visit to Ukraine. "We sang From Where the Motherland Begins," a Soviet song made famous in the 1968 USSR film The Sword and...

Ideology matters again. The big development of recent years is the rise not only of great powers but also of the great-power autocracies of Russia and China. True realism about the international scene begins with understanding how this unanticipated shift will shape our world. Many believe that when Chinese and Russian leaders stopped believing in communism, they stopped believing in anything. They had become pragmatists, pursuing their own and their nation's interests. But Chinese and Russian rulers, like past rulers of autocracies, do have a set of beliefs that guide their domestic and foreign policies. They believe in the virtues...

The following letter was written to me [Tom Craighead] by a college professor who worked for me when he was in High School. This letter is very shocking. If I did not know Richard all of his life, I would have tossed this and considered it nonsense. However I do know Richard very well and I take his confession very seriously. I hand carried this to the FBI. The following is in it's entirety and uncut. Dear Tom: I don't know how to say this ... Deep down, I have always trusted and respected you, and that's why I am...