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The moral rot of the left is on full display this week. Look at the media portrayal of two deaths, one a hero of freedom in Eastern Europe, the other a sleazy mass-murdering tyrant of the worst kind. The perverse left covered Kim Jong Il’s evil rear end in posthumous kisses, while managing to gloss over the life and passing of Vaclav Havel, one of the heroes of the liberation of Eastern Europe from the Soviet Empire. This tells us exactly what kind of people our media lefties are, doesn’t it? All the preening arrogance of the left crumbles right...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has sent a letter to Russian President Vladmir Putin, seeking his help in breaking the stalemate in the talks with the United States over the nuclear crisis, a report said Sunday. The letter was sent in late May, the major Japanese newspaper Tokyo Shimbun reported from Beijing, quoting Chinese diplomatic sources. It was not known how the letter had been delivered to Putin. "It may be aimed at boosting Russia, which has been put on the sidelines over the nuclear issue, while checking the Chinese side which is strongly demanding (Pyongyang) abolish nuclear weapons," one...

Hidden biological weapons in Iraq. Nukes in North Korea. Terror from al Qaeda. These challenges combined would be overwhelming for any US president. But then add France, South Korea, Russia, the EU, and the UN to the mix and things get really dicey. "Our friends" continue to berate US foreign policy, as they remain eager to trust the pledges of dictators. The "world community" tells us to slow down in Iraq when Iraq is still lying. We are lectured endlessly about the dangers of acting unilaterally. Yet this constant critique of US foreign policy should give way to a more...