(Bumped up from 10/15)
Okay, I admit it – I have tried to be in total denial about the following interview of Secretary of State Clinton and Ann Curry. My aunt sent me the pertinent quote earlier this week, and I just didn’t want to believe it. I still don’t want to believe it, [...]

One just has to wonder what prompted the child in the video below to ask Obama the question he did. Maybe people in his household were decrying the lack of it, or maybe this child was picking up on the animosity in the air, or maybe he just wanted to share the good news [...]

Wow, that Charles Krauthammer really knows how to turn a phrase. As does French President, Nicholas Sarkozy. Oh, yeah. Check out this article, Obama’s French Lesson:
“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.”
– French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24
When [...]

I have thought what I would write about after my post on my beloved Sweetie (and I have been out of town helping to get my mom’s new Assisted Living unit set up for her this weekend). Honestly, I didn’t want to go off on anything or anyone today. Fortunately, thanks to NQ [...]

Before Obama majorly embarrassed Secretary Clinton. Oh, many of us knew this was coming – and it has happened on a smaller scale here and there (except during the Primaries in which Mr. Ditto copied almost ALL of her policy positions). Now, it is on the big stage, about a big issue: Iran. [...]

After relative silence from the President on the events unfolding in Iran, the White House is now intimating that his Cairo speech contained the seeds for the Iranian revolution we now see playing out in the streets of Tehran. But Anne Applebaum’s excellent piece today in the Washington Post, An Overlooked Force in Iran, [...]

I have been following the coverage of Iran this past week, listening to both sides, those who think Obama is setting the right tone by staying out of it, and those who think he is not being strong enough – basically voting present. Now, I assume that Obama is listening to many experts, people who [...]

As Iran holds another mass opposition protest, according to the NY Times, Obama is Under Pressure by from several camps to Strike Firmer Tone re the election in Iran:
WASHINGTON — As tens of thousands of Iranian protesters take to the streets in defiance of the government in Tehran, officials in Washington are debating [...]

President Obama doesn’t only bow to the Saudi king.
He’s now bowing to the theocracy in Iran as well, by spinelessly acquiescing to their demand to remove Dennis Ross from his position as US envoy.

UPDATE: “Report: U.S. Reporter Held in Iran Hospitalized“: “Reporters Without Borders says the American journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she intensified her fast by refusing to drink water.”
We realize she’s just a woman, and we know already how much they mean to [...]

The L.A. Times’s “In Baghdad visit, Clinton reassures Iraqis” points out:
Reporting from Baghdad — During an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure anxious Iraqis that the U.S. would not abandon them despite plans to start withdrawing U.S. troops soon.
Her visit coincided with a sudden surge of [...]

Hey, Everybody -
I have returned from my most fabulous, awesome Mediterranean cruise. I was met by three of the puppies (Lucky, Lani, and Leila), who are BIG now, running up and down the stairs to go outside, running all over the yard, playing, playing, playing. So cute. Hopefully, we’ll find homes soon [...]

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The Kim regime follows the stunt of its paymasters in Tehran by moving to prosecute American journalists.
You recall that last week the Tehran Twelvers condemned Roxana Saberi of New Jersey and North Dakota to eight years in Ervin Prison for spying.

“Clinton Takes a Dig at Cheney“:

BELOW, MORE HILLARY on Obama’s friendliness towards Hugo Chavez, the case of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, Turkey and Armenia, and Indonesia and the U.S. — even our policy on “hurricane hunters”!

There was a well-turned theater piece from the dreary Durban II confab at Geneva when a couple of French clowns shouted and danced during the routine rude remarks of Twelver faceman M. Ahmadinejad. What is fresh here is the hair-do of rainbow colors. It could be a [...]