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"He is running out of props... so he is grasping at whatever mirage might save him," University of Pitts, Prof. of Intern. Affairs Michael Brenner said "Thus, the idea of joining NATO." The fantasy that his Western masters would allow Ukraine to join NATO revealed the imaginary nature of the world Zelensky lived in, Brenner observed..... "Of course, it never will happen because it would mean all-out war with Russia. Even the lunatics in Washington are not that suicidal," he said. "He is at once script writer, director and central character. The worlds of fiction and actuality have merged in...

A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era. Not only did the SEIU help to organize the rally in conjunction with communists, they marched side-by-side with communists, while union members carried communist flags, communists carried union signs, and altogether there was no real way to tell the two apart. Southern California citizen journalist and photographer “Ringo” was on hand to record the day’s events, and posted a full-length photo essay on...

When your pet cause has been used as the background for an advertisement for Preparation H, you know your public support must be hitting a nadir. I almost drove off the road yesterday when I heard a commercial for the hemorrhoid medication that portrayed a father relating his daughter’s school play on global warming to his burning, itching nether regions. Give it up, Algor; America is officially tired of you. Maybe you could replay a few old Rodney Dangerfield routines to cheer you up; he didn’t get any respect, either

HOUSTON -- As one of the leaders of Houston's popular Lakewood Church, Victoria Osteen, wife of nationally renown pastor Joel Osteen, is known for her charity and Christianity. But a Continental Airlines flight attendant is accusing the co-pastor of one of the nation's most prominent megachurches of committing some very unchristian-like behavior. Opening arguments were set for Thursday in a civil lawsuit that accuses Victoria Osteen of assaulting flight attendant Sharon Brown before the start of a 2005 flight from Houston to Vail, Colo. Brown alleges in her suit that Victoria Osteen threw her against a bathroom door and elbowed...

It may be an obvious match-up, but Johnny Cash's classic "Ring of Fire" won't be used to sell hemorrhoid-relief cream anytime soon. The Tennessean of Nashville first reported late last month that a Florida TV production company wanted to pitch the idea of using the classic song in a commercial for Preparation H or similar products. Merle Kilgore, who wrote the 1964 hit with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, told the newspaper he was mightily amused by the idea when the production company called him. After all, he used to mock-dedicate the song "to the makers of Preparation H" whenever...

February 14, 2004 Files Offer Glimpse of Bush After CollegeBy RICHARD W. STEVENSON ASHINGTON, Feb. 13 ? It was February 1968, just a few months before he would graduate from Yale, and George W. Bush's plan to enlist in the National Guard had hit a snag. According to records released by the White House on Friday night, Mr. Bush reported to an Air Force base in Massachusetts for a medical examination on Feb. 21 of that year and was deemed "not qualified" because of problems with his teeth. So Mr. Bush visited a dentist in New Haven, Conn., on...