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CBS News reports that the Obama administration has asked Israel to stop killing Iranian nuclear scientists. It was widely suspected that Israel had been behind a series of assassinations of key figures in the Iranian nuclear program, but never quite confirmed--until CBS' Dan Raviv cited sources close to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. Israel and the US have both used a variety of unconventional methods to attack Iran's nuclear program.

In the accelerating chronicles of the Democrat's decline, Barack Obama has just achieved a new level of disapproval among American voters: On the 990th day of his presidency, 52% of his countrymen disapprove of the Chicagoan, according to Gallup's latest three-day rolling average. That means Americans now think as little of their own president as they do of Vladimir Putin, the former Russian spymaster and authoritarian tough guy who's expected to become president again over there. That's gotta sting. Putin's the unsmiling fellow who's seen abroad as reining in Russia's democratic movement, limiting independent media and allowing a certain cult...

I wonder if there are any huge successes by our State Dep.? Some “achievements” of the agency seem to be just the opposite thing. The State Dep. did well in Yugoslavia. Did it really? How can it be so with Kosovo still a big thorn in our side? Next goes Russia and post communist space. In Russian Chechnya we were actually supportive of separatists linked to terrorists. Russians accused us of double-standard policy. INHO they were right. We should stay firm in our denial of terrorists and separatists. At times I think 9/11 could have been the result of our...