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So Joe Biden has picked the runt of the litter, an also-ran loser in the Democratic primaries who never won a primary, barely escaped sitting at the kiddies table, whom the voters didn’t think was qualified to be president yet whom Biden wanted to be a heartbeat away. Or maybe his puppet masters, the voices in his earpiece, and the voices in his head picked her from a list loaded with more baggage than an airport carousel. As it is Biden picked a running mate that labeled him a racist opponent of school busing who cavorted and collaborated with segregationist...

If the uninspiring record of the United Nations Human Rights Commission was not already enough, two more instances have proven the body beyond repair. On February 14 the commission issued a report calling for the closure of the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay. This comes on the heals of the long overdue effort to pass genuine reform on the troubled organization. However, any hope for reform was dashed with the demand by the Organization of the Islamic Conference that all efforts must include amendments outlawing blasphemy. If the Human Rights Commission cannot get it right when it is under unprecedented...