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Name one high-profile issue that’s going well right now for Secretary of State John Kerry. Russian troops are still sitting on the Ukrainian border, and Russian-backed militants haven’t backed off inside the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is still taking Kerry’s calls, but not seeming to care much about what’s being said. Syrian President Bashar Assad announced Monday he’s running for re-election, unopposed, eight months after firing nerve gas over President Barack Obama’s red line. Kerry’s attempted peace process reboot between the Israelis and Palestinians has stalled out. And then, “apartheid” — what the future could hold for Israel...

Like an aging porn star, Obama’s infrastructure-focused economic stimulus scheme fails to rise to the occasion. ... Obama seeks to impassion the economy by (re)building infrastructure such as parkways to patrons, bridges to backers and damns to donors. It is Obama’s reliance on specific political cells in the American economic ecosystem that will doom the States to a prolonged recession while reinforcing Obama’s infrastructure — his political base — for the next two campaign cycles. Three vectors sweetly summarize people who collectively comprise the economy including all those Obama purposefully leaves behind. First, people are spread across geography from coast...

ISRAELI researchers are looking into whether spider venom could help cure impotency after men bitten by arachnids experienced prolonged erection, a newspaper reported today. The research was launched after observations that some men bitten by spiders "suffered from prolonged erections," the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said.