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I'm reading Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott's newly released book "The Manchurian President" in preparation for Thursday night's interview, and it is a scorcher. It takes the authors 271 pages (not including another 54 pages of footnotes) to tie together a plethora of people and organizations that evolved out of the radical '60's to form the movement that produced the communist Barack Obama. Who now occupies the White House. (Victoria Jackson's song "There's a Communist living in the White House" comes to mind...) Be warned -- if you're reading The Manchurian President, you'll need a pen and notepad beside you...

The United States should find a way to collaborate with Russia in establishment of missile defenses, U.S. President Barack Obama said yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 29). "It is important for us to reach out to Russia and explore ways in which the missile defense configurations that we envision could potentially lead to further collaboration," Obama said after meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "We want to improve generally not only U.S.-Russian relations, but also NATO-Russian relations, while making absolutely clear that our commitments to all of our allies in NATO is sacrosanct," the president added, according to Agence...