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Hand signals often have important meanings that say a great deal without using words. We all know what “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” mean. In the United States, touching the tips your forefinger and thumb while raising the other three fingers means “everything is OK.” In other cultures that sign is a serous profanity. Winston Churchill used to use the “V for victory” sign with his forefinger and middle finger. And then there is President Obama, who has mastered the “half V” to the American people. On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, while speaking at...

Barack Obama may be in Warsaw as part of a European tour, but in a real sense he’s stuck in Washington. At a joint press conference after a state meeting in Poland, Obama got questioned about the deal that exchanged Bowe Bergdahl for five high-ranking Taliban detainees, including two wanted by the UN for crimes against humanity. Obama mainly avoided discussing the detainees, although he insisted that he was “confident” that the US could prevent them from being a threat to American security in the future.Instead, Obama defended the action by focusing on Bergdahl, perhaps learning a lesson from...