Embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is busy trying to save his butt. The recent local elections were a terrible blow to the successor of Tony Blair. His party was wiped off the map. He knows that he and his top advisers, and nobody else, are responsible.

Yet, he hangs on to power. Why? Well, that’s what politicians do. In the end, most of them don’t care about their country or their party. No, they care about one thing, one person only: themselves.| MORE ›

Two Americans were arrested on the suspicion of spying for heavily socialist Cuba:

A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described as “incredibly serious.”

Those darn Muslim or Hispanic (or both!) immigrants! Oh, wait:| MORE ›

One of the great things about living in the land of the free and the home of the brave is never knowing what you’ll wake up to in the morning.  And a day of rodding around some dusty Texas dirt roads in an old pickup before heading to the lake to cool off puts me in the mood for a little Clint Eastwood-style roundup of some of today’s news. (more…)

American President Barack Obama once again succeeded in insulting a major ally today:

America’s First Family will not be dining with President Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, even though they are staying at the residence of the US Ambassador, yards from the Elysée apartments where the Sarkozys spend their weekends.

The Sarkozys invited the Obamas over for dinner, but the latter declined.| MORE ›

The results for the this week’s elections in European are in. Well, some of them, at least. The conclusion: Labor lost big.

Let’s start with the local elections in Britain, after which we’ll spend some time to the elections for the European Parliament.

In Britain Labor was dealt a major blow:

Gordon Brown was dealt another huge blow last night when Labour lost all its remaining county councils in its worst ever local election results.| MORE ›

National Review comes with the following quote from Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who will soon join the Supreme Court:

It involves three judges who go duck hunting. A duck flies overhead and the supreme court justice, before he picks up his shotgun, ponders about the policy implications of shooting the duck—how will the environment be affected, how will the duck hunting business be affected if he doesn’t shoot the duck, well by the time he finishes, the duck got away.| MORE ›

It’s utterly unbelievable, but it seems that Robert Fisk isn’t the biggest Obama worshipper in the (media) world. Here is what Newsweek editor Evan Thomas recently had to say about the 44th president of the United States:

Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC:| MORE ›

Caroline Glick:

From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama’s speech was a renunciation of America’s strategic alliance with Israel. 

Rhetorically, Obama’s sugar coated the pathologies of the Islamic world — from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its societies.| MORE ›

Like most of his fellow ‘journalists,’ Robert Fisk passionately supports Obama. Be sure to read his latest piece; it’s a classic already:

Preacher, historian, economist, moralist, schoolteacher, critic, warrior, imam, emperor. Sometimes you even forgot Barack Obama was the President of the United States of America.

Jolly good. He’s a Great Man, isn’t he? Well, a man, that isn’t correct, of course. He’s more like a god. The God.| MORE ›