Leonid Brezhnev

Analysis: Russia's energy economic woes

Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2008 - Several months ago Russia's finances seemed unassailable -- record-high oil prices had brought an unprecedented amount of petrodollars to Moscow, and the state-owned Gazprom natural gas monopoly...

Beijing Olympics Brings Big Trouble to Chinese Regime

Melamine scandal and other troubles pile up By D.J. McGuire Nov 14, 2008 Over the weekend, we discovered once and for all what a disaster the 2008 Beijing Olympics really were for the Communist regime. The Washington Post, in...

David Wilkins Is Pretty Funny

In light of the big government disaster that current Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell has inflicted on the state of South Carolina, we're starting to realize that things might have not been so bad under former S.C. Speaker...

The Man with the Golden Touch by Sinclair McKay

Peter Robins reviews a jaunty history of the Bond films Many critics have treated Ian Fleming, the author of the Bond books, as an overlooked genius. But such writers have tended to regard “Roger” and “Moore” as dirty words. In...

Ruler, ruler on the wall...

I opened a magazine to see an advert that proclaimed: ‘Everything will be OK.' But if life is good today, how does it compare with other periods of Russia's long history? Perhaps unsurprisingly, our former president and current...

SPENGLER : A Pyrrhic propaganda victory in Rome?

After the fall of communism, the world's greatest barrier to freedom has been the absence of religious liberty in the Muslim world. With this in mind, free people everywhere took a profound interest in the outcome of Pope...

Commentary: How The U.S. Can Fix Its Reputation Abroad

Intellpuke: This commentary was written by Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Mr. Talbott was U.S. deputy Secretary of State for seven years in the Clinton administration. His commentary...

Two Fellow Soldiers Served Together

On the same day that Barack Obama accepted victory in the U.S. presidential election, President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia delivered his own annual State of the Nation Address. In their diverse approach to the same global...

Crude Forgeries Are a Dictator's Stock-in-Trade

After winning the power struggle against Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin disseminated photographs of himself standing next to Vladimir Lenin doctored to make it seem as if Stalin alone was the designated successor to Lenin. In...

In with the new, out with the old

FRANK WALLIS • Bulletin Staff Writer • November 8, 2008 A press that has served the people of the Twin Lakes Area since June 21, 1973, fell silent Friday. Today's issue of The Baxter Bulletin — Volume 107, Edition No. 278 — is...

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