Sorry, Hillary, but it may take a community to raise a welfare kid, but it takes a former slave colony of the Soviet Union to stand up to the recent sabre-rattling of Russian dictofiend Vladimir Putin.

To recall, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are the three former slave states resting on the Baltic Coast that were gobbled up by the Soviet Union during World War II and not released until the Evil Empire fell of its own rotten accord.

Just last week, in his State of the Union (union?) speech, Putin served notice that the Russian giant was back and wouldn’t stand for any nonsense threatening its borders.  So, what happens one day later to let him put his sabres where his mouth is?

Pay careful attention to what former Soviet President Boris Yeltsin calls former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the video clip below.  Remember that the comment applies equally (or in a greater degree) to any presidency by Hillary Clinton.

For comic relief, that video is followed by one of President George Bush dancing.

To conserve space, both are found on the continued page.

By Peter Zeihan
Courtesy of Strategic Forecasting

In the 19 years since the Berlin Wall was pulled down, the post-Cold War chronicle of the former Soviet empire has become the stuff of history. But the winds of change that blew over governments from Prague to Dushanbe also have swept west of the former Iron Curtain. In 2007, the last of the post-Cold War generation of Western European leaders will move on, heralding a fundamentally new era for all of Europe.

Against a backdrop of record turnout, the French electorate April 22 voted for a break with the past. Such a vote was not difficult to cast, as none of the 12 candidates could be accurately described as a preacher of continuity.

Where is Ronald Reagan when we need him to provide the proper perspective on everything?

Issue at hand:  Today is the seventh anniversary of the nation’s first same-sex marriage legisation, signed in the People’s Republic of Vermont by none other than Howard Dean, he of the primal scream fame.

Meanwhile I sense that most of the nation–at least on the two coasts–has just gone number and number* on the issue of same-sex marriage.

(* This is a take off on the Dumb and Dumber movie, not to be confused with the English word for quantity.)

I remember how King George I drew a line in the sand against Saddam Hussein back during Desert Storm, giving him until noon to start withdrawing his troops from Kuwait.  That strategy worked, in that it led to the allied forces’ being able to rout the Iraqis in a matter of days.  Now, had George I decided to keep marching into Baghdad and dethrone Saddam, would the results then have been any different that now?

My gut feeling is yes because the al Qaeda terrorist network wasn’t as highly evolved back then.

Flash forward, and now we have the Demofiends in Congress passing an Iraqi war (new one, circa 2003 and King George II) funding bill that requires the president to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by this fall.

Another line in the sand?

Say what you want about the politics and personality of Boris Yeltsin, the architect of Russia’s now-dwindling democracy, but the man knew how to handle his country’s equivalent of our country’s Demofiends.

I remember once how he called in the tanks to fire on parliament to dislodge some demogogues.  Now, however anti-democratic and cotradictionary that action may seem, it seems a valid way to end bombast, lies and political power-mongering.

Let’s see, the next time the Fiends move to orchestrate and micro-manage the war in Iraq, send in the tanks!  I for one would cheer, though I guess it wouldn’t be a very good precedent.

Rest in peace, Boris Yeltsin.  We could use some leaders with your courage to stand up to power-hungry liars.

If there’s one movement in America that most symbolizes Demofiend atrocities, it’s the labor movement.  What began as a legitimate set of organizations to protect workers’ rights has degenerated into a retrograde movement that blocks progress, eats up money on bloated salaries, and creates employees who do nothing and can’t be punished, sometimes even if they’re getting drunk at work.

Why do I bring this up?