Category: No More Tyrants
It’s Not Climate Change that’s Killing Africa. It’s the UN.
While nearly the entire continent of Africa is dying of famine, disease, lack of potable water, and genocide, the UN has decided it knows what’s really causing all of that. Global Warming. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who attended Monday’s talks, said the drive to reach eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the U.N. General [...]
You Shall Know Them By Their T-Shirts
There are a couple delicious details about the Colombian government’s perfect hostage rescue I really didn’t notice until I read them this morning. First, not only did Colombian special forces rescue the hostages without firing a shot, they also captured the leader of a special FARC ring that deals only with hostages. So not only [...]
Let’s Hope the Cuban Propaganda Machine is Right.
Oh, I very much hope this is true. HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats of escalating anti-government activities in recent weeks and said its ideological foe, the United States, will be held responsible for whatever happens if the actions continue. The Foreign Ministry, in a statement published in state-run media, repeated charges [...]
Chalk Another One Up for the Good Guys – Colombia FARCs a Bunch of Terrorists and Gets to Poke Hugo Chavez in His Big, Fat Eye.
Man, I love it every time a bunch of filth terrorists and a tin pot dictator take one in the shorts. Colombia staged a daring raid today on the terrorist group FARC and rescued 15 hostages. Three of those hostages were Americans who were captured back in 2003 as well as former Colombian presidential candidate [...]
McCain Smash Puny Dictator Underling!
McClatchy has a breathless account of John McCain’s fiery and barely-controlled temper. It seems that on a diplomatic mission to Nicaragua, Johnny Mac grabbed a Sandinista lickspittle by the collar and gave him the business. Here’s how Senator Thad Cochran, who apparently barely controls the impulse to dive under a desk and assume the fetal [...]
The Tyrant Mugabe Smacktalks the The Whole Civilized World
Yet another tyrant thumbs his nose at the civilized world. SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will not step down and Western critics who called the country’s recent election a sham can “go hang,” the longtime ruler’s spokesman said Tuesday. Do you wonder what gives a man like Mugabe, who has killed [...]
2008 Olympics: Now Mostly Riot-Free!
Is there some really compelling reason that the IOC had to grant the Olympics to a tyranny as unrepentantly repressive as that of China? With authorities eager to present China as a harmonious nation during the August Games, the government has ordered local officials to defuse petition campaigns by discontented citizens and to prevent “mass [...]
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