Bob McCarty Writes

Almost a year ago, Bloomberg News broke the news of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grandiose plans to build a tunnel linking his nation and Alaska. Today, news about the bridge-building project is back. The UK’s Times Online reports that former KGB spy chief Putin plans to share his bridge-building plan with President George Bush when [...]

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Less than a week ago, I posted news that Russians Will Never Live in Freedom Under Putin from our friends at La Russophobe. Today, they alert us to an article published in a German magazine that contains some hard-to-believe news about Josef Stalin as …the New Pitchman for Vladimir Putin’s Russia: We’ve opined many times [...]

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For some interesting news about Russia under the thumb of President Vladimir Putin, I turn to our friends at La Russophobe who report this morning about foreigners being “purged” from the country that’s beginning to look more and more like the Soviet Union of the Cold War Era: The Moscow Times reports on barbaric bedlam [...]

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During his recent appearance at Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s declared that Iran doesn’t have any homosexuals. Thanks to my friends at La Russophobe, I’m able to produce evidence below that leads me to believe the diminutive dictator was probably lying about the matter and, in fact, is probably gay himself! And who would [...]

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THIRD UPDATE 9-12-07: It strikes me as odd that, with less than an hour remaining before midnight in Moscow, The Moscow Times has yet to publish a word about President Vladimir Putin’s dissolution of the Russian government. Obviously, the folks running the newspaper are either scared of the repercussions of publishing such news or they’ve [...]

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The words of a prominent poet, Tatyana Shcherbina, describe how things are in Russia under President Vladimir Putin: They’ve turned off all the hot water, My liquid of love, my stream of words. I should complain to the people, But a scarf’s been thrown over my mouth. Like this, without moisture of life, I’ll dry [...]

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Sixteen years ago today, the Soviet Union was transformed into a federation of free nations and literally disappeared from the maps of the world. Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have put the “vehicle” that is the United States’ former Cold War adversary in reverse and, in so doing, threatens to resurrect the Soviet [...]

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