• When two-term Russian president Vladimir Putin finally relinquished the title of presidency to the pupil of his gramarye of nearly two decades on May 7, 2008, Dmitry Medvedev, and on the next day assumed the office of Prime Minister (a position largely that of a busboy per the Russian Constitution); there was mass hysteria as…

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  • Friends, Americans, citizens of the World, lend me your ears; I indeed come to praise the Clintons, not to bury them: the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones—so let it be with the Clintons!  In summoning up words akin to Marc Anthony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral,…

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