Section: National Post (Canada)
Full Pundit: There’ll always be a Ford Nation
WEEKEND ROUNDUP There’s a new circus in townThe latest from Toronto, in case you missed it, is that Rob Ford is in hospital with an abdominal tumour, awaiting biopsy results. He is thus out of the mayoral race. Well, not thus exactly. He’s running instead for his old seat on City Council, which apparently is something he feels he can...
David J. Rothkopf: Barack Obama and the Middle East’s never-ending war
WASHINGTON — I have two grown daughters. Neither can remember a moment in which the United States did not have troops deployed in the Middle East. One was 10 months old at the time the first Gulf War effectively commenced with Operation Desert Shield in August 1990. I remember watching televised reports from Operation Desert Storm the following...
Leonid Bershidsky: What we can take from the MH17 crash
At first glance, the preliminary report on the July 17 crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine is pretty thin gruel. It does, however, rule out most explanations except the one that involves a ground-to air-missile. At the same time, it ends hopes that flight data might somehow reveal who shot down the plane, killing its 283...
Kelly McParland: Moscow threatens to hold itself hostage over tightened sanctions
In an early scene in Mel Brooks’s classic western farce Blazing Saddles, the new sheriff (a black man in an all-white town) pulls his pistol, points it at his own chin and threatens to shoot. “Isn’t anyone going to help that poor man?” a startled woman cries. After hauling himself safely off to his own jailhouse, the new sheriff...
