He's a tattooed guitar slinger who covers Motorhead and scored tour sponsorship from Jagermeister. Rick Monroe plays hard-core, raw, in-your-face ... country. ...more

March 13, 2009

Barack Obama's remarkable election has inflicted a stunning defeat on Republicans and conservatives, apparently reversing the pro-market Reagan revolution that began in the early 1980s. Conservatives are now beginning what will be a long period of soul-searching to understand what went wrong and how they can rebuild. ...more

November 22, 2008

Vladimir Putin still resembles what he once was: the head of the KGB. ...more

August 14, 2008

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Alexander Solzhenitsyn "one of the greatest thinkers, writers and humanists." ...more

August 6, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama stood before a sea of cheering admirers on Thursday and sought to inspire fresh cooperation among American allies to defeat terrorism and other threats. ...more

July 25, 2008

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Wednesday urged the creation of a national museum and memorial to honor victims of Soviet-era repression and to document their demise. ...more

June 5, 2008

The Left's favorite dictator, Fidel Castro, is "resigning" as Cuba's president of the Council of State. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who was born in Cuba and, at the age of 15, along with his brother, was evacuated from Cuba during Operation Pedro Pan, observed: "...Castro has resigned from a position he was never elected to in the first place." ...more

February 22, 2008

Americans who love celebrities follow the escapades of Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. The British consume themselves with the romantic lives of their royals. But in Moscow, where raw political power and big money hold sway, it is the children and grandchildren of politicians and oligarchs whose love lives, fashion tastes and socializing are widely chronicled. ...more

December 17, 2007