On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question begs whether the world is a better place now that America has minimized its foreign policy goals and approach.    Only a few years ago it seemed that the rest of the world – particularly its traditional allies in Europe who gained so much [...]...

Forget the swine flu.  An outbreak of ‘moderate’ tagging has been rampaging through the U.S. media in the wake of Dede Scozzafava’s failed bid to win the vacant 23rd District seat in upstate New York.  Political journalists have been tut-tutting that the ‘moderate’ candidate decided to withdraw.  Whatever will happen next? But if Scozzafava is so [...]...