From World Net Daily: National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones’ recent statement that President Obama would be prepared to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if Tehran resumes negotiations over its nuclear enrichment program has fueled speculation that such a meeting could occur late next year just as the U.S. presidential campaign season is to [...]

From NewsMax.com: Saddam Hussein’s leading lieutenant accused the United States of abandoning Iraq and leaving the country to die, according to a British newspaper interview to be published Friday. Tariq Aziz, whose long tenure as Saddam’s foreign minister made him the international face of the Iraqi dictator’s regime, was quoted by The Guardian newspaper a [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The provocative proposal came as Iran dealt with a new wave of international sanctions – driven by Washington – aimed at pressuring the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme. “Toward the end of summer we will hopefully be there for the (UN) General Assembly and I will be ready for one-on-one talks with Mr Obama, [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: The President may think that his single-digit approval ratings in Israel are simply because his middle name is “Hussein,” but he’s wrong. In mid-July, the President gave his first interview with Israel’s Channel 2 news, and he was asked to explain why he thinks he has only a single digit approval rating [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Trust, but don’t bother to verify. That is the Obama Administration’s latest message about how the United States of America ought to manage the most fearsome weapons known to man. There are severe deficiencies in the New START arms control treaty. In particular, the means for verifying that Russia is actually [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Barroso believes that the relationship with the White House and the EU has been affected by disagreements on how to tackle the global economic crisis, as well as climate change and trade reform. In an interview with The Times, Mr Barroso said the US should reach out to Europe, calling on a “mutual” relationship. “The [...]

From Townhall.com: Ok, that’s not exactly what President Obama said during an interview this week regarding U.S.-Israeli relations, but the underlying message comes pretty darn close: During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, [...]

From Michelle Malkin: The most glaring sign that President Obama’s announcement of border funding and National Guard troops is one big, phony charade? He apparently didn’t even bother to let the governor of besieged Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, know about it. Via Yahoo News: The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as [...]

From CNSNews.com: Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate in the 2009 Afghan presidential election, said the July 2011 date set by President Barack Obama for U.S. troops to draw-down from Afghanistan is problematic because it creates a perception of mixed messages about U.S. commitment to the country. Dr. Abdullah explained that talks about withdrawing troops send [...]

From Townhall.com: Obama’s “American Apology Tour” rolls onward.  AP reports: The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002. The Obama administration wants to push Beijing to treat its citizens better, but it also needs Chinese support on Iranian and North Korean nuclear standoffs, [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Barack Obama has warned Israel he will pave the way for an independent Palestinian state if the peace process remains deadlocked until the autumn. The US president is proposing to hand control of the Middle East peace process to the international community unless there is a breakthrough in the next few months, Israeli [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: France’s tricolor, Britain’s Union Jack and even Croatia’s coat of arms have been lifted above those nation’s installations in Haiti. But in the United States camp, “whose contributions dwarf the rest of the world’s,” no flag is allowed to fly. Why? The Obama administration has forbidden it. USA Today reports: The lack of [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: I wrote back in June about the shameful silence of the Obama administration during the mass street protests that greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent re-election victory as President of Iran. As White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ludicrously put it, the administration was “impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm this election generated.” [...]

From World Net Daily: One day after the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao snubbed President Obama at the United Nation’s Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Chinese warned the United States that China’s ability to continue buying U.S. Treasury debt was limited. Zhu Min, the deputy governor of the People’s Republic of China, told the Shanghai Daily [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama — a wartime president who has just ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan — was greeted by anti-war protesters and banners in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday. The Associated Press reported that posters around Oslo feature a campaign image of Obama reading “Change?”  The posters refer to Obama’s expansion of the [...]

From World Net Daily: President Obama has dispatched a delegation this week to The Hague to explore issues involving the United States’ possible participation in the International Criminal Court, an organization critics charge could be used to prosecute Americans under international legal standards for actions that are not crimes in the U.S. Andy Laney of [...]

From RightWingNews.com: The headline up top is borrowed from Power Line, “Why is This Man Bowing?” (via Memeorandum): Obama’s breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on [...]

From NewsMax.com: MADRID – U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to send Cuba a message about reform when he met Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, the newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday. Six days after their meeting on October 13 at the White House, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos visited [...]

From HumanEvents.com: President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today. By awarding Obama that prize, the Nobel committee has placed Obama in the same category as Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and the late terrorist Yassir Arafat.  We could not agree more. Nobel prizes are won for achievement, supposedly, in the arts, sciences [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader. It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting Washington in 1991. The Buddhist monk arrived in Washington [...]