Pejman Yousefzadeh delivers a righteous and completely appropriate smackdown of communist apologists. The occasion is the death of that monster Kim Jong Il, but the sentiment is proper anytime.
As he says, someday we'll ostracize communist sympathizers the same way we do Nazi sympathizers. Someday.
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Oooohkay. Maybe I screwed up. I thought that the link to the article went to Glenn's post, not directly to the article. Wish we could delete comments.
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Could you imaging decades after the American Civil War an extensive academic caste rationalizing and romanticizing the benefits and purity of slavery? /rhet question
It's not an issue of 'academic freedom'. It's a total lack of intellectual integrity.
KIEV: A Ukraine appeals court on Friday upheld the guilty verdict and seven-year jail sentence imposed on former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko over abuse-of-office charges in a case that has soured Ukraines ties with the West.
The ruling suggests Tymoshenko, an opposition leader whose party is one of the key contenders in the October 2012 parliamentary election, is unlikely to go free in the near future.
The court has left the (original) ruling unchanged, a spokeswoman for the appeals court said.
Tymoshenko, the fiercest opponent of President Viktor Yanukovich, was sentenced in October for overstepping her powers in forcing through a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
The European Union this week put off signing agreements on political association and free trade with Ukraine, citing Tymoshenkos case as an example of selective justice.
Tymoshenko, who has denied any wrong doing, had boycotted the appeal trial calling it biased. She has filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights which plans to fast-track it.
Tymoshenko, 51, twice served as prime minister after leading the 2004 Orange Revolution which ruined Yanukovichs first bid for the presidency. Yanukovich, who beat her in the 2010 presidential run-off, said this week he had nothing to do with her case and it was up to the courts and lawmakers to decide Tymoshenkos fate.
Ukraines parliament, which is dominated by Yanukovichs supporters, on Thursday voted against considering an amendment that would have struck her alleged offense from the criminal code.
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Fair amount of sympathy for her by the EU. Did she do the crime she was charged with? Or is this a lot of sympathy for a hot looking blonde that happens to really like Russia?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
