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Much of Greece is expected to grind to a halt, with the country’s trade unions staging another 24-hour general strike against planned austerity measures. There are fears of renewed violence after protests in Athens two weeks ago led to the deaths of three people.

If senior journalist David Goldman is right, the correct word for describing the way a growing number of US Jews feel about President Barack Obama is not ‘anger’ but ‘rage’ – white-hot rage, at that, and a conviction that they have been swindled.

Sarah Palin’s Facebook post notes that many prominent critics of the Arizona immigration bill have not even read it and is outraged at the State Department’s apologetic mention of it to Communist China.

It would be hard to say which specific foreign policy of the Obama administration is worst. Iran sanctions? Russian relations? Attacks on Israel for Jewish settlements in Jerusalem? Trashing the special relationship with Britain? Insulting the Canadians in their own capital? Failure to secure the border with Mexico? We have an entire menu of foreign policy disasters to consider. Maybe if your perspective is from above it all, standing up there as sort of God, it looks better. For those of us with our feet firmly on the ground, it looks less heavenly.

In a letter to Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, the senators said that he “seemed to imply” during the recent U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue that Arizona’s law “is morally equivalent to China’s persistent pattern of abuse and repression of its people.”

Senior Democrats in the upper chamber and the Obama administration are looking to attach to the war bill a $23 billion fund to help state and local governments stave off teacher layoffs.

In a continuing bashing of America, an Obama administration diplomat brings up Arizona immigration law as example of US ‘problems’ on human rights – to China!

Here we are fighting a war against Islamic terrorism with many plots going on at the same time against America and here they are pulling over people who have bumper stickers they don’t like. If you look at the lexicon of that report, people who are strongly pro-life—that was something they were telling people to watch out for and possibly pull them over to question them.”

In a story about Greece getting the first 20 billion of its bailout money, the BBC reveals that a Deputy Tourism Minister Angela Gerekou was dismissed for unpaid taxes. Guess they don’t buy those Geitner excuses over there.

Acting like Robert Mugabe on cocaine, Venezuela’s dictator went on a shopping spree over the weekend, confiscating one farm and industry after another. After 12 years in power and $960 billion in oil earnings, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is down to stealing private swimming pools to bring the good life to Venezuela’s “poor.” It’s a new milestone on his road to ruin.