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North and South Korea fire artillery shells across their tense western sea border, in one of the most serious clashes since the Korean War in the 1950s.

Experts in the region could not say if the calculated revelation is a negotiating ploy by North Korea or a signal that it plans to accelerate its weapons program even as it goes through a perilous leadership change.

Realizing that his START treaty has too many flaws to pass a reasonable examination President Obama devoted his weekly radio broadcast to the issue while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed it home doing the rounds of the Sunday talk shows.

Realizing that his START treaty has too many flaws to pass a reasonable examination Obama pulls out the stops and announces it as a priority for the lame duck congress where he hopes loyal Democrats will ignore the serious issues.

This is not about peace. It is not about fair negotiations. It is not about being an equal partner. It is about the same thing as in the UK or Australia or Canada or India. It is about giving Muslims what they want, at the expense of non-Muslims in the hopes of preventing Muslim violence. It’s about Apartheid.

The rush to ratify a flawed treaty undermines the important role of “advice and consent” that the Senate must exercise on any treaty of this magnitude.

The letter notes that never before in American history has the Senate seen fit to exercise its constitutional responsibility to provide quality control on treaties by effectively rubber-stamping a major strategic arms treaty in a lame-duck session.

“amidst a significant European economic crisis with major consequences for the United States and other countries,” less than two hours would be devoted to economic matters.

Sen. Kyl said the Senate should not consider the pact during the lame-duck session of Congress. President Obama has called passage of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) his top foreign policy priority during the lame-duck session that began this week.

“It is deeply disturbing that the administration is continuing to bail out the Palestinian leadership when they continue to fail to meet their commitments, under international agreements and requirements outlined in US law, including dismantling the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure, combating corruption, stopping anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement and recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”