The Times of London reported yesterday on “an historic defeat for the West in the UN Security Council ” as Russia and China vetoed a resolution that would have imposed UN sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe and his inner circle.  US UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad more correctly characterized it as a defeat for the people of Zimbabwe, who have suffered everything from violent political repression to starvation at the hands of

As reported in this morning’s New York Times: Asked to name a conservative model, [John McCain] skipped over the suggestions of three names typically associated with the conservative movement — Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Barry Goldwater, the founder of the modern-day conservative movement who occupied the Senate seat Mr. McCain holds today — to settle on Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. McCain has long admired Roosevelt, and in the interview he identified