Don't really get Levine's point at all. I would like to see more about his book on what's wrong with our opium.

Putin has a lot of pluses on the Crimea thing.

1) He didn't send a top former General to the UN to lie about Crimean threats to the civilized world.

2) He did not engage in a shock and awe bombing campaign in Crimea.

3) He didn't bring in some Crimean ex-pat who lived in London the last 25 years to run the place.

4) He did not claim the Crimea has WMD while simultaneously starting himself on CIPRO.

5) He has not claimed he is a War President.

6) He has not said "Bring 'em On'.

7) He confined some troops to their ships/bases, but has not appointed Paul Bremer to fire them all, along with all police.

8) He has not touted the Crimea the world's newest democracy.

Thanks

The first part of the article on how everybody is a Liberal so nobody is a Liberal was a great distraction. The part about Vlad not being a serial offender means that we have to ignore the invasion of Georgia and supplying arms to Syria. Other than that, no harm, no foul.

RT is so open- minded that one anchor quit on air because of bias and another reporter posts regrets on working for the network because of bias at the network.. 

I'll get to how he trashes the Republicans when I get home. So fair it's read like an Onion article. Good humor to start the weekend. Thanks again.