With North Korea's rocket, Obama's hope is shot back down to earth

History may one day record it as a stark irony - and let us hope an amusing one rather than the tragic kind - that on the very day that Barack Obama was sketching out to an adoring throng in Prague his vision of a post-nuclear world, North Korea launched a rocket that may one day give it the capacity to fire a nuclear warhead as far as 3,700 miles. This means, to get down to brass tacks, that it could hit Alaska. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Apr. 6, 2009

Scaremonger, Rush, is going to love this article--milking it for all it's worth. Since it's a UK article, one quote is appropriate: "Much ado about nothing." Don't "journalists" have more to do than merely speculate?

Jesus! Talk about right-wing radicalism. Okay, if I'm wrong. pray I'm under the first North Korean nuclear missile.

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