Drudge is leading with Obama’s revealing open mike chat with outgoing Russian President Medvedev. Here’s the whole convo, courtesy of abcnews.

The Kremlin’s most recent response to U.S. and NATO missile defense plans in Europe crosses any and all lines associated with both statecraft and logic. Still, some view comments made by Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov as simply more of the same. Speaking at an international missile defense...

The Kremlin’s most recent response to U.S....

I keep replaying the video in my mind of the leader of the free world running a game of three card monte with the Russian government against the American people—especially that godawful little gesture where Obama reaches toward Medvedev for an intimate moment:

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, with six members of the Supreme Court present, President Obama famously attacked the Court’s Citizen’s United decision. At the center of Obama’s criticism was his completely erroneous contention that the decision opened the floodgates to foreign corporate spending in U.S. election campaigns.

Vladimir Putin will likely run for president of Russia in 2012; Dmitri Medvedev faces a stark dilemma: be a Khrushchev or a Gorbachev?

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Medvedev have widely contrasting visions of Russia's future, making it all but inconceivable that Putin would sit out the next presidential race.

This Outlook elucidates the key elements of Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's modernization campaign, listing the areas where it is badly needed but has not been applied, and suggests tests for its implementation.