United Nations Reform
Well, this is another indication of why the United States should exit the United Nations: The United Nations approved a resolution targeting Israel and denying Judaism’s link to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Wednesday in a 129-11 vote. The resolution referred to the Temple Mount exclusively by its Muslim name, al-Haram al-Sharif. The text…
So, the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in keeping with his usual subject matter, utilized the podium of the United Nations to call for investigation into the conspiracy theory that the United States was behind the 9/11 attacks. And I’m sure he’s just a-fearin’ all over after the response of our own president: “It was…
Well hi-diddly-doo! The UN has admitted to over-estimating the AIDS epidemic. First, the reassessment: The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared…
The U.N. insiders who organized Stopbolton.org are pretty happy that their target has resigned. As Jim Barron’s indicates, there can be little doubt that Senator Chafee’s refusal to support the nomination of John Bolton to the U.N. was the unsurmountable hurdle. And that is something of which Chafee is quite proud: Chafee’s opposition to Bolton…
No word today from my Senators on their positions on UN reform. Here are some of the gory details. This is from Section 601 of the House version of UN reform.(1) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in paragraph (4) and in accordance with paragraph (2), until such time as all certifications (or alternate certifications) are…