One side-effect of Europe's financial crisis is the rise of fringe parties who want to dump the Euro and maybe the whole European Union. So it's not all bad news.
Some journalists swooned over France's new socialist president François Hollande. Reuters news agency said he'd "swept to victory ... in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe," while the Globe and Mail crowed about "historic regime change" as though the French had overthrown a murderous tyrant rather than voting out a clown. Put away the champagne. There is nothing to celebrate here. Click here to read the rest.
Even some of Barack Obama's friends are shaking their heads at the YouTube ad where Bill Clinton praises the president for going after Osama bin Laden, then a text box sneers: "Which path would Mitt Romney have chosen?" Liberal blogmaster and Obama supporter Arianna Huffington told CBS This Morning the ad was "despicable". Even worse politically, it's baffling. Click here to read the rest.