While our press focuses on discrediting Sarah Palin, dispatching reporters to examine her relatives' driving records and the divorce records of her husband's ex-partner, important news relating to our national security goes virtually unnoticed. Thankfully, Investor's Business Daily knows what's important, as this new editorial once again proves. An excerpt:With Venezuela inviting Russia's navy into its waters, Chavez intends to show that he's not just a petrotyrant, but someone who can get control of our sea lanes too. Practically no one knows how vulnerable we are on this, but we really are. Nearly all of our imported oil must cross the caribbean sea lanes, and that is not just the 64% that goes directly to Gulf ports, but even oil coming from saudi arabia and going to long beach or alaskan oil going to new jersey, via the Panama canal. A Russian presence would create big potential for trouble. I argue that if russia could get effective...(Read Full Post)