Shrewd Putin falls not for Obama’s clumsy ploy. . .

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. . . invites diplomats’ kids to a party!

. . . rather than deporting diplomats in tit-for-tat retaliation, [Putin] instead invited the children of U.S. envoys to a New Year celebration for kids held at a concert hall on the grounds of the Kremlin.

Peeved president stumbles again.

via Russia Threatens to Expel Diplomats, Then Backs Off – WSJ

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Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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