Rooskies love ratski, and can find plenty in Snowden

So plucky little NSA rat Edward Snowden is safe in Russia, a country that has apparently started to give free speech lessons to America.

Beautiful. We used to want to beat the Rooskies in the Olympics; now they’re hiding out our whistleblowers, gaining the kind of moral high ground you don’t get by winning the gold in women’s powerlifting.

In the United States, if you kill 25 people at the behest of some organized crime “boss” and you turn rat, we cuddle you, give you a new name and ship your ratty self to the suburbs of Omaha, where you are free to open a doughnut shop.

If, on the other hand,...