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From MSNBC : "What does it take to prove coordination under the FEC rules? To prove, for example, that an outside group’s ad was co...

From the Sun-Times : "But it's not healthy for political parties to embrace the mental state of the Michaels Jackson and Moore. ...

The new Swift Boat Veterans ad is all about John Kerry's anti-war activism. Which raises another issue: If Kerry thought the war wa...

Says David Hackworth : "Not that these abuses of the awards system are anything new. The U.S. military’s awards program -- designed ...

From Friday's Newshour : "JIM LEHRER: And finally tonight, the analysis of Shields and Kristol: Syndicated columnist Mark Shiel...

How one family spent their summer vacation, from The Wall Street Journal : "No!" the husband, who had swallowed his snack, shar...

In Newsweek , the former editor of Foreign Affairs, and student of Samuel Huntington, says why: "The more intelligent question is, g...

From The Wall Street Journal : "Nearly four years after the Thanksgiving Day when Elian Gonzalez was fished out of the waters off t...

From MeAndTed.com's Reese Schonfeld, founder of CNN and The Food Network: "Julia Child died last week as all of you must know b...

Philip Gourevitch in the New Yorker on another Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker for Kerry: "Errol Morris, whose inventive and s...

Michael Rubin thinks so: "If the National Security Council wants to put their hope in Ayad Allawi, they will be sorely disappointe...

The Egyptian filmmaker's new release, "Alexandria...New York," is profiled in The Washington Post : "Chahine said that...

From the Washington Post : "Pot-bellied, with a mop of shaggy gray hair, Mr. Bernstein worked much of his career in a filthy West L...

A really interesting segment on the NewsHour last night about John Kerry's decorations: "JIM LEHRER: More now on the charges ...

Zeyad reports on the National Conference: "Watching the proceedings of the controversial National Conference for the last three day...

In The Spectator : "Born in Alberta, raised in Arizona and Utah, and sent at the age of 14 to live with a male friend of her sist...

Leslie Walker reports : "Part of the site's appeal is that it still feels like the early days of the Web, with a text-only desig...

From the University of Notre Dame : "The Beaverton, Ore., native is the only fencer ever to win three gold medals at one World Cha...

From The Washington Post : "Sure, all these swimming races are exciting and inspiring and all that, but after a few days of watching...

The Scotsman reports on the publishing phenomenon (tip from Artsjournal): "With sales topping five million in English, Precious Ra...

By Anatoly Korolev : "Solzhenitsyn's recent appearance on television has dispelled the persistent rumors about him suffering fr...

James Fenimore Cooper wasn't Twain's only literary target. He also had some choice words for Jane Austen: "I haven't any...

By the way, Mark Twain wrote a critique of James Fenimore Cooper, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses . It might make good preparation f...

The Guardian's special report on Terrorism in the UK.

From Bjorn Staerk : "The Danes have been having their own little torture scandal this summer. A Danish officer-- Annemette Hommel--...

Jeff Jacoby writes : " In his 1989 memoir From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman wrote that "physical intimidation" wa...

This weekend we went to the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, where we saw Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur, an entertaining gh...

According to an article in The New Statesman, cited by Daniel Pipes , England is home not only to the Mother of Parliaments, but to British-...

George F. Will's column today may have been inspired by a C-Span caller, who challenged him vis-a-vis Republican attacks on John Kerry&...

...because they will remember you on your way down. To illustrate that proverb, here's the website for the Vietnam Swift Boat Veterans ...

Czeslaw Milosz has passed away, in his native Poland. He taught at Berkeley while I was studying philosophy, and although I never took his c...

Cheryl Benard writes in Opinion Journal : "The new generation of terrorists does not spare unarmed humanitarians. They do not leave...

From Healing Iraq : "As if the suffering of thousands of Najafis who were caught in between and the deaths of Iraqi policemen and ...

At www.afghanmagazine.com .

In the Washington Post, Sally Jenkins explains the history of the Olympics: "The truth is that Ancient Greeks competed naked rathe...

Watching the opening ceremonies from Athens, noted a reference to "the Olympic truce," which seemed a counterpoint to press storie...

Last night, we were in the kitchen cooking, while watching the Jim Lehrer NewsHour , where we heard the news that Julia Child passed away at...

From Russian Newsweek (via Ferghana.ru): "There is no cult of personality or superficial signs of totalitarianism in Uzbekistan. N...

Jason Stearns, in The Washington Post , does. "Who is to blame for the largest humanitarian catastrophe of our times? I am referrin...

Jacqueline Trescott says it is the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, in Washington, DC: "So now the museum is the g...

London Transport is doing away with its famous open-door double-decker red bus, according to The Washington Post .

Just finished reading my reviewer's copy of We the Media (thank you O'Reilly Publishing). Dan Gillmor's book on blogging h...

From The Economist (thanks to ArtsJournal): "Cornell University, for example, recently reviewed its policies on journal acquisitio...

Not very, says Mustafa Akyol : "Paul Johnson, an American engineer, was killed by al Qaeda after being kidnapped, as was Kim Sun-il,...

From Winds of Change (thanks to Nathan of the Argus for the tip).

A history exhibit at the I N T E R N A T I O N A L . S P Y . M U S E U M . (Tip of the hat to Ken Layne .

In Far Outliers .

From the Wall Street Journal : "One particular concern vis-a-vis the U.N. strategy was that Mr. Chalabi was starting to expose the ...

From the Weekly Standard : "Militant Buddhism may sound like a contradiction in terms, especially while Islamic holy war is hogging...

A profile of Brian Lamb, from The Idler .

From August 1999, with Michael H. Ebner : "Few individuals have done more to promote the reading of history and biography than Bria...

Brian Lamb cancels C-SPAN's "Booknotes" : "In announcing the cancellation of 'Booknotes' -- C-SPAN's popu...

He reviews Wars New and Old : "All this is a sober reflection on current events, and a needed reminder that President Bush is actin...

From Newsmax : "Kerry is no Al Gore. He is not going to sigh, roll his eyes and make up huge fabrications in the debates. Instead, ...

Stephen Kinzer in The New York Review of Books wonders : "Nine centuries after Pope Urban II sent the first Crusaders off to fight ...

A profile of Kwame Ryan in The Guardian : " "The young, British-educated conductor making his UK debut at the opening concert ...

From the San Francisco Chronicle : "John Kerry will lose this election, and he will do so decisively. The defeat will go down as pe...

Michael Rubin says Chalabi is being trashed under orders from Paul Bremer : "On August 8, Iraqi judge Zuhair al-Maliky issued arres...

Last night watched an episode of A & E's British ITV series Horatio Hornblower . It was a thrilling show called "Duel",...

The New York Observer profiles James Moll, who directed John Kerry's convention film, "A Remarkable Promise" : The Observ...

Michael Rubin on his visit to Turkey : "Last month, I visited Turkey for a series of meetings with Turkish government and military ...

An interesting blog : "Secretly terrified I was a big fake and would never be a writer, I considered quitting school, but couldn...

From Far Outliers (thanks again to The Argus for the tip).

In The Washington Post : "The confusion and horror of the French retreat through the Russian winter are well described. 'The ai...

From greenpass (thanks to Nathan at the Argus for the tip): "Georgia's one of those countries that should have it made. It has...

Blake Gopnik says it is having lots of stuff on display: "Two new museums open in the Washington area during the last year or so. ...

Michael Powell thinks so : "But not for the first time I looked at a fellow New Yorker and wondered at how resolutely we deny our u...

Zeyad writes : "Over 300 militiamen are reported dead and a 1000 have been arrested according to the governor of Najaf. Overall, th...

Another interesting story by Eliza Griswold in Slate, published last March: "Eliza Griswold traveled to the Democratic Republic of...

Watch the New Yorker correspondent, author of "In the Hiding Zone" in the July 18th issue (not online!), talk about her clandestin...

The Gantry Launchpad linked to us, so here's a link to them.

Just finished Boris Akunin's entertaining romp Murder on the Leviathan . It's a quick read, a fun homage to Agatha Christie. Here F...

From The Dialogue Project's Introductory Essay : "Islamism has become the biggest threat to the development and survival of de...

From The Spectator , an analysis of Eurotrip-The Movie (you may need to scroll down): "But, as I said, I was howling with laughter...

In The Spectator : "The Israelis seem to deserve President Bush's support in rejecting any Palestinian 'right of return'...

From Middle East Quarterly : "Working in a wretched totalitarian country was a conscious choice for archaeologists as it was for bu...

From Edward J. Epstein : "The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States reports that a Californian-trained bi...

The Washington Post explains the roots of Bush-hatred: "Anyone who hobnobs with progressives knows by now that a fair proportion o...

The Wall Street Journal publishes a tribute to the conservative intellectual movement, from one of its leading funders: "The conse...

The Telegraph has this interview with the author of The Winter Queen (discussed here recently) and Murder on the Leviathan (just got my ...

Today's Washington Post reports on the toll street closings, concrete barriers, checkpoints and sniffer dogs are having on the nation&#...

Nathan Hamm's online Philadelphia photo album .

According to Matt Drudge , John Kerry killed a fleeing, unarmed Vietcong guerrilla, after a firefight during the Vietnam War. But by remindi...

Peggy Noonan is joining the Bush campaign...

Just found out that Rant Street! links to us, so here's a link to the "forum for reasoned discussion of finance, politics and scien...

From MEMRI

From MeAndTed.com : "Journalists ordinarily shield their sources. Why has Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbal...

In today's Washington Post, Rama Lakshmi reports that Indian police torture suspects to death: "MEERUT, India -- Rajeev Sharma...

An interesting blog called US Mistakes in Iraq . Thanks to HealingIraq for the tip.

Iraq Blog Count has the latest blogs from Iraq...

From The New York Sun : "The Alamoudi story points to the urgent need that the FBI, White House, Congress, State Department, Pentag...

Ariel Cohen comments on the Tashkent embassy bombings: "A militant Islamic takeover of Uzbekistan may provide radicals with a stat...

USATODAY asks: So why did Bush, not Kerry, get the bounce?

In The Telegraph : "I scoffed at Edwards's 'two Americas' riff when he was peddling it in New Hampshire, because its no...

From Wanderlustress : "After a meeting at the American Embassy on Saturday, the Country Director and EMA Region Head of Security, d...

Andrew Apostolou says yes : "The terrorist attacks in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on Friday are a testament to the continu...

Dr.Rice's National Security Strategy was published in February, 2003 by The Brookings Institution : "A new U.S. strategy should...

According to The Washington Post : "Just before Ridge went on television, Homeland Security officials offered Kerry a classified br...

Charlie Cook says Ralph Nader could decide the Presidential election -- again : "But even if the Nader vote is a half, a third, or ...

Celebrating the end of slavery in the British Empire. The Trinidad Express explains the challenges that followed the 1834 proclamation, an...