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...And other things, in this article . I agree with Pipes that things may be getting worse, especially vis-a-vis the Islamist issue. However...

Flash to Ambassador Fried! After your remarks rejecting Russian self-determination, according to the Moscow News , Russia wants to close US ...

. . .is nothing new, nor is it particularly American, or anti-religious. It is at least as old as the Puritan movement, faith of New England...

It seems that actually helping people, instead of lecturing them, had made America better liked in Pakistan, according to an article in the ...

Today's Drudge Report had an item about this report by UCLA professor Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo of the University of Missouri. So...

In a December 14th appearance at the American Enterprise Institute , the assistant secretary, Bureau of European & Eurasian Affairs, U.S...

According to Reuters : A straw poll conducted after voting closed in Iraq's election on Thursday showed the dominant Shi'ite Islamis...

The Washington Post seems to be on a roll today. Here's their Outlook section essay by Vladimir Bukovsky about the damage torture does-...

David Finkel has a fascinating front-page article in the Washington Post today, about the National Democratic Institute's program in Y...

By Murray Waas. (ht War and Piece) By Howard Kurtz, in the Washington Post. By John Roderick, also in the Washington Post.

I found a link to this item I posted on Registan.net on April 23rd, 2005 , about a US News and World Report article that is evidence for the...

Just met the Professor of Rock here in Washington, DC, who told me about his Golden Oldie radio show. After he told me about how he got int...

Thanks to a mention on New Eurasia.net by Nick , I read this very interesting interview with an Islamist terror cell leader in Uzbekistan in...

AOL founder Steve Case is in Big Trouble on the Big Island, and so is his lawyer father. Their business venture has been sued for $750 milli...

For crimes against humanity. Apparently, Germany allows legal action for crimes committed in other countries, according to this story in the...

...a lot of them don't like it. Your can read the debate here .

Johnson's Russia List tipped us off to this interesting post about Russian pop music from Russia Blog : One of my co-workers asked me wh...

Speaking of time in the slammer, conservative diva Ann Coulter 's Christmas wish list apparently includes a visit to jail--she's ask...

Felix Kulov, the current Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, a former Mayor of Bishkek and KGB officer, was sent to a Soviet-style penal colony by...

This month's copy of Russia Profile had an interesting book review by editor Andrei Zolotov, Jr. of Yelena Chudinova's dystopian th...

The arrest of David Irving in Vienna on charges of denying the Holocaust is an interesting development. In a Spectator column calling for ...

Shmuel Rosner has an interesting analysis of how elections may lead to more terror in the Palestinian Authority controlled areas: "Did...

I'm certainly no expert, but it seems to me that the focus on the Iraqi election may be misplaced. Democracy is about a lot more than el...

I discovered Topix.net in a Google search of links to my website. They had put my article on Larry Markowitz's Uzbekistan talk on their...

On Fox News, via AP, today.

In Russian Blog: My Political Credo .

This 'n That explains that Tookie Williams was a gambler until the end...

The other night we watched our third Jacques Becker film: Casque d'Or . Like La Trou and Touchez Pas au Grisbi, it was superb. This one ...

So much has happened, that I didn't have a chance to blog about last week's Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. By now the world knows t...

Just got back from The Heritage Foundation , where I heard Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speak about "International Support for...

The famous Central Asian author has an interview in the Israeli newspaper, linked on Registan.net.

This is a nice post about some of what Opera means to my Israeli cousin .

Steyn is in fine form today. He does a great job on US State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli's pathetically weak response to Iran'...

I'm not surpised by this Haaretz story : The Foreign Ministry believes that the European Union has violated international law by talking...

I'm not alone, certainly, to feel a twinge at the passing of Eugene McCarthy. I remember walking the hallways of my Bronx apartment buil...

That's the gist of this Financial Times story linked on Free Republic . It's not a bad idea, in principle. USAID obviously has more ...

I'm really beginning to like The American Thinker . I don't know who's behind it, but they sure have some interesting and intell...

I had the good fortune to attend the Global Uzbek Council's Uzbek Festival at American University last night. Yes, there was plov and s...

  

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Ann Coulter , herself a pretty good lawyer, says a recent ruling by a Texas judge is a legal victory for Tom Delay (R-TX).

Maybe I missed this when it first came out in September, but it seems worth mentioning that George Soros's Open Society Institute is sti...

A Canadian acquaintance reminded me that there were riots at Concordia University in Montreal a few years ago that bore more than a passing ...

...the worse it looks for President Bush. Here's a story about the US warning Saudi Arabia three years before 9/11 that Bin Laden may h...

The tragic story at the Miami airport recalls the fact that mentally ill individuals are far more likely to be killed by police. I googled t...

There's a classic Soviet film by Pudovkin titled Chess Fever! . The hero goes mad for playing chess. Well, someone I know is addicted to...

David Vise and Mark Malseed were at the downtown Washington Borders this afternoon to talk about their new book. Unfortunately, I missed th...

Thanks to a link from Roger L. Simon, I read this interesting posting on Bad Hair Blog about the latest intellectual fallout from the French...

In today's Wall Street Journal, Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld blames the American press for his failure to accomplish the mission in...

According to whispers at the AEI this morning, it was because Condoleeza Rice forced him out. But why? A Democratic source has this today, ...

After a somewhat depressing NGO conference at the American Enterprise Institute, where the former general counsel of USAID reiterated that i...

Comparing FDR to George W. Bush may not be fair, but four years after Pearl Harbor the USA had crushed Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Impe...

"Evidence From Uzbekistan" was Dr. Lawrence Markowitz's subtitle for tonight's talk (the title is above) on the role of th...

Writing for the Weekly Standard , Thomas Joscelyn seems to say so: IN THE CIA's continuing campaign against the Bush administration, the...

That's his reaction to President Bush's Plan for Victory speech.

The American Thinker has a post on recent riots in Aarhus, Denmark--sparked by publication of a cartoon of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper ....

We enjoyed Touchez pas au grisbi so much that last night we watched Jacques Becker's last film, La Trou . It's a prison escape dra...

According to Ha'aretz, Sharon is worried that Iran's nuclear program has not been stopped , probably due to the fact that the Irania...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger believes that logic of political Islamism demands the suicide of Arab civilization. As a German, he should know som...

There's an interesting post on Siberian Light concerning British reports of Iranian training for Chechen terrorists. Do I believe it is...

Speaking of Russia, my Winter 2006 issue of Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs arrived in the mail yesterday, and it looks pretty intresting...

1) An embattled and defensive President Bush is trying to paint a rosy picture of the hand-over of military and police responsibilities t...

Yesterday evening, at the W.P. Carey Forum of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and SAIS Russian and Eurasia Studies Program talk by Dr. A...