LaurenceJarvikOnline

Text from BBC Monitoring : My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. I had not intended to speak to ...

At least, according to the Moscow Times...

In my googling for the Jill Carroll story, I found this interesting blog about Iraq blogs-- Iraq Blog Count .

Al Jazeera reports kidnapped American freelancer Jill Carroll was "anti-occupation": Muthana Harith al-Dhari, head of the influe...

I got to know Brooks Boliek a decade ago, when he covered PBS for the Hollywood Reporter. Here's his remembrance of supervising Jill Car...

Julie Moskin's NY Times article today about Central Asian restaurants in "Regostan" (Rego Park, Queens) and Brighton Beach br...

From Kenneth Roth's introduction to Human Rights Watch's 2005 Annual Report : President Bush continued to offer deceptive reassuranc...

Here's the latest story from London's Telegraph , about incitement to suicide bombings directed at tourists: Abu Hamza, the Muslim p...

I hope this John LeBoutillier article is about New York's Rudy Giuliani running for President: The ‘playing field’ is being ‘prepped’ a...

The BBC is reporting a resurgence of the Taliban: The US envoy to Nato has said that a British-led military force due to move into southern...

Roger L. Simon tipped us off to this item about phony anti-American propaganda published on the NY Times's website: So the formerly aut...

Daniel Pipes obviously has chutzpah. He doesn't accept the doctrine of infallibility. Today he argues that Pope Benedict is mistaken abo...

Another Netflix goodie: Killer Bait (1949). Lizabeth Scott is a really bad femme fatale, a true sociopath, so convincing in her lies that I...

Coretta Scott King explains : The Holiday commemorates America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence --- the man who taught by...

From the Anoniblog Wiki: Across the globe, countries that discourage free speech have followed their citizens into the blogosphere. Accordi...

From an inteview with the author of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Q. What are the key themes and central messages of your book? What is your underl...

Here.

I'll defer to the professional expertise of the law professor and blogger : Ah, thank God, it's finally over! I waited so long for ...

Earlier this week, I had a chance to hear Dr. Margaret Paxson present a book talk at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center about her study ...

Channel 4 News reports: Abu Hamza preached that killing non-Muslims was justified even if there was no reason for it, the Old Bailey has hea...

The International Crisis Group has been one of the most outspoken advocates of tough sanctions, boycotts, and international investigations o...

This morning I attended a fascinating series of panels at the American Enterprise Institute, called Dissent and Reform in the Arab World: ...

From The London Time's Sean O'Neill: TWO very different Abu Hamzas appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday as the trial of the former i...

I was struck by how feeble current Human Rights Watch reports on Saudi Arabia seem, when compared to their extensive campaign against Uzbek...

Lunched today with Saudi dissident Dr. Ali Alyami, who asked tough questions of Condoleeza Rice at the Heritage Foundation a little while ag...

The New York Times ran this dull Alan Cowell story , haven't seen the paper yet to find out what page. My guess is that it's not pag...

Here's The Guardian's account : The Muslim cleric Abu Hamza encouraged his followers to murder "non-believers", the Old Ba...

Here's another good film for your Netflix queue, John Ford's 1958 classic The Last Hurrah . I had seen it years ago, and remembered...

I found this tribute to Chopin while following up on Jerzy Antczak's film version of the composer's life. It has lots of interestin...

Louise Doughty tells you how to do it, in this article from London's Telegraph . For those of us who come from decidedly non-literary ba...

Seems like some sort of strange charade, people going through the motions of an inexplicable marathon ritual. Unless there are some dramatic...

You can see a lot of nice pictures of Estonia and Russia at New Year's over on Scraps of Moscow .

I'm really getting into discovering 360-degree panoramas on the internet. Here's one of the Great Wall of China .

Did Viktor Yushchenko think things through before he scorned Yuliya Tymoshenko? KIEV, December 10 (RIA Novosti) - Former Ukrainian Prime Mi...

From Australia's The Age : THE US Army in Iraq has been accused of cultural ignorance moralistic self-righteousness, unproductive micro-...

Kate was one of the few people who was nice to me after I left the world of conservative think-tanks. Although we don't always agree on ...

The Canadian wit discusses State of Fear and the Kyoto protocol--siding with Michael Crichton against the Green movement: Question: Why do ...

According to this United Press International story , the hapless former American viceroy in Baghdad appears to be trying to scare Holland in...

The news that retired New York Timesman David E. Rosenbaum had been murdered a few blocks from our house has been troubling. Most disturbin...

Found this link to Arounder , a website featuring 360-degree panoramas of international tourist destinations. You can check out the Acropoli...

Today's NY Times ran a shorter (and almost censored-sounding) version of Dan Bilefsky's International Herald Tribune article about...

The blogger , author, and Hollywood screenwriter wonders: Is Google Video the future of the media industry?

From today's Washington Post : Come closer, I don't want to shout this: The Redskins are the luckiest people alive. Did you hear me?...

The other day I watched Jerzy Antczak's musical biography Chopin: Desire for Love on DVD. It is the third film about Chopin and Georges...

Empire State Plaza, 2005

Martin Chulov writes: What next for Israel is a question intrinsically tied to the immediate future of the Middle East. The options for much...

Writing in US News and World Report , Barone declares that blogs helped Bush and the Republicans by discrediting the mainstream media, while...

Hollywood blogger This 'n That compares yesterday's tragic news from West Virginia to what happens in Billy Wilder's classic fi...

Just received this email today: Dear Readers, Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton's important new documentary, Covering Cuba 4: The Rats...

Today's Johnson's Russia List has this interesting article from La Stampa (translated by BBC Monitoring) explaining what Putin is u...

A stroke of key is a Russian blog that links to this website. I'll add it (and Netflix Fan) to my blogroll, asap. So check it out...

Can be found on the Netflix Fan blog . . .

Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert answered questions in a revealing online interview with Haaretz.com last June 15th, which noted th...

I guess I'm not all alone after all. Konstantin's Russian Blog says Western criticism of Russia is ridiculous: The way Western main...

I've had a link in my blogroll for a little while, and today the Washington Pos t is puffing Bull Moose, aka Marshall Wittman. Most of ...

Tucker Carlson turns state's evidence against his former conservative colleagues on MSNBC : Why were supposedly honest ideological conse...

It's all over but the shouting, according to Reuters . I still say Russia won this particular confrontation with the West. Let's see...

Today's Washington Post editorial about serious problems with US foreign aid programs is so good, I'm going to quote it in full. W...

I may the only one who believes this--I can't even convince people I know--but it looks to me like Russia is winning the Ukrainian gas s...

Our cat Moxie died suddenly last Wednesday, just fell over and was gone within a minute. It was a real "sudden death." We had ne...

Through a link on Registan, I came across Tim Newman's blog, which he calls White Sun of the Desert . For those who don't know Russ...

Turns out, it's really not transgressive , after all...

It's worth considering Mark Cuban's financial advice for 2006 , since he's made a lot of money for himself and some of his inves...

I wondered what that long, weird article by about bloggers by Katherine Seelye in today's NY Times business section was all about, so I...

We got a nice surprise New Year's Day call from a couple of our friends in London--by cell phone, they were sitting in Joe Allen's -...

Speaking to the BBC, British Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks warned that the rapid spread of Islamist extremism threatens to flood the worl...

Simon takes apart the film, from the vantage point of a professional screenwriter, here. And here's a link to Bret Stephens' Wall St...

Russia's dramatic price hike for gas sold to the Ukraine is sending New Year's shock waves across Europe. This is where the "fr...