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Attention John McCain: Did you know that Georgia still worships Stalin and has a large statue of the dictator on display in Gori? I didn'...

From The American Thinker (ht JihadWatch): Jihadi Dual agenda The world Salafists' ultimate wish is to see the two infidel superpowers ...

From Paul Reynolds' report at BBC World News: There are some clear winners and losers in the conflict over South Ossetia - and the crisi...

Hmm. From today's Wall Street Journal: We should work toward the establishment of an independent, international peacekeeping force in th...

I saw this in today's Johnson's Russia List: #26 Izvestia Auguste 13, 2008 WHEN WE SAY SAAKASHVILI, WE MEAN MCCAIN Republican Party...

A brief mention of the Turkistan Legion over dinner last night led me to a Google search that turned up some surprisingly contemporary rever...

It's time for Barack Obama to use the race issue to his advantage in the 2008 election, by associating himself in the public's mind...

Our Netflix BBC DVD had two Ibsen plays on it, and the other night someone I know and this blogger took a look at the 1971 television adapt...

Looks like Nicholas Sarkozy has done it again. The Moscow Times reports: Sarkozy said Europe was ready to send peacekeepers to Georgia if al...

American pundits have their knickers in a twist about Russia. The Wall Street Journal called Putin Vladimir Bonaparte today while in today&...

From the Moscow Times: Having forcefully reclaimed South Ossetia for its loyal separatist regime, Moscow has sent the strongest possible sig...

From AtLargely.com : Russia's attack on Georgia is illegal and immoral. On that we can all agree. But, because our voice of reason and d...

During the 2000 Presidential contest, George W. Bush repeatedly promised to "restore honor and dignity to the White House." Here&#...

Salon's Glenn Greenwald is looking at FBI "evidence" somewhat critically... The fastest one can drive from Frederick, Maryland...

On Registan.net: As the fighting in South Ossetia heats up, it’s interesting to see the rush by all the bloggers to do the biggest, grandest...

As the VP selection process enters its final days, someone I know made what seems to me to be a very shrewd suggestion--that Barack Obama p...

The journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science wonders if the FBI's handling of the anthrax case may have harme...

I had been meaning to post something about Walter Russell Mead's essay in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs for some time. It is...

Fraser Nelson explains the conflict in The Spectator (UK) : At a recent dinner party in the British embassy in Kabul, one of the guests refe...

Last night someone I know and I watched a 1971 production of Henrik Ibsen's drama, An Enemy of the People, now on Netflix . It was pret...

He's not very impressed by the "evidence" released today : What happened today with this selective document release is akin to...

I received this email from Eleanor Herman, a new Facebook Friend: Hi Everybody! I wanted to remind you of my DC-area book debut on Tuesday,...

Ali Alyami wants the Saudi team banned from the Beijing Olympics, for violation of the Olympic spirit: The Center for Democracy and Human Ri...

Before seeing this video (ht Drudge), I had no idea Paris Hilton was such a serious person... See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and mo...

If news accounts are true , then based on definitions found on a memorandum at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel Website , I...

Richard Spertzel explains his skepticism over recent FBI reports in today's Wall Street Journal : In short, the potential lethality of a...

From a transcript of Sunday's CNN Late Edition interview of Jim Glassman (author of Dow 36,000 ) with Wolf Blitzer : BLITZER: There is ...

The Moscow Times has published a very interesting obituary of the great Russian novelist by Alexander Osipovich : After the 2000 election o...

Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald is tracking the strange death of Ft. Detrick anthrax scientist Bruce Ivins while under survelliance by the F...

Benbo Ritchie was a psychopharmacologist and friend of my father at Albert Einstein Medical College, so I was interested to see his obituary...

( Sergei Luppov, Woman in Black ) Thought I'd share this email with readers: WEBSITE- Savitsky Collection, Nukus Museum, Nukus, Uzbekis...

That what I think the Democratic Presidential candidate has to offer, in contrast to Bush (a reminder of the Adams dynasty) and McCain's...