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Sergei Karaganov's "The World Crisis – A Time for Creation" reads a bit like it might have been penned by Henry Kissinger, IM...

From Boot's Blasts: • Our new President is a nice guy. The more he loosens up and relaxes himself - and smiles that huge and friendly an...

This photo on the White House website makes it look like the President is praying for something to turn up... President Obama's Tuesday...

George Will discussed this article from Policy Review in his column today. Her conclusion: THE MINDLESS SHIFT When Friedrich Nietzsche wrot...

From National Review Online: King of the Hill , unlike The Simpsons, has not suffered a creative decline, nor have its ratings plunged. Fox’...

James Marsh's documentary Oscar for Man on a Wire , about Phillip Petit's walk between the Twin Towers... to remind people that once...

According to the LA Times , the Clinton administration's "First Kitty" was 20 years old. He had been taken care of by former ...

TPM Mucraker has posted some photos of Allen Stanford meeting with members of the Congressional Caribbean Caucus at a Washington, DC meeti...

My hopes (not predictions) for tonight: BEST PICTURE: ""Frost/Nixon" BEST ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, "Doubt" BEST ACTOR...

The tremendous news coverage of the Allen Stanford scandal reminded someone I know that after we first saw his large bank buildings next to ...

From The Weekly Standard : The most surprising thing about the recent revelations concerning Bill Moyers is that anyone should be surprised....

From today's Wall Street Journal editorial page : J. Edgar Moyers The TV moralist's government record. One of the darker periods of ...

That's the bottom-line, as far as I can figure it out from yesterday's Brookings Institution coming-out party for Steven Pifer's...

From the Miami Herald: Bill Moyers' Journal, gay-bashing edition Of all the second acts in American public life, none has amazed me more...

A brawl in Beirut shows Hitchens isn't just talk when it comes to confronting evil... From Ace of Spades HQ: (ht Michelle Malkin) Update...

The more you learn about Bill Moyers, the more you wonder how his reputation could get any worse. I often wondered why Jack Valenti gave me...

More here. One of the contestants:

Ann Althouse posted this video of Hillary Clinton with her husband and President Obama, it's too good to pass up... Quickpost this...

Today's New York Times obituary of Leila Hadley by William Grimes (IMHO the best writer on the paper), reads like The Darjeeling Limite...

Another perspective, from Registan.net: “You know what, though?” He said, his voice rising a bit. “People die in war. It sucks, but it has t...

Britain's ban and deportation of Netherlands MP Geert Wilders, on his way to the House of Lords, has led Holland to call for anti-Britis...

From The Telegraph: The arrest and possible prosecution of Rowan Laxton, a Foreign Office diplomat, for railing at the Israeli invasion of G...

Unable to get the catchy tune out of my head after watching the (unauthorized?) Trader Joe's ad posted earlier, by spinning a whole bun...

From WhiteHouse.gov: The Great Emancipator would have been 200 years old today, and President Obama is marking the occasion in several ways....

Just got back from a terrific visit to the Frederick Douglass house in Washington, DC. They are having a birthday party for the first Afri...

(ht Althouse) "Unauthorized commercial for Trader Joe's shot on my Palm Treo before I accidentally ran over it with my car. Please ...

I heard the first part of the Presidential press conference on the radio driving home from work, watched the rest of the Q & A on TV, f...

From The Daily Mail (ht LGF): A high-ranking diplomat at the Foreign Office has been arrested after allegations that he launched a foul-mou...

From the Moscow Times : Just who should "press the reset button," as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden aptly put in Munich on Saturday...

From today's Huffington Post: Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pa...

The other night a raccoon opened the window on our third-floor bathroom to get out of the cold night weather--"thud." When I went ...

I used to own this domain name, but unfortunately never was able to come up the financing to go with it in order to set up my own alternativ...

Not good news . Having just lost the aunt of someone I know, and not so long ago having lost an old friend, all I can say is that my though...

According to the Jerusalem Post (ht Wyman Institute), some four hundred rabbis have asked Yad Vashem to include Peter Bergson (aka Hillel K...

From today's Huffington Post : Capping executive pay at companies that are being bailed out is a good step. But Obama and Geithner can&#...

The shoe-thrower was arrested by British police...

A friend emailed me to ask what I saw at the Inauguration. We were waaaay in the back, behind the Washington Monument, so mostly saw the cro...

In today's Wall Street Journal: Some American pundits and TV anchors didn't seem much different from Al Jazeera in their analysis of...

From today's Huffington Post: It is confirmed that one of the loopholes in the president's anti-torture orders allows the continuanc...

In Lake City for a funeral last Friday, had lunch at Tucker's Restaurant in the historic Blanche Hotel (I recommend the fish fry with ...

This article by Patrick Marting in January 29th's Toronto Globe & Mail about the Gaza crisis reminds us that in war, the first ca...