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From today's Washington Times editorial : American policymakers would be wise to remember U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, passed ...

No Bronx cheers, this time! According to the Huffington Post, Judge Sonia Sotomayor grew up in the South Bronx. My aunt Lucy lived on Sout...

In today's Huffington Post, Dambisa Moyo obliquely accuses Jeffrey Sachs of racism in his approach to African aid: We also know that th...

From Wikipedia : Memorial Day formerly was observed on May 30. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil Wa...

The BBC reports that Charles Bolden is both a war hero--Naval aviator, Annapolis graduate, trained in Pensacola--and an astronaut...in addi...

The Ft. Worth, Texas piano competition is underway, and being covered by it's own blog, here: http://www.cliburn.org/blog/ There's ...

The intellectuals are Bernard Henri-Levy, Claude Lanzmann, and Elie Wiesel, according to the Huffington Post, which published their manifes...

I never understood why the US and the so-called "international community" insisted that Tsunami aid be funneled to the Tamil Tiger...

Now you can learn percussive secrets of the Pearl of the Antillies, from Agustin Blazquez's latest music video, available on YouTube: Ra...

From DanielPipes.org : Some predictions: (1) Iran being Netanyahu's top priority, he will avoid a crisis by mouthing the words "two...

According to this article on Bloomberg.com , the choice of Rocco Landesman resulted in part from $500,000 in campaign contributions raised b...

TO: The President FROM: LJ RE: Using Stimulus Funds to Bury Power Lines DATE: May 18, 2009 The night before last, a big thunderstorm knocke...

Thanks to an ad on ArtsJournal.com, I found the Van Cliburn Competition live streaming video website. More info: Welcome to the Cliburn Com...

Ali Alyami of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia sent me David Gardner's interesting article about Wahabism in S...

The nomination of Broadway producer Rocco Landesman to head the National Endowment for the Arts... Why? Because Landesman published a contro...

Don't like proposed chances to PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, as announced by Elisabeth Jensen in the NY Times today ...don't like To...

From Registan.net : The Pentagon just announced the surprise replacement of General David McKiernan with Lt. General Stanley A. McChrystal...

Someone I know told me about a stand against vandalism of books that seems to be trendy in museums today, in a blog post called Anecdotal Ev...

Scott Van Voorhis of the Boston Globe says Massachussetts' plea deal is letting Goldman Sachs off too cheaply: Attorney General Martha ...

From the Huffington Post : And, yes, it's not fun feeling like Cassandra. But remember: Cassandra turned out to be right and the cheerle...

Even though Journal editors appear to be pulling their punches somewhat, today's Wall Street Journal editorial calls for the resignation...

The director of White House Military Affairs has resigned in the aftermath of the NYC Air Force One flyover fiasco. I can't remember Bu...

From FOIABlog : Last fall, journalist Laurence Jarvik sued the CIA for a second time (his first suit revolved around a fee waiver). The CIA...

Wikipedia has the story, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day .

From Ideoblog: Friedman says he wasn’t involved in the Fed's decision to give AIG an $85 billion bailout, part of which was used to repa...

I couldn't find this in the news articles on the web, so downloaded the text of HCR 100 from the Hawaiian Capitol webpage to read it w...

From reading Simon Johnson's BaselineScenario blog today it looks like Goldman Sachs' man at the NY Federal Reserve may be guilty o...

Our hosts in Chicago screened Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room while we were visiting. I had heard about this 2005 fi...

Perhaps because it represents an Afghan tilt towards Russia, and away from the United States (which has been "distancing" itself f...

Walking down Dearborn on our way from the Chicago Historical Society to lunch at the Arts Club of Chicago--after a bitter disappointment in ...

Saint-Gaudens' Abraham Lincoln: From the entrance arch to the Chicago Stockyards in the Historical Society Cafe: And a sign of the times:

At the opening of his new show in Chicago, last Sunday, in front of his Sunflowers in a Talavera Pot and Fresh Pasta with Parmesan :

From DanielPipes.org : On the other hand, he (along with his AIPAC colleague Keith Weissman) stood accused by the Bush administration of bre...

From today's Huffington Post : The reason is, the banks are using this time to negotiate how much information about their portfolios the...

From today's Huffington Post : Just this week, the bankers and their lobbyists -- who you might have reasonably thought would be the pol...

This entry from the Encyclopedia of Chicago tells the story of the Haymarket riots that led to an international socialist holiday : On May 1...

Our Chicago painter friend Carl Holzman shows his latest still life paintings at the Old Town Triangle Gallery, opening Sunday, May 3rd in C...