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Aleksander Sergeevitch Pushkin's short story: The Snow Storm : (The present translation, by T. Keane, first appeared in The Prose Tales ...

Our blogging buddy Charles Crawford contributes to the newly listed Business and Politics .

It seems that the more Dutch authorities pick on Geert Wilders, the more popular he becomes with the Dutch population, according to Angus Re...

By coincidence, I had just started reading Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797) after seeing a reference to the novel in Michael ...

A sample post from National Review's discussion group about Geert Wilders' court case in Holland , headlined "Western Civilizat...

Heard about the new Country Brand Index rankings on a BBC Radio Four Podcast of Thinking Allowed. And for 2009, the winner is... the United ...

My late cousin, Harvey Fields, worked for Karl Popper as a research assistant for a number of years in the late 70s and early 80s, after a c...

Link here: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6160161n About the Green Berets in Afghanistan. The training doesn't work, the Afghans...

Someone I know sent me a link to this thoughtful analysis by Frank Furedi: No doubt there are many desperate people in Haiti who feel they ...

That's my take-away from Douglas Murray's blog coverage in The Telegraph (UK): There is nothing hyperbolic in stating that a trial w...

Worst mistake, IMHO, the President's line about "unity in diversity." That's the national motto of Indonesia, not the Unit...

Bloomberg has this story with a happy ending. (Full disclosure: I drive a Saab).

From the New Haven Register : I am deeply disturbed by the treatment of Haiyan Bai, a citizen of China hired to teach Chinese at Hamden High...

Over their Haitian relief efforts... From the current issue [free, but registration required] (ht AidWatch): Politicians and the media make...

The Guardian reports : The Church of England has lost £40m from a disastrous investment in a buyout of two vast Manhattan housing complexes,...

From Baseline Scenario (ht Huffington Post): The support for Bernanke in the Senate hangs by a thread – with Harry Reid providing a message...

Watched it last night with someone I know, and we both enjoyed it thoroughly--especially Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse and the rest of the...

Saw this post on my university library blog , and couldn't believe what I was reading... A Sad Farewell to Scientific American Posted: J...

Thank you, Senator-Elect Scott Brown! From The Washington Post : For much of last year, Paul Volcker wandered the country arguing for toughe...

IMHO, "Throw the Bums Out" Which means insiders are in danger, while outsiders have electoral potential, in 2010. Obama could surv...

From BaselineScenario.com : Think of it this way. If the Democrats lose badly in November – as seems likely, with their current weak and un...

From Small Wars Journal (ht Tom Ricks, NPR website): For military personnel assigned to conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster relief...

From today's New York Times: WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has told his military aides not to wear combat fatigues to w...

APPENDIX C Summary of Findings and Recommendations Finding 2.1 DoD programs, policies, processes, and procedures that address identification...

AKA Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service...

From Digital History (University of Houston): Intervention in Haiti Period: 1890-1920 In July 1915, a mob murdered Haiti's seventh pres...

From Relief Web (ht Charles Crawford & chrismcdowell ).

From Gabriella Montell's article in The Chronicle of Higher Education ... Click here for Mike Mandell's original blog post.

Monetary Contributions to Established Relief Agencies are Always the Most Useful Response to Disasters Financial contributions allow profes...

Just in time for the New Year...Maybe they're not really Ghostbusters, but Diplomatic Blogoir Charles Crawford has set up an alternative...

My runner-up: Capt. Chesley Sullenberger... BTW, according to this AP story in The Baltimore Sun, Schuringa is a Dutch screenwriter and film...

All the best in 2010!

Carlton Proctor reports in today's Pensacola News Journal : Funding for the Arts Council of Northwest Florida may be terminated in 2010 ...

From The American: Egor Gaidar, the man to whom Boris Yeltsin entrusted Russia’s free-market revolution, died yesterday. He was 53. Every ti...

Will be on vacation a while longer... Hope to have some new posts in 2010.