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From AL.com: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A 22-year old Uzbekistan national, who had been living in Shelby County on an expired student visa, plea...

LUISA MARÍA GÜELL in my decision Her story with her own words and music! This documentary is based on the life and artistic career of t...

Recently received this interesting essay by email: Why International Aid Doesn’t Work By Emil Ruderfer It’s raining development dollars...

Suppprt the Save Undershaw Preservation Trust...

Michael Dirda signing books at the Arts Club of Washington on Feb. 7th, 2012. Enjoyed hearing Michael Dirda speak at the Arts Club of Was...

My film now on Netflix streaming video, according to this site http://streaminginstantly.com/movie/who-shall-live-and-who-shall-die-1982/

This just in... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NEWS RELEASE John F. Walsh United States Attorney, District of Colorado FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...

The memory of the Holocaust has enabled Israel to be a responsible and restrained conqueror. Memory is the key to morality. Rabbi Irving G...

My UCLA film school classmate Don Goodman has a new book, The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink . He is feat...

About the plight of Cuban-American artists: LUISA MARIA GÜELL my decision / mi decisión En español con subtitulos en ingles / Spanish wi...

Sad to learn that Christopher Hitchens has died. I met him twice. The first time, in the last century, in the offices of The Nation magazi...

In an unpublished letter to the editor of the New York Times, dated December 14th: In leveling his criticism of Israel on its domestic agen...

Subject: [ChevyChase] Cultural Revolution Cookbook Monday night, Tenley Library Foodies, Sinologists, and Politicos unite! Come to Monday&...

Coincidentally, my old film now available online in streaming video from EPIX: http://www.epixhd.com/who-shall-live-and-who-shall-die/

(ht cranky professor)

Spent lunch hour today in front of the Cuban Interests Section on 16th Street, NW at a protest with Judy (with megaphone) the wife of host...

Free Alan Gross Vigil Monday, December 5 From 12–1 pm, Adas Israel will lead a vigil in front of the Cuban Interests Section, 2360 16th S...

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They're certainly not bothering President Obama, since there were no protesters at all to be seen in Lafayette Park, in front of the Whi...

(Following is a monologue which Hillel Kook recorded at the bequest of one whose name Kook could not remember when he gave me the tape some ...

I haven't posted anything in a while, yet have been tweeting quite a bit...I wonder if Twitter has somehow blocked the blogger in me? I ...

Featured Articles : Representing Islam, Terrorism, and Violence ; An American Reflection: Steven Spielberg, The Jewish Holocaust and the Isr...

Even in Silicon Valley... According to today's NY Times.

George Orwell described Two Minutes Hate , a daily ritual designed to brainwash the population into hating Emmanuel Goldstein and the curren...

James Taranto skewers Jesse LaGreca in Best of the Web : Behold Jesse LaGreca, who boasts of his working-class street cred while speaking th...