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From Michael Rubin's Middle East Forum article : Rice may echo the President, but by embracing dictators, she has undercut the spirit of...

At Princeton University, channelling the ghost of Woodrow Wilson. Thanks to Roger L Simon for the link to TigerHawk's blog. He was there...

Former Education Secretary, best-selling author, and big-time gambler William Bennett is in trouble for this statement: "If you wante...

Last night we heard music by George Onslow and other Napoleonic-era French composers, performed by the Prima Vista Quartet at the French Em...

All the fuss about Uzbekistan has apparently whetted some people's interest in travellng there. I guess it shows the truth of the public...

Here's a blog I discovered, from a comment on Registan: J. Otto Pohl: An unemployed history Ph.D. living in Arivaca, AZ. .

Here's the AP obituary . The Washington Post obituary pointed out that Sternbach didn't take Valium himself, because it made him dep...

Remember the AIPAC case? It's still going on, and the star witness is set to testify about providing documents to Israel's Washingt...

Karl Rove is Bob Shrum with a good cause. (Shrum has run eight presidential campaigns; number won: 0, number lost: 8.) Bush calls Ro...

Exposed by John Fund in today's Wall Street Journal: After the Washington premiere, Steve Cohen, a writer for the series who was Mrs. Cl...

(Yawn)

Why is Judy Miller's testimony before the grand jury today important? This paragraph from today's AP story tells: Until a few mont...

It's about time that we saw what the heck has been going on at Abu Gharib . How can the US criticize any other country for human righ...

This story is probably not going to help Karen Hughes' efforts to improve America's international image: The gunfight, which left l...

According to Igor Torbakov's article for Eurasianet , Russian pundits say Bush's current democracy-spreading tactics owe something t...

Thanks to our Netflix subscription, last night we watched Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) on DVD. Andrei Zvyagintsev's 2003 drama was memo...

This is what he said about Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Global War on Terror. Not quite Shakespeare, but not too shabby: Today, of course, we ...

From Opinion Journal , comes this analysis of where we are, and where we have to go: Over the horizon looms a referendum to ratify the count...

Speaking of presidential television, my wife really enjoyed Geena Davis as the Hillary Clinton-like first woman president of the USA. I like...

That's not what they called Russian president Vladimir Putin's 3-hour TV call-in show, (they could also have called it "live fr...