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USA Today favors Florida over UCLA. I don't know enough about basketball to have an opinion. But I'm a Bruin alumnus, and the famil...

Our friend Agustin Blazquez just released his new movie: RUMBERAS CUBANAS/ CUBAN RUMBA QUEENS directed & edited by Agustin Blazquez prod...

David Paulin blogs that one underreported angle of the Jill Carroll story is about Big Media exploitation of freelance writers (ht LGF): Th...

I missed Pollyanna on Masterpiece Theatre , when it aired in 2004 and 2005. But I caught it last night, and it really was a masterpiece... I...

Today's Washington Post runs reporter Peter Finn's account of Russia's fear of a new Cold War , sparked by comments from Preside...

Her written statement retracting earlier videotaped statements, in The Christian Science Monitor : During my last night in captivity, my cap...

The French call April 1 Poisson d'Avril, or "April Fish." French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of th...

That seems to be the $64,000 question these days, as US-Russian tensions appear to be growing. At last as far as Central Asia goes, there...

A statement by Christian Science Monitor editor Richard Bergenheim : I hope you'll pause with me also to think of Allan Enwiyah, Jill...

If this report from Middle East Online is true, what Jill Carroll told Arab audiences sounds different from what she is telling the America...

From Opinion Journal .

Was a ransom paid, or other deal made, for her release? This news story doesn't say.

My apologies, but due to having to take care of some personal business, I'm not able to blog quite as much as before. I'd like to po...

Via Benador Associates: You reap what you sow. What is happening in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) is precisely what we bought on to when we acti...

Via SteynOnline : Unfortunately, what's "precious and sacred" to Islam is its institutional contempt for others. In his book ...

After watching Syriana this afternoon, through a link on Wikipedia I found Amir Taheri's review of the film at Benador Associate's...

Ukrainian websites report that US Ambassador John Herbst has been promoted to head the Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization at Foggy ...

On MichelleMalkin.com.

Her LA Times Op-Ed reads like she's channelling Samuel Huntington (though his name is never mentioned): In the long term, the future o...

Konstantin's Russian Blog paints a different portrait of the president of Belarus and his opposition: 1. Opposition in Belorus has noth...