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While visiting a friend in the hospital with pancreatic cancer, his surgeon mentioned this website for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network....

In his latest column, George F. Will explains why it is significant that Senator John McCain not only co-sponsored the troubling McCain-Fein...

Writing in The American Thinker , Bookworm says J.K. Rowling's story has a message for adults in a post-9/11 world: I don’t pretend to k...

Konstantin's Russian Blog reacts to Dick Cheney's declaration of a new Cold War in Vilnius: What do we learn from such verbal maneu...

Here's an account of her Harvard talk, via Little Green Footballs: Her voice broke at one point when she reflected on her relationship w...

Daniel Pipes arguest that bombing Iran may be too risky, but so is doing nothing. He suggests a third way to deter Iran: But is there a thir...

Yesterday, I went to the book party for James Bowman's new book, HONOR: A History. It certainly was honorable of Jim, who I have not se...

That's what they're calling scandal swirling around Porter Goss's departure from the CIA, Down Under. From The Australian: ALL t...

Interviewed by Vitaly Tretyakov of the Moscow News, via Johnson's Russia List. Some excerpts: Vitaly Tretyakov: Aleksandr Isayevich, wha...

At Harvard University, on May 9th. (ht LGF)

Accordning to a report in the Navhind Times, some 9,000 ethnic Karen refugees from camps on the Thai-Burmese border may soon be on their wa...

According to the not always reliable Debka Report , more than poker parties at the Watergate are involved: Indeed, DEBKAfile’s intelligence...

In today's Washington Post , a staff writer takes a look at American strategy in Iraq: "In war, we have to win," said Gen. Vo ...

While driving in the car yesterday, I heard a fascinating interview with Shakeb Issar, Shaima Rezayee's VJ co-host on Tolo TV, who now i...

In Astana, Kazakhstan: Q Yes, Matt Spetalnick, with Reuters. Mr. Vice President, the Kremlin has dismissed your criticism of Russia's re...

War and Piece has a lot of information and theories about Porter Goss's sudden departure from the CIA. IMHO, it looks clumsy from the o...

From a very interesting post at Winds of Change : Joe's posts about white guilt and shame brought to mind several instances of contact b...

Someone we know pointed out that since the Massaoui verdict, there is now a precedent for 9/11 prosecutions that leads directly to FBI agent...

There's more on Mexico's national holiday here : In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 i...

Kommersant compared Cheney's Vilnius remarks to Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri: Until yest...