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Today's Wall Street Journal has an interesting op-ed about problems with American intelligence reports on Iraq: But this brutal drawn-o...

Not too long ago, driving in my car, I heard a soothing British voice that sounded much like Tony Blair's on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi call...

From The National Interest : As I have written in The National Interest, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed U.S.-Russian co...

Here, in PDF format(ht LGF). An excerpt: We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; per...

Former President Clinton's mention of the centrality of Uzbekistan to his plans in fighting Osama Bin Laden leapt from this trasncript o...

Someone I know sent me this very funny cat massage video from You Tube...

It seems like Michelle Malkin has uncovered a scandal involving terrorists associated with the Associated Press's photographer Bilal Hu...

Time Magazine's legendary art critic tells how he got his job: First, however, I had my trial run in Manhattan. AT Baker proved to be a...

Watched this Michael Cacoyannis drama last night. It is depressing, yet starkly brilliant. The cast was unknown to me, but probably well-kno...

The Australian has run the best article so far on Robert Hughes' Agustinian-sounding memoir, Things I Didn't Know : Five years l...

Tony Blair is lobbying Vladimir Putin to leave British-Dutch Shell Oil alone, in what is turning into an ugly business dispute over Sakhali...

According to Wikipedia, the month-long fast of Ramadan begins September 24th in Saudi Arabia and a day later elsewhere, ending October 23rd...

After Home Secretary John Reid's speech : Whether this tentative throwing down of the cultural gauntlet in the face of creeping Islamisa...

From the British Prime Minister's Rosh Hashonah column in the Jerusalem Post: As the latest report on anti-Semitism illustrates, the Jew...

Last night, on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer , Paul Solman hosted an interesting debate between economists William Easterly and Jeffrey S...

It's monarchic networks, stupid! As Shawn W Crispin explains in his article on events in Bangkok for The Asia Times Online : The mainstr...

Martin Kramer argues that Islamism is a form of clerical fascism : Any student of my generation first would have encountered the comparison ...

Hollywood screenwriter, fellow UCLA alumnus, and former teaching assistant to Professor Howard Suber (author of The Power of Film ), Jeffers...

I just found this website that serves as a gateway to banned blogs by following a link on my sitemeter hits counter. Somewhere in the world,...

From the Jerusalem Post blog (ht Daniel Pipes): The question as to whether or not the Pope should have apologized is beside the point - it...