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From the American Enterprise Institute website : AEI senior fellow Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who joined the Institute in 1978, died yesterday. A...

From Martin Kramer's Sandstorm Cogent arguments can be made for each of these three fixes, but only if you accept the core assumption: t...

Do you know someone who wants to understand the roots of today's conflict in the Middle East? There's no better introduction than Ba...

From The New Republic (ht Foreign Policy Research Institute): The Sunni Arabs of Iraq have much to answer for. Since they have always made ...

From The Chicago Sun-Times : God, I can't go on. I'd rather watch Mia Farrow making out with Mickey Rooney to a Doobie Brothers LP. ...

From 2 Blowhards : ...I'd suggest, the pleasures of self-expression, connecting with other people, and perpetrating some completely-usel...

(Illustration from the Sherlock Holmes Museum, London ) Someone I know, who has a family history of law enforcement (a descendant of county...

I've got some deadlines in the next few weeks, so before the end of the year blogging will be light. Hope to get back up to speed by Jan...

I've been having some problems with my laptop lately, and may have to reboot and reformat the whole thing. So, the blog may be offline f...

From today's NY Times Magazine article by James Traub : Angola is a very, very poor country, but it is also an extremely rich one, for ...

From Opinionjournal.com : As one of those privileged to have studied under Friedman, I felt a special loss at his death but also a sense of ...

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From MichelleMalkin.com : Today, upon news of the death of Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Milton Friedman, Gordon St. Angelo, president and CE...

From Slate : Is it too literal-minded to point out what any viewer of the movie can see for himself—that the crowd at the rodeo stops cheeri...

From his article in The National Interest: Alongside the easy and fast victory over Saddam Hussein, the Bush Administration made a critical...

In case you didn't understand what prime minister Feliks Kulov said in Kyrgyzstan, the president of Kazakhstan also expressed his frustr...

From his Mirror (UK) article, The Man Who Would Not Listen : Is it only five years since the society columns in Washington were describing D...

From the Veteran's Administration Veteran's Day website : A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America Through th...

From Ann Coulter.com So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on...

While the US elections were coming to a head, an attempted coup has been averted in the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan. Face-saving c...