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At least according to The Moscow Times: "We've been here 30 years, and I can't think of a visit that's created this much en...

Just listened to a fascintating debate on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Podcast between author Ed Husain and London Mayor Ken Livingstone ...

She's declaring victory.

Today's Washington Post reports that the Russian Government has shut down Internews--recently re-branded the Educated Media Foundation...

...About David Miliband as UK Foreign Secretary. But not about Gordon Brown's new chief foreign policy advisor, Simon McDonald: So is Br...

The Spokane Spokesman-Review has dropped Randy Cohen's "Ethicist" column after the New York Times and NPR contributor admitti...

From Althouse's blog : It was mostly bland as hell, but there was one point in his interview with Paris Hilton where Larry King puncture...

ABC News reports Tony Blair will be special representative of the "Quartet" (USA, Russia, EU, & UN) to the Middle East. Hope ...

Here's the first iPhone review I've seen, from Glenn Flesichmann in the New York Post. (ht Drudge) It's not too good: It's t...

Speaking of Iran...I caught Camelia Entekhabifard on WYPR's Marc Steiner show , talking about her book Camelia: Save Yourself By Tellin...

From The Guardian (UK) (ht Daniel Pipes): What was Britain hoping to achieve? How did a country under a left-of-centre government expect to ...

From DanielPipes.org : These Islamist threats extend a drama begun on Valentine's Day, 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini issued his death edi...

From Slate (ht lgf): Of course, this is not to say that there isn't a lot of generalized self-pity and self-righteousness (as well as a...

Speculation was published on page one of yesterday's Washington Times, after Blair met with Pope Benedict in Rome . And there's more...

(ht lgf) Running pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel propaganda 24/7 since Alan Johnston's kidnapping hasn't seemed to help the BBC corr...

Speaking to a conference of schoolteachers , the Russian president announced something that sounds like a Russian version of the British Co...

According to an article in the Sunday Express, Gordon Brown is on the verge of naming Environment Minister David Miliband , 41, as UK Forei...

Our late Chicago friend Bob Tashman edited Sir Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories , not as well known as The Satanic Verses ...

From the New York Jewish Press , this article published in connection with a meeting of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies i...

Protesters at the American Library Association convention here in Washington, DC today question the commitment of the organization's le...