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From the American Thinker: In the end, the speech shows that the War of Ideas is the ultimate battlefield in the War on Terror. This is why,...

Contrary to White House claims that Bin Laden is "irrelevant," the new video shows that he is all too relevant six years after 9/1...

Terrible news from Uzbekistan, according to Registan.net . Mark Weil, the impressario behind the Ilkhom Theatre, has been stabbed to death i...

I knew Peter years ago in Los Angeles, when he was working as a film critic for the defunct Herald-Examiner and Los Angeles Magazine. I ofte...

In memoriam, here's a clip of Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma" from YouTube:

The former Secretary of State's 10 maxims to guide American foreign policy have been published in The National Interest: What I suggest ...

Thanks to an email from a friend in Hollywood, I've learned that Netflix now carries WHO SHALL LIVE AND WHO SHALL DIE? My distributor t...

Profiled in today's Washington Post Style section by Jose Antonio Vargas under the headline: "The Most Feared Man on the Hill?&quo...

From Wikipedia: A recurring Labor Day event in the United States, since 1966, is the annual telethon of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, ...

I think I found the company that makes the automatic music score device spotted on From the Top last night: MuseBook . You can buy one onl...

Is Ken Burns fubar? According to today's Washington Post, the latest controversy swirls over four-letter words in his 14 1/2-hour PBS do...

Last night, our local PBS station aired a marathon broadcast of From the Top , a show in which young people perform classical music. I enjoy...

Yesterday I stumbled accross Ed Koch's attack on Rudy Giuliani in a local bookstore. I thumbed through the large print of Giuliani: Nast...

Speaking of anti-communists, I hope readers had a chance to watch PBS' broadcast of the BBC documentary Nureyev: The Russian Years last...

Agustin Blazquez sent us this op-ed by Humberto Fontnova , author of Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him , c...

Another parallel comes to mind, between the predicaments of Republican Sen. Larry Craig and Democratic LBJ aide Walter Jenkins, the Karl Rov...

The departure of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General recalled the saga of former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell in the Clinton ...

From the Moscow Times (ht Johnson's Russia List): Now Moscow's bitter disappointment with the West has taken the form of harsh anti...

Here's who I would like to see President Bush nominate for Attorney General of the United States: John Danforth. The former Ambassador t...

In the Washington Post today , De Waal and co-author Julie Flint say the real problem in Darfur is "anarchy:" While the script of ...