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A different interpretation of events from Ann Althouse : But I see a way for this awful problem to help Obama. It ties back to the original...

Recent editorial dicsussion of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's media circus/speaking tour of Washington, DC led me to the source--I stumbled int...

At dinner last night, someone said that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has held up the nomination of millionaire Harvard grad, former Washing...

It's beginning to look a lot like 1960s battles are being re-fought in the Democratic Party. Here's an excerpt from Tom Hayden's...

This article by Alan Riding in yesterday's New York Times about Dawn Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy Yasmina Reza's new ...

Bernard Avishai has let me know that he posted some sample chapters from his new book, The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global...

From Desperate Dispatch : A daily Russian newspaper, Argumenty i Fakty, claims many of these states have to tackle their own separatist conf...

A professor of art at Williams College published a very interesting op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterda y, explaining that Aliza Shvar...

> French President Nicholas Sarkozy's tribute to Aimé Césaire: Publié le 17-04-08 à 13:06 Hommage à M. Aimé Césaire, poète françai...

The mother of someone I know sent in this review by Philip E. Bishop from the Orlando Sentinel of "Roots and Branches ," a new sh...

From Wikipedia : The verb "pasàch" (Hebrew: פָּסַח) is first mentioned in the Torah account of the Exodus from Egypt (Exodus 12:23...

Someone told me about this website today: Desperate Dispatch:News Stuck Behind the News . Among other items, it reports this news from ...

(White House Photo) Here's a link to Claire's Papal Visit Blog.

Polly is an "old girl" from a British boarding school attended by someone I know. So we were pleased as punch to learn an online ...

Just read about this in today's Washington Post--after seeing my first one the other day on DC streets and wondering, to someone I know,...

Agustin Blazquez, our favorite Cuban-American documentary filmmaker (also a painter), sent us this item : Please sign and crosspost to ever...

I was in the World Bank "InfoShop" bookstore on Friday and happened upon a copy of Bernard Avishai's new book, The Hebrew Rep...

(ht Drudge) Tibet, Xinjiang, Chechnya, Kosovo...might serve as precedents for the mother of all separatist movements--the "reconquista...

From today's Daily Mail (UK) : A gang of British Muslims planned to blow up seven planes within hours in the biggest terrorist atrocity ...

First read this interesting speech on how to defeat Islamists in The Spectator . Charles Moore recalled Thatcher's victory over another ...