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We're going on holiday...so won't be reading the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008"--which after watching Secr...

And I'm on the panel discussing the film on Friday, believe it or not. Here's the press release: Vladimir Sinelnikov will present Wo...

No links today, this is my own thought. Obama must show that he is not part of the bipartisan establishment consensus in Washington that got...

From today's NY Times Book Review : One or two of his chapters can be described as almost an interior monologue or stream of consciousne...

From Slate : The very name Pakistan inscribes the nature of the problem. It is not a real country or nation but an acronym devised in the 19...

Discussing a controversy over photographs of dead French troops published in Paris Match , in a column from Gulf News : First, the Taliban&...

Last weekend, someone I know and this blogger visited Eastern State Penitentiary in Philaldelphia, Pennsylvania --not for the "Terror ...

It's a month of prayer and fasting. Wikipedia has the full story of the holiday, here.

A little bird told me that Wired magazine will run an article on Parag Khanna , author of . Like Fareed Zakaria, Khanna is a former insider ...

Wired Magazine's New York Editor (and my college roommate at UC Berkeley--go Bears!) has a blog called Haunted Screens . No, it's no...

Attention all Wall Street Moguls. The site is real! It exists! Here's the link: http://governmentbailout.com If only Lehman Brothers had...

Speaking of international crises, using clips from a BBC radio interview with Foreign Secretary David Milliband, Russia Today puts its own s...

On Russia Today, Russia's version of the Voice of America, Putin told a French journalist from Le Figaro that he blames the US for the G...

His new book, Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism is in American bookstores, and BHL is on a book tour of the USA. Last n...

Leon Aron's New Republic article reminded this reader of Lynne Cheney's failed attempt to standardize a pro-American History curric...

The Daily Mail (UK) today has an account of a telephone conversation between British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Russian Foreign M...

Thanks to a notice from a Facebook friend, I learned about this new museum-- The Art Museum of Tunis: Chers Amis des arts, L’idée de créer u...

In today's colum n, Ann says the President is like Gary Cooper in High Noon: George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western "Hig...

Today's Washington Post runs a story alleging that Cindy McCain broke federal drug laws , reportedly committing fraud to feed her addict...