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As Tony the Tiger used to say, "It's g-r-r-r-r-eat!" You can watch online at http://www.cliburn.tv/client.aspx . Or YouTube ha...

From the Financial Times Arena blog : Of course aid corrupts. The evidence is there, from Congo to Kenya. And who can doubt that most aid to...

Writes Stephen Waldman on Beliefnet.org (ht Huffington Post). He quotes this email from Bill Donahue, head of the Catholic League for Relig...

Blogger John Lester found a post written by yours truly four years ago about a tour of Mosfilm movie studios , and linked to it on his Russ...

From the National Academy of Public Administration's Open Government Dialog (ht FOIABlog): To Make FOIA Work, Costs of Non-Disclosure M...

Maureen Fan's memoir, in today's Washington Post style section makes for interesting reading: I come from a family of architects, ...

From today's Washington Times editorial : American policymakers would be wise to remember U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, passed ...

No Bronx cheers, this time! According to the Huffington Post, Judge Sonia Sotomayor grew up in the South Bronx. My aunt Lucy lived on Sout...

In today's Huffington Post, Dambisa Moyo obliquely accuses Jeffrey Sachs of racism in his approach to African aid: We also know that th...

From Wikipedia : Memorial Day formerly was observed on May 30. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil Wa...

The BBC reports that Charles Bolden is both a war hero--Naval aviator, Annapolis graduate, trained in Pensacola--and an astronaut...in addi...

The Ft. Worth, Texas piano competition is underway, and being covered by it's own blog, here: http://www.cliburn.org/blog/ There's ...

The intellectuals are Bernard Henri-Levy, Claude Lanzmann, and Elie Wiesel, according to the Huffington Post, which published their manifes...

I never understood why the US and the so-called "international community" insisted that Tsunami aid be funneled to the Tamil Tiger...

Now you can learn percussive secrets of the Pearl of the Antillies, from Agustin Blazquez's latest music video, available on YouTube: Ra...

From DanielPipes.org : Some predictions: (1) Iran being Netanyahu's top priority, he will avoid a crisis by mouthing the words "two...

According to this article on Bloomberg.com , the choice of Rocco Landesman resulted in part from $500,000 in campaign contributions raised b...

TO: The President FROM: LJ RE: Using Stimulus Funds to Bury Power Lines DATE: May 18, 2009 The night before last, a big thunderstorm knocke...

Thanks to an ad on ArtsJournal.com, I found the Van Cliburn Competition live streaming video website. More info: Welcome to the Cliburn Com...

Ali Alyami of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia sent me David Gardner's interesting article about Wahabism in S...