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(photo from The Newshour with Jim Lehrer /PBS) Alice Goldfarb Marquis died while I was out of town and offline. Alice had been a good frie...

...for turning in my manuscript, so won't be blogging much until it's finished. Please stand by...

Heard about this story on WTOP radio in the car a few minutes ago, apparently happened just before 1 pm today...3 reported hurt: 2 shot, gu...

Someone I know sent me Tom Vanderbilt's article in Slate about the decline in American train travel: There is at least one technology i...

The UK Independence Party. Never heard of them? They're anti-EU. Anti-immigration. Libertarian. Winston Churchill is their mascot. Just...

IMHO, at any rate, because you get a practical takeaway in driving improvement, in addition to a sort of "Death Race 2000" virtua...

The winners have been announced in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition. It's a tie for the gold medal, my favorite pianist made it all t...

Today's the last day of the 2009 Cliburn Piano Competition, and you can watch it online here: www.cliburn.tv/client.aspx Here's the ...

According to today's Wall Street Journal, it was 31-year old Benjamin Rhodes . The speech was drafted by Ben Rhodes, a 31-year-old White...

Real Clear Arts: Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture has the scoop (ht ArtsJournal): As I predicted here on May 14, President Obama has nominat...

IMHO, Gary Bauer's call for President Obama to denounce the murder of US Army recruiter William Long in Little Rock, Arkansas might ha...

You can watch it here: http://www.cliburn.tv/client.aspx . The six finalists are (in alphabetical order): Mr. Evgeni Bozhanov, 25 (Bulgaria...

In The American Thinker , he suggests this text: I have offered you America's outstretched hand. In doing so I have followed a path blaz...

From Newsweek International (ht MESHnet): Given the intransigence of Mubarak's regime, the United States would receive the best return ...

Sincere condolences to the families affected by the tragic disappearance of Air France 447 en route from Rio to Paris. The mystery brings to...

From AmilImani.com : Unfortunately, there are about one and a half billion people deeply entrenched in many democracies, including the Unite...

From FamilySecurityMatters.org : Autocratic Arab regimes as well as their supporters and financial beneficiaries in the West and elsewhere, ...

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...