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"It isn't quite as inexplicable as Marisa Tomei's Best Supporting Actress Oscar, but it seems pretty close." - Mark Halperin at Time.com, on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

The two words above were the first were heard in my household when my cellphone greeted me, seconds after awakening, with the words: "Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize." Five words that jolted me awake faster that any cup of coffee could. Or maybe even ten cups. If David...

Tomorrow night, the Los Angeles Angels go into this year's first round of the American League playoffs, facing the Boston Red Sox. Mike Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe recalls the days, three decades ago, when the Angels, in their first foray into the AL postseason,...

The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported on the 45 works of art chosen by the First Lady from various government collections to adorn the White House. Loaned art in the Residence • Josef Albers – Homage to the Square: Elected II – Hirshhorn Museum • Josef Albers –...

In 1961, President Kennedy started the Peace Corps from an ambitious idea and a Marshall redux of sorts, an all- American volunteer program with three simple goals: 1) to help people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, 2) to help...

White House renovator: First Lady Pat Nixon pictured with curator Clement Conger, daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower, designer David Richmond Byers III (left, from left to right), and architect Edward Vason Jones (right) in the Green Room in 1971. Much has been written...

Saturday Night Live's cold open did not go unnoticed on the Sunday morning talk shows --- providing the basis of this week's discussion about whether  and/or how much the bloom is off the rose. Like Darrell Hammond with Bill Clinton and Will Ferrell with W ---and last...

Today is the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that founded the White House Fellows program. The Fellowships's White House website describes the program's origins: Declaring that "a genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society," President Lyndon B....

The Powers That Be: the President and Mrs. Obama with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley making their unsuccessful pitch for the '16 Olympics. The Obamas' journey to Copenhagen has produced a narrative more suited to Hans Christian Andersen than to David Axelrod. The...

I usually don't find imitation Top Ten Lists very funny --- but here's a tip o'the cap to Rich Lowry for the one he emailed to "The Corner" at NRO earlier today: Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics 10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings 9. Obama...