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Jennie Eisenhower, the actress who is the great-granddaughter of the 34th President and granddaughter of the 37th (and the daughter of David and Julie Eisehower), is the subject of an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by that paper's theater critic Howard Shapiro....

On Wednesday night's broadcast of the Colbert Report from Camp Victory in Baghdad, Steven Colbert interviewed  Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh.  The Deputy PM's academic training was in the UK; he spent some time in Washington as spokesman for the Patriotic...

Here's a troubling and intriguing story that might otherwise have been buried on the back pages, little noticed, and soon forgotten. But these are the still the early days of an administration that both claims and proclaims the moral high ground, so this apparently...

There has been a great deal of talk that the GOP lacks a "main person" who speaks for it. (Google the words "leaderless" and "Republican" and you get more than 30,000 hits.) Whatever the party's troubles, the lack of a "main person" is not one of them. The United...

Lebisch: Rabbi! May I ask you a question?Rabbi: Certainly, Lebisch! Lebisch: Is there a proper blessing... for the Tsar? Rabbi: A blessing for the Tsar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Tsar... far away from us! Why is it that so many Americans are enamored of...

Happy Anniversary to Tricia and Ed.      

The poobahs at One Times Square were understandably wary when the Daily Show's Jason Jones came a-calling. But even taking that into account they seem every bit as bland, bleached, and beached, as their daily product.

A few days ago Edward Luce, the Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times, treated the readers of that eminent newspaper to an account of his lunch with Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward at the Hay-Adams Hotel in DC. (The menu and price of the meal are...

This week the Colbert Report is broadcasting from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad.  Last night's first show is worth watching.   A highlight is the interview with General Ray Odierno, the Commanding General of the Multi-National Force--Iraq, and the amusing...

In today's WaPo, Richard Leiby    "Just the Sport for A Leader Most Driven" describes the President's Sunday afternoon: Although far better known as a hoops man, President Obama seems to be morphing into a golf nut these days. He's hit the course five times since late...