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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...

An article today in The Hill starts out describing House Minority Whip Eric Cantor's unsuccessful attempts to schedule some face time with Speaker Pelosi. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) says he has requested to meet privately with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this year,...

Ted Rall has made a cottage industry out of provocative indignation.  That's why his call for the President's resignation was taken with the usual shaker of salt.   We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack...

Bernard Leon Barker, Cuban-born of American parents (and a citizen of both countries since the age of 18, though an exile from the land of his birth for a half-century), died in Miami yesterday at the age of 92. At the age of 24 in December 1941, Barker became the...

Landing on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944: "What chiefly stays in the mind...is the dreadful moment of stepping out into the bullets. Planners anticipated that 20,000 would be killed or wounded in a single day, more than a quarter of all those going ashore.  'Don’t worry if...

President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University Thursday. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...