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  Ever since Easter Monday 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to children for an egg roll, the White House has observed this springtime tradition. The Washington Times' Mark Silva reported on plans for this year's event: Now they've thought...

  The President and First Lady leave St. John's Church after Easter Sunday services this morning. The First Family attended Easter Sunday services at St. John's Episcopal Church ---"the President's ---and Presidents'--- church"--- just across the street (and over...

 Bo, the FPOTUS (First Pooch Of The United States), is clearly going to thrive in Washington --- he already has his own White House website. The hypoallergenic puppy is already a savvy pol --- having covered bases from the Kennedys to the animal shelter advocates (via...

Last month I wrote about a recent appearance that Ed Nixon, the younger brother of the 37th President, made to promote his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait, during which he described how the sight of Meteor Crater in Arizona, in the course of a trip he made with...

At the website of the magazine Foreign Policy, David J. Rothkopf, a Washington-based consultant and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written about "Five Books That Haven't Been Written Yet" (but, he continues, "ought to be")....

My wife and I have five wonderful grandchildren – four boys and a girl. We await the arrival of another grandson in a few weeks. Dealing with our children’s children is vastly different than what it was like raising our own – especially in the area of discipline. As...

This week, unsurprisingly given the area's strongly liberal electorate, Cook County (Illinois) Commissioner Mike Quigley defeated GOP nominee Rosanna Pulido, by a 69-to-24 percent difference, and was elected to the Fifth Congressional District seat that Rahm Emanuel...

Today's Daily Telegraph runs a photo gallery of Queen Elizabeth with every POTUS who served during her reign (with the exception of LBJ). RN with EIIR at Chequers on 3 October 1970

Politico's Ben Smith reports an anonymous White House staffer's explanation for President Obama's controversial "bow" to Saudi King Abdullah: "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah." Nuff said?  Works for me, but no...

I'm still working on getting a copy of Michael Kimmage's The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (which I noted in an earlier post) and hope to review it before the end of the month. In the meantime, it's worth...