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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...

At the Huffington Post, blogger Jayne Lyn Stahl writes:  "You'll recall, too, that Barry Goldwater was a staunch supporter of Richard Nixon in his bid for the White House against John F. Kennedy in 1960." Well, that depends on what the meaning of the word "staunch"...

Today in io9.com, the science-fiction blog which is part of the Gawker.com online group, Alasdair Wilkins takes a look at comic books, movies, science-fiction novels, and TV shows over the last half-century which have speculated on who might be sitting in the White...

The bow heard round the world: Of course President Obama is a tall man with superb posture.  From his height a normal upper torso tilt of recognition ---and, yes, respect--- can look like a borderline obeisance.   And before the dudgeon about Mr. Obama kowtowing to...

You no longer have to read about Prince Philip's propensity to put his Lobb-shod foot in his mouth.  You can actually see and hear him in action at his first meeting yesterday morning with what the British press is now calling "the coolest couple on earth." On the...

Frank Gehry ---he of the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Disney Music Hall in LA, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle (not to mention the armchairs made of cardboard packing crates)--- has been selected to design the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. Congress...

Worldly seventh grade public, private and home school students will be honored at an award ceremony April 7 in the White House East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. Keynote speaker will be Janet Evans, four-time Olympic gold medal winner in swimming. An...

Quentin Letts is a columnist for the Daily Mail.  He cut his teeth as the Telegraph's Peterborough, and has been The Times' New York correspondent. Much of what he writes is calculatedly over the top (think: Maureen Dowd but without the labored Shakespeare...