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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...

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...