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Mike McCurry ---who, along with Marlin Fitzwater, is generally considered the gold standard of modern White House Press Secretaries--- has written an interesting piece  ("How My Party Found God") for the Daily Beast about the role faith could play in the Obama...

Russ Smith is a Baltimore resident and occasional contributor to the Wall Street Journal. But once upon a time he was quite a potent figure in the world of "alt-weeklies," founding the Baltimore City Paper in 1977 and a Washington counterpart four years later.  Upon...

Today we learned that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has informed New York Gov. David Paterson that yes, she does want to sit in Sen. Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacated seat on Capitol Hill. Before I get to the touching video clip featured in this post, let me post a...

"Tell me about the loneliness of Good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of Evil?" - Frank Langella as Skeletor (in a line he personally wrote), to Dolph Lundgren in He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe In a comment to my post about the Washington Post's review...

This review by Philip Kennicott takes note of how, as I noted earlier at TNN, Ron Howard's film emphasizes the "giant-killer" theme - though Kennicott emphasizes the similarity to the Shakespearean treatment of history rather than the horror and science-fiction...

Today came word that John Harris, the chief of staff to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich who was arrested on Tuesday with his boss, has resigned his position.  His attorney, Jim Sotos, stated that his client was taking this action "because it was the right thing to do...

Avery Robert Dulles, who was elevated to the Cardinalate in 2001, died this morning in the Jesuit Infirmary at Fordham University Hospital in New York. For the last twenty years he was a Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham.  He was 90. Cardinal Dulles was a...

As President-Elect Barack Obama moves toward the transition finish line, he has been busy putting his cabinet together, collecting what is now routinely referred to as a “team of rivals.” But this may be more than a reference to the fact that he is trying to avoid...

The difference in overall tone between Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon and the film version directed by Ron Howard is noteworthy.  The action of the play, right up to the point where David Frost begins to interview President Nixon, is light in tone, frequently comic,...

POTUSE Obama is very likely planning another top secret Lower Zambudan mission for either or both of the Jesse Jacksons, which would explain why he sent Senator John Kerry on a top secret mission to Poznan. Senator Kerry is now literally as well as figuratively...