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So far as I know, Britney Spears has yet to officially respond regarding her fleeting appearance in the McCain campaign's "Celebrity" ad.  But Paris Hilton has now spoken. And did she ever speak.  Larry King's appearance in her video leads me to think that guessing...

Peter Rodman, a foreign policy expert who served every Republican president from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, including as an assistant secretary of defense for nearly six years in the current administration, died Saturday in Baltimore. He was 64. The cause was...

For all the conflicting criticism (of the constructive kind of course), critical analysis, and unsolicited advice that we have been offering (and will undoubtedly will continue to offer) in such abundance, here at last is something on which all of us agree.

I considered posting this under the headline "You Couldn't Make This Up" but decided go to with the above. Wonkette supplies her own inimitable tone.

Last week Robert Novak, for decades one of Washington's leading journalists, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and announced that he was suspending his syndicated column.  Today Novak stated that his health situation is "dire," and that he is to receive chemotherapy...

Don Rumsfeld has issued a statement on the death of his ---and our--- friend and colleague Peter Rodman. Peter Rodman (1943-2008) Peter Rodman was a dedicated public servant, an incisive strategist, a consummate diplomat, a serious pupil of history and a measured...

R.E.M.'s Letterman debut, about which Father Taylor has inquired, was made in 1983 --- several years before my arrival on the scene. I began working at Late Night with David Letterman in 1987. On my first day I experienced a baptism by fire by being told to report to...

Recently, I was able to remodel a room in my house as sort of a study. After many months, I was finally able to retrieve the many boxes of books that I had in my library in San Diego. Paramount among these books was my library on everything Richard Nixon. Along with...

The Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and The Nixon Center are pleased to announce a new Commission on United States Policy toward Russia. The commission will be co-chaired by former Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) and Senator Chuck Hagel...

Both in Alaska and on Capitol Hill there has been remarkably little gloating ---much less rejoicing--- over Ted Stevens' current problems and apparently impending downfall. Even NPR's reporting has been as much in sorrow as in anger. Ted Stevens has been around this...