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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...

The last week saw the passing of a man and a woman who were both not only important figures at the Nixon White House, but by any measure significant in twentieth-century American history.  On July 23, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of...

Chinese authorities promised to relax internet controls as one of the conditions negotiated with the International Olympic Committee. However, over time, that commitment has been slowly eroded as the Olympics got closer. Chinese authorities later stated that internet...