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Evan Thomas is back subtracting from the sum total of human knowledge. A few weeks ago, he declared that nobody in 1966 thought that Richard Nixon would win the 1968 GOP nomination.  In fact, Nixon was already the frontrunner.  Now Thomas has written on what would...

The Associated Press just declared that Sen. Barack Obama has "effectively clinched" the Democratic presidential nomination, based on the wire service's tally of delegates.  Still, Sen. Hillary Clinton presses on. A few hours ago the AP reported that she would concede...

According to Liz Smith's column today: SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie "Bernard and Doris," is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, "It's a...

Over the weekend, former Rep. Bob Barr managed to wrangle the Libertarian  presidential nomination at that party's convention in Denver.  In an earlier post I referred to the traditional contentiousness of the Libertarians, and in their usual tradition it took no less...

Comedian-actor-writer Jerry O'Connell has produced an amusing video that would have been even more amusing with the aid of a stern editor. But it still has its moments. And here it is (with a tip o' the cap to The Big Lead).

Because its author is Brent Bozell and the venue is Townhall.com, some will dismiss this column as conservative boilerplate.But that would be a mistake. Mr. Bozell's quotes from mainstream sources (Jake Tapper of ABC and Marc Ambinder of Atlantic Monthly) show that...

Here's a provocative review of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland from RS's stonezone blog: A new book by Rick Perlstein traces the period between Lyndon Johnson's triumphant 1964 victory in the near universal belief that there was a national Liberal consensus, through the...

Dick Martin, who was Dan Rowan's suave partner, died yesterday in Santa Monica. He was 86. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, created and produced by TV comedy legend George Schlatter, was a phenomenal hit when it premiered in January 1968. It ran until 1973 and it...

Last night I watched ---because it happened to be the most recent arrival from my long and winding Netflix queue---Jean-Luc Goddard’s “missing” 1960 film Le Petit Soldat. The film’s style may be outdated but its subject matter ---torture and patriotism as aspects of...

As President Bush continues to receive criticism about his recent remarks in a speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem, many are taking a fresh look at the personalities and politics of previous generations. Mr. Bush, speaking on a visit to mark the 60th anniversary of the...