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The South Side Inn is at the corner of State and Main Streets in my hometown, New Albany, Indiana, directly across from the town's oldest building - the house constructed by the three Scribner brothers when they arrived in 1813 from (logically enough) Albany, NY,...

Reverend Jeremiah Wright has at least temporarily retired the phrase "chickens coming home to roost" but that's the phrase that comes to mind reading Dan Calabrese's column about Hillary Clinton's performance as a staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee's...

The friends seemed uncharacteristically preoccupied as they idly chatted before ordering their usual Eggs Benedict. When the plates appeared ---literally--- on the table, even though the sight was familiar it was impossible not to admire the artistry involved. The...

William G. Hyland, former deputy national security advisor to President Ford and former editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, died of an aortic aneurysm March 25 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He was 79. Hyland, an expert on U.S.-Soviet relations during the...

A portion of a taped interview I conducted aired on the CBS Early Show Thursday morning explaining my view of the Chinese government’s priorities in dealing with the unrest in Tibet – “Obviously, the main concern of the government is maintaining internal stability and...

C-SPAN has just broadcast the first half of a two hour interview with former CBS newsman Roger Mudd. The occasion is the publication of his memoir The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News. C-SPAN grand poobah Brian Lamb does his usual...

Dith Pran, the translator who survived the killing fields of Cambodia, died earlier today of pancreatic cancer; he was 65. He worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times. He was made internationally famous when the actor who portrayed him (Dr. Haing S. Ngor) in...

Robert Harris's novel The Ghost had considerable success in Britain where it was seen as a very thinly veiled roman a clef. The just-recently-ex PM in the book, Adam Lang, overlaps in almost every way (up to and including the same number of syllables in their names)...

A recent commenter of John Taylor's post on Pat Nixon's visit to the Vietnam war zone also remembers this historic event. In fact, he was one of the helicopter pilots who transported the President and his party in South Vietnam. The following is the account of CW4...

Col. Gene Boyer, middle, escorting Pat Nixon in Vietnam, 1969 Gosh, it would be fun to be an eyewitness sitting in the Clinton War Room today, hearing the Official Explainers duck and dodge the latest round on Mrs. Clinton's "misspeak" of her dangerous arrival in...