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Ted Post, 1918-2013 26 Aug 2013 | 03:45 am
Ted Post gave me one of the most thrilling evenings of my life, when I first viewed Go Tell the Spartans -- the film version of Incident at Muc Wa -- at the Franklin Theater in Durham, New Hampshire. ...
half the loaf 24 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
When Mr Obama took office, he went on a world apology tour, vowing to make other nations -- and especially Muslim nations -- love us again. To judge by this demonstrator in Cairo recently, the preside...
On looking over one's shoulder 17 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
Peggy Noonan is always worth reading, but never more than today, when she and Nat Hentoff take on "the surveillance state". She compares today to the 1920s and to the McCarthy era, but I remember two ...
Asylum for the leaker 2 Aug 2013 | 01:59 pm
How delightful! Mr Snowden has been granted asylum in that bastion of human rights, Russia. I hope it works out better for him than it did for the Ford workers who moved to Soviet Russia in the 1930s,...
And get rid of his beret! 31 Jul 2013 | 04:10 pm
What bothers me about Bradley Manning, even more than the fact that he's a traitor to his country, is the beret and the spinach that he wears. Time was when only the Green Berets wore the droopy litt...
Amnesty International in Moscow airport 12 Jul 2013 | 08:15 pm
The comedy of Edward Snowden in the transit area of Moscow airport continues to entertain. He has now met with the Russian representative of Amnesty International in hopes of persuading the country's ...
On shearing the piglet 2 Jul 2013 | 08:41 pm
I know it speaks very badly of me, but I delight in the travails of those self-important "leakers," Julian Assange and Edward Snowden--Mr Snowden especially. When he was in Hong Kong, he explained in ...
Where went the Snowdens of yesteryear? 24 Jun 2013 | 02:09 am
Really, you can't make this stuff up! The infamous "NSA leaker" has fled Hong Kong for the former Soviet Union, evidently with the hope that the Ecuadorian embassy might take him in, a la Julian Assan...
Saint Amanda of Perugia 19 Jun 2013 | 04:44 pm
There has always been a macabre fascination with the case of Amanda Knox, who may or may not have murdered her room-mate in the hilltop town of Perugia. Convicted once, acquitted once, and now wanted ...
Who will protect us from the guardians?! 15 Jun 2013 | 08:05 pm
Rasmussen Reports runs a continuing telephone poll that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves. Among its last week's findings was this: Fifty-seven percent of American voters believe it is like...
