Putin: Is He Bald Enough?

It seems that Russia's hairy pattern of power is set to continue. Only few pundits doubt that Medvedev's recommendation for Vladimir Putin to be Russia's new president leaves space for any viable political alternatives in Russia's 2012 presidential election. If Putin moves back into the Kremlin, …

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Written by Robin Tim Weis on Saturday September 24, 2011

Rob Lowe: Talking ’Bout My Generation

I am a keen consumer of gossip magazines, the trashier and more lurid the better, but I don’t usually bother with celebrity memoirs. Too many of them fall into over-familiar categories: “I Rose, I Flamed Out, Now I’m Back”; “Dropping Names Nobody Remembers”; or the most worthless of them all, …

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Written by Danielle Crittenden on Friday August 5, 2011

Bachmann Claims the Intellectual High Ground

Michelle Bachmann describes herself as having a "strong academic, scholarly background." Michelle Bachmann describes herself as having a "strong academic, scholarly background." (CNN) - Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann defended her past gaffes Tuesday by …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday June 28, 2011

Palin: The GOP's LeBron James?

Each of the GOP’s leading 2012 contenders seems to have a strangely similar counterpart in the sporting world. Back in 1979, my late law professor, Robert Cover, wrote a much-cited piece in the New York Times twining Supreme Court Justices and baseball players.  For example, John Marshall was …

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Written by Alan Hirsch on Friday May 6, 2011