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In einem Bächlein helle, da schoß in froher Eil Die launische Forelle vorüber wie ein Pfeil. Ich stand an dem Gestade und sah in süßer Ruh Des muntern Fischleins Bade…

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Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when…

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Brooklyn real estate mogul Isaac Robert Toussie “scammed hundreds of poor, minority homebuyers” and got caught. He copped a guilty plea to defrauding the Department of Housing and Urban Development…

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Here’s a recommendation for No Comment readers who got the ultimate gift for the holidays—that would, of course, be a gift certificate from a book store, or a new Sony…

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Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb, Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment, There He hath made Himself to His intent Weak enough, now into the world to come; But O, for…

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Pender de un leño, traspasado el pecho, y de espinas clavadas ambas sienes, dar tus mortales penas en rehenes de nuestra gloria, bien fue heroico hecho; pero más fue nacer…

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Why has Dick Cheney been on the press circuit for a week, bragging about his involvement in waterboarding suspect terrorists, snooping into the correspondence and phone calls of millions of…

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The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section may well stand as a sort of icon for the Bush Administration. On the surface, it promises to uphold the integrity of the nation’s…

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To what extent is the Wall Street meltdown that started in September 2008 really a consequence of the policies and actions of George W. Bush? Jo Becker, Gay Stolberg and…

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Michael Connell was well-known to those who follow the “black box” voting drama. A voting technology expert from Akron, Ohio, Connell faithfully served the Republican Party, and in particular its…

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata BWV 63, “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag,” was composed for an initial performance on Christmas Day 1714 or 1715. Here a 1995 performance by the New London…

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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than…

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It is instructive to watch Major Matthew Alexander and Federalist Society kingpin David Rivkin discuss the torture issue on the Riz Khan Show: We’ve seen this scenario played out several…

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Des divers ouvrages que j’avois sur le chantier, celui que je méditois depuis longtems, dont je m’occupois avec le plus de gout, auquel je voulois travailler toute ma vie, et…

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Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, John Dean, makes the case for prosecuting Dick Cheney for his role in torturing prisoners in the war on terror in an appearance on MSNBC’s…

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The Bush Administration’s swan song consists of a series of increasingly absurd claims designed to cover its crimes and failings. The most persistent of these is the claim that torture…

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At 5:15 p.m. on June 7, 2006, two American F-16 fighters dropped 500-pound bombs on a farmhouse about five miles north of the Iraqi town of Baqubah. Within an hour,…

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Today the newspaper of record provides us with 1237 words of reporting and analysis focusing on the Levin-McCain report. It notes the painfully obvious: this report is tantamount to a…

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Senator Carl Levin, chair of the Armed Services Committee, oversaw an 18-month long investigation into the Bush Administration’s torture policy that conclusively established that the abuse of prisoners at Abu…

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“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.” –Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)…

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Did Cheney Confess to a Felony? It looks that way to me. In an interview conducted with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl yesterday, Vice President Cheney was probed on his role…

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Is the famous shoe-throwing journalist of Baghdad now a torture victim? George W. Bush’s triumphal visit to Baghdad turned out to be something closer to theater of the absurd. The…

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How often in our nation’s history has a Congressional Committee published a report which concludes that the President is essentially guilty of war crimes? Only once. It happened last week…

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As a child, senior career Justice Department lawyer Thomas M. Tamm, who hails from a family of career federal law enforcement professionals, played under the desk of J. Edgar Hoover.…

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Ever since the election, and indeed starting from early October when it became clear that 2008 would be an anti-Republican blowout, the Beltway bloviators have focused their speculation on one…

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For the third Sunday in Advent, enjoy this performance of the Cantata “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben,” BWV 147, in a performance at the Benedictine Monastery of Melk…

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President George W. Bush has launched “Operation Legacy,” which he placed in the hands of his ultimate advisor, indeed his “brain,” Karl Rove. Remember Rove? He’s the man who refused…

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