Obama stays on ‘message,’ gets boost in ratings amid GOP strife
Jury has options on charges against Huguely
Gingrich: Michigan is do-or-die for Romney
EDITORIAL: A fatal tweet
Romney shows trouble keeping supporters from 2008
Strasburg anticipates season free of doubts
Questions surface on Gingrich campaign travel payments
CARAFANO: Putting national security at risk
Millennials forced to put lives on hold
Violent crime in D.C. surges in 2012
Oscar a perpetual work in progress
STEWARD: Voodoo environomics
Book Reviews
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BOOK REVIEW: 'History of a Pleasure Seeker'
By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times
As the cadence of its title suggests, "History of a Pleasure Seeker" is a picaresque novel in the 18th-century tradition of JohnCleland's "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" and Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones." Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Charles Dickens: A Life'
By Brian Murray - Special to The Washington Times
In 1849, London's Fraser's Magazine had high praise for the author of the recently published "David Copperfield." "There is not a fireside in the Kingdom," proclaimed Fraser's, "where the cunning fellow has not contrived to secure a corner for himself as one of the dearest, and by this time one of the oldest friends of the family." Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Roger Williams'
By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times
This biography should be read with today's headlines in mind. When a president of the United States by fiat demands that a particular church group abandon a centuries-old tenet of its faith to enforce public policy, he is re-enacting - perhaps unwittingly - a drama that unfolded when the Puritan hierarchy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony tried to force its will on dissenter Roger Williams. Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Meaning of Marriage
By Albin Sadar - Special to The Washington Times
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 single-set thriller, "Rear Window," Stella (played by Thelma Ritter) gives wheelchair-bound L.B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) a terse marital message along with his massage. "When two people love each other," she says, "they come together - wham! - like two taxis on Broadway." Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Bible, the School, and the Constitution'
By Gary Bauer - Special to The Washington Times
Those of us disturbed by the secularization of America's schools often point to Supreme Court decisions handed down in the early 1960s as the turning point in the federal government's efforts to expunge faith from public education. Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Journey to the Abyss'
By Stephen Goode - Special to The Washington Times
Harry Kessler began his diary, now a classic of German literature, in June 1880. He had just turned 12 and for the next nearly 60 years, until his death in 1937, he kept at it, turning it into a work of several volumes. The diaries have been best-sellers in Germany for many years, unusual for a book of epic proportions. Published February 15, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW:'William Henry Harrison'
By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Public figures have little control over how they are remembered. Herbert Hoover did not expect to be forever linked to the Great Depression. Richard Nixon never expected to be known as the only president to resign his office. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Living Originalism'
By Robert VerBruggen - Special to The Washington Times
The central tension in American constitutional law for decades has been between originalists and advocates of a "living Constitution." Originalists say the meaning of the Constitution does not change over time - and in order to figure out what the Constitution means, judges and other interpreters should study the time period in which it was enacted and try to ascertain what it meant to the people involved. Published February 13, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Confession'
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
Ian Rutledge, Britain's most haunted detective, is back in another dark and gripping saga linked to the grief of World War I. Charles Todd's latest book is launched when a dying man walks into Rutledge's office at Scotland Yard and confesses to killing his cousin during the war. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Albert: A Life'
By Priscilla S. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Jules Stewart, a former Reuters journalist who has written several histories of Afghanistan, timed his short biography of Prince Albert (1819-1861) for release in December 2011 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the prince's death. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Steve Jobs'
By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times
Walter Isaacson has become the James Boswell of genius. For the past 25 years, Mr. Isaacson has been examining the lives of subjects whose common thread is that they have been judged to have exceptional intellectual abilities that give them unprecedented insight. That last phrase, by the way, is the Wikipedia definition of genius. So there. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Al Qaeda Factor'
By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times
In "The Al Qaeda Factor," Mitchell D. Silber investigates the extent to which al Qaeda's "core" in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region has been involved in organizing terrorist plots against the West since the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'It Was a Long Time Ago, And It Never Happened Anyway'
By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times
Anyone who has paid heed to Russia in the two decades since the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has come to realize that things have not worked out all that well. Those desiring better lives, seeking the freedoms enjoyed by other peoples of the world, threw off the shackles of an authoritarian state that routinely persecuted, imprisoned and murdered its citizens by the millions. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Rome and Rhetoric'
By James Bowman - Special to The Washington Times
First, let's acknowledge that Garry Wills' book-length discussion of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is full of useful information and likely to be an indispensable companion to students of the play in years to come. It collects in one place much of what you need to know about Shakespeare's knowledge of the classical world and, up to a point, offers a useful account of what he was doing with it in the play. Published February 8, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents'
By David Wilezol - Special to The Washington Times
There can be little doubt that Americans today consider the presidency to be the most captivating and meaningful institution in American politics. Creative works devoted to the presidency have enjoyed special popularity in recent years. Published February 7, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Blackhorse Riders'
By Ron Nessen - Special to The Washington Times
This book recounts in great detail - sometimes too much detail - a 1970 battle in Vietnam in which soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry, known as the Blackhorse Regiment, risked their lives to rescue U.S. infantrymen who were surrounded and outnumbered 7-1 by North Vietnamese troops. Published February 6, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Consent of the Networked'
By Nicole Russell - Special to The Washington Times
In the United States, a country that fosters innovation and upholds freedom, it can be difficult to imagine circumstances in which citizens use the Internet as anything but a platform for productivity via sites like Google, Twitter or Facebook. Within the first chapter of "Consent of the Networked," author Rebecca MacKinnon shows that for some parts of the world, however, the Internet provides much more. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Coming Apart'
By Phil Brand - Special to The Washington Times
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case, the picture is a graph. Many graphs, in fact, but all of them depict the same pattern: Two lines start close together in the 1950s, diverge sharply over the decades and end with a gaping chasm between them today. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Forgotten Affairs of Youth'
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
She's back, that verbose Scottish philosopher Isabel Dalhousie who has never been known to use 100 words when 2,000 would do. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Man Within My Head'
By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times
''Greeneland" describes both the seedy locales where Graham Greene set many of his novels and the state of mind of many of his heroes: doubting, undeceived,living in foreign places in an eternal maybe. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
Happening Now
Millennials forced to put lives on hold
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
Nicholas Rastenis has been through the wringer.
Gingrich: Michigan is do-or-die for Romney
By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hinted Sunday that if rival Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ...
3 skiers killed in Wash. avalanche; 4th survived
By Manuel Valdes - Associated Press
Three skiers were killed Sunday when an avalanche swept them about a quarter-mile down an ...
