The alignment of high-dollar donations with Trump's pick of Aldona Wos as ambassador was first reported by Salon

The journalist accuses writer Tony Judt of fabricating a father-son dialogue. The son responds

As the right denounces campus protests and political correctness, it hypocritically squashes anti-Trump voices

Or: How the guy who was supposed to be his party's savior got humiliated by ... Herman Cain

Flip Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" into the VCR after dozing through Stanley Kubrick's valedictory and it registers like the shock pads on failed hearts in medical shows -- suddenly, you can feel again.

Plastic trash kills sea animals, contaminates the environment — and it's gross

Cheney does a bad Churchill imitation. Plus: Hitchens' Kissinger isn't any better.

"We wouldn't be meeting tonight if we weren't making plans to move forward in a real way"

Chris Christie is spending on national TV ads in mid-summer, just to keep his name in the mix. Such is the price

Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet are both former Washington bureau chiefs. What ugly habits did they pick up there?

In which we offer up sacrificial e-mail addresses and are spurned by the bulk e-mailing gods.

Yesterday I was a Leo. Today I'm a Cancer. All thanks to (unwelcome) scientific research in Minnesota

An old conservative favorite came out on top at the conference, while attendees were more than a little skeptical of President Obama.

Powell denies calling Cheney & Co. "f--ing crazies," P.Diddy saddened by child support suit, and what's all this about J.Lo and a faith healer?

Ron Paul wins at the conservative confab. Mitt Romney comes in second -- and Sarah Palin a distant third