BUSH AND THE BASE DEBATE: DEMS NEED A BETTER RESPONSE

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RON ASMUS HAS AN INTERESTING OP-ED IN THE WASHINGTON POST today. Early in his article, he writes: The president proposes something that generations of U.S. diplomats and soldiers fought to prevent and that our adversaries sought unsuccessfully to achieve: radical reduction of U.S. political and military influence on the European and Asian continents.

TRENDS IN THINK TANKS — LOU DOBBS REPORTS

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CNN’S LOU DOBBS IS REPORTING ON THINK TANKS each night this week. He is looking at which tanks are most influential and why — as well as looking at the question of whether non-transparent funding is inappropriately using think tanks to push various agendas. His show is called “Thought Leaders.

NEOCON CIVIL WAR? DEBATING “THE NATIONAL INTEREST”

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“THE NEOCONSERVATIVE MOMENT” BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA is an important new essay in the latest edition of The National Interest. The link only provides an excerpt — but a subscription to this magazine is a cheap price to pay to read what may be the beginnings of a civil war among neoconservatives.

JOSH MARSHALL ON JOURNALISTIC ETHICS & VALERIE PLAME

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JOSH MARSHALL DOES NOT NEED REFERRALS from my site. I owe him a great deal for giving the world some notice of what I’ve been doing. That said, I really like his post today exploring the ethics of journalistic discretion about sources.