Yesterday evening, the New America Foundation‘s American Strategy Program organized a thoughtful session debating the future of American strategy vis-a-vis China. The participants were Jim Pinkerton, Michael Lind, Sherle Schwenninger, Ted Halstead, Barry Lynn, Jennifer Buntman, Robert Wright, and myself.
Apropos of yesterday’s post on the “Right Brothers”, my good friend and TWN‘s legal guru Brian Greer just ran this piece on the “Junkyard Prophet” and the use of high school networks to push social conservative jingles.
This is no joke. And it’s just hilarious. A conservative music duo out of Nashville, the Right Brothers, has just released this song.
Sam Alito needs to be stopped. Enough has now been unearthed to show that, if confirmed, he is going to be an activist Supreme Court Associate Justice taking America back into the deeply divisive wars over abortion, gender equality, and racial equality that all legislative means should be deployed to stop his confirmation.
I just got an email noting that Fox News’ Tony Snow had the quote of the day. After a bit of digging, I found that it wasn’t Tony Snow but rather Tony Blankley in his Town Hall column. He is trying to rally support for Bush with a lot of sticky sophism.
Today is one of those overflowing with so much news and commentary that it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all, Bob Woodward has revealed new information in the Valerie Plame case that could be staggering in its importance.
Lawrence Wilkerson has been in the news a lot because of the no-nonsense framing he has given to discussion of the Vice President’s role in detainee abuse; the manner in which the U.S.
The New York Times has its piece out this morning on the end-of-year departure of CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin. (Mine from yesterday is here.) Holtz-Eakin spoke truth about fiscal matters and often irritated weak-minded Congressional leaders who wanted political rather than empirical responses from the CBO Director and his team.
Actually, my headline is misleading. CBO Director Doulas Holtz-Eakin has been offered a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” according to him, to serve as the Paul A. Volcker Fellow in International Economics and the Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He assumes his post on December 30th.
