I don’t keep a secret of the fact that Grover Norquist and his wife Samah are friends of mine — and I just had him in to speak at the New America Foundation on his new book, Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives.
The Council on Foreign Relations has just released a zinger report on Latin America. It’s just fantastic, and I have to admit that I rarely find myself doing jumping jacks and running around my block in Dupont Circle in Washington after reading a CFR Task Force report. But I am.
Check out this interesting piece by Aram Roston and Kianne Sadeq. The NBC news correspondents report that the U.S. has finally cut off Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi for his “unauthorized” contacts with Iran.
Hoffmania posts what I consider to be one of the most important, powerful exchanges I have seen on The Daily Show. While posing some of the discussion points for laughs, Stewart conducts an intense, tough interview. The segments are nearly 20 minutes in length.
It’s never too late, perhaps. We have not heard yet whether John Edwards is joined by his wife Elizabeth Edwards, who is believed to tilt towards Hillary Clinton preferring her health care proposal to Obama’s.
In yesterday’s Washington Post, Fred Hiatt makes the case that the UN is at fault for suffering in Darfur and Myanmar.
Lebanon is one of the most diverse nations in the Middle East. The country is home to many religious communities and serves as an experiment in Middle East pluralism. In part because of Lebanon’s pluralistic makeup, it has been in a near-constant state of conflict for decades.
AP is reporting that Nawaz Sharif’s party has pulled out of cabinet positions from the coalition government with the PPP led by the late Benazir Bhutto’s husband Asif Zardari.
When I was recently in Saudi Arabia, I visited the impressive campus of King Saud University which sports more than 80,000 students and is making major investments in the science infrastructure of the country. We also visited SAGIA, the Saudi Arabia General Investment Authority, which is helping to oversee and implement the Kingdom’s competitiveness agenda….