There is a dark truth in the national security establishment. Generals, intelligence directors, national security advisors, and the President prepare themselves to make judgments that may cost American lives. Part of their world involves very tough choices and occasional tragedies.
From the Obama watch pool report tonight: Pool Report — Dec. 17, 2008 On a snowy Chicago night, President-elect Barack Obama left the federal building at 7:30 p.m., about eight hours after he arrived.
Streaming Video by Ustream.TV Not really. I’ll be in DC tomorrow. I’m just participating in a forum (pdf here) via the net titled “The US – A New Reality” sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Primorska with support from the US Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
TWN blogger and syndicated columnist Brian Till has a piece that is making the rounds where he admits as a free-riding news consumer who rarely pays for anything he’s reading to his own culpability in destroying the newspaper industry.
The Federal Reserve Board just reduced the federal funds rate to a range between zero and 1/4 of a point. Unbelievable. The Fed is also moving on a bundle of other fronts to hold this economy together and to try and get loans and financing moving again in the system. We have become Japan. ….
This is an interesting little clip of Bill Clinton discussing Richard Nixon with Elvis Costello. When I helped organize a major Nixon Center conference in Washington in April 1995, Bill Clinton keynoted the event — and I could sense his admiration of and intrigue about many aspects of former President Richard Nixon.
Move over Schwarzenegger. Barack Obama works out every day. EVERY DAY. (Damn him!) I get the pool reports of his comings and goings.
John Kerry takes Foreign Relations. Lieberman keeps Homeland Security. . .
I have very mixed feelings about the news that Caroline Kennedy is now seeking appointment to Hillary Clinton’s soon to be vacated Senate seat.
