I have some property in a rustic part of Colorado not far from the 120 mile long Rainbow Trail in the Rockies. I also get a decent tax deal on the land because I have an arrangement with a cattle farmer to allow grazing on the land.
I have been catching up with paperwork and stuff since returning from Europe. Here’s a picture of me with a cute, two-month old Weimaraner named Hugo and his young owner that I crossed paths with in Berlin.
(Philippe Sands, Queen’s Counsel and Professor of Law, University College London) The BBC has a must-listen show on radio tomorrow titled Called to Account (times noted further below) offering a theatrical version of Tony Blair’s indictment for Iraq War-related crimes.
This morning I received a Treasury Department email reminding me of the damaging encounter that America had with Dubai and many Arab moderates and modernists when a bipartisan Congressional crowd forced the White House to privately tell the Dubai government owned DP World to drop its acquisition plans for a number of American port operations….
(picture of the top of the Reichstag in Berlin) I’ve just returned from Berlin and am scribbling a brief note from JFK Airport in New York.
I attended a John McCain Mixer at “The Core Club” in New York last year (on an evening I had helped organize a George Soros book party in the same club) and was impressed with McCain’s unambiguous support for stem cell research, his smart views on immigration reform, as well as his candor that he…
Scott Paul has been doing a great job offering some stimulating posts while I have had a heavy conference and meeting schedule in Berlin. I will be back in full commentary mode when I get back to Washington tonight.
(Natanz nuclear enrichment facility) Just released in the Washington Post is an interesting story on the existence of a new — heretofore unreported — hardened underground facility and set of tunnels conneted to Natanz. Some analysts believe that it this facility is probably meant to disperse and protect nuclear assets in case of attack.
I don’t really want to ridicule Senator Chuck Schumer, who has a thoughtful fundraising appeal letter out today which does a very good job spelling out the problems Senate Republicans face in 2008. I will post his letter below.
How times have changed — sort of. I realize that the above picture is not as clear as it might be. I snapped it on my cell phone camera when visiting Senator Hagel‘s office recently. The picture shows George W. Bush hugging Senators McCain and Hagel.