President Obama’s recently co-written oped, done with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, asserted Transatlantic concerns about affairs in Libya — and intentionally or not, proclaimed ownership of the conflict.
When I was getting hooked on the public policy world, one of my on-ramps was the “Fred Friendly Seminar” series initiated decades ago by former CBS President Fred Friendly.
Atarin18 loaded this YouTube video of fellow Marines stationed in Afghanistan lip-synching to Britney Spears’ “Hold it Against Me.” The note that went with the video was touching I thought: Thank you everyone for the support! Sorry i had to take down the? other videos.
At the beginning of the Libya intervention debate, President Obama said he thought America’s involvement would “be limited to days and not weeks.” Now, it seems that we will have to update that ‘hope’ to be “months if not years.
Helene Cooper of the New York Times has published a great what’s up story on the new behind the scenes scramble by the Obama administration, Prime Minister Netanyahu and various Palestinian officials to act as if they have some plan to move the peace process forward — when in fact, most of it is insincere…
Gary Busey is in to Donald Trump. Enjoy.
Not that kind of moose hunting. The kind where you drive by and see a big moose standing in the mud, perhaps a cow moose and calves. Or maybe a big bull moose with a big rack of horns.
On Thursday evening, I attended a State Department reception hosted by Under Secretary of State for Economic affairs Robert Hormats commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the OECD.
One of the interesting global personalities who made the economic discussions at the Bretton Woods Forum organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking interesting was Swedish Social Democrat Parliament Member Leif Pagrotsky.
The Libya op-ed appearing today in three lead papers: The Times (of London); the New York Times (which includes the subsidiary International Herald Tribune) , and Le Figaro, written by British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and US President Barack Obama got treated a bit differently depending where it appeared.