Israel-Palestine Plate Heating Up

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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…

Article on Price of Tomatoes Beats Out Obama-Sarkozy-Cameron Libya OpEd

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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.

Matthews, Landay & Clemons: Discussing Pakistan’s Challenge to American Strategy

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I chatted with Chris Matthews of MSNBC and Jonathan Landay of McClatchy News on Hardball the other night. I thought it was a terrific discussion — and was pleased to hear Landay outline the reality that Pakistan and the U.S.

America’s Unpaid for Wars

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Every once in a while, prominent people say things they don’t think will be heard. Apparently, President Obama went off on the Republicans, John Boehner and Paul Ryan when a mic was open that he didn’t know about. I actually think Obama’s comments were juicy and terrific — mostly on the mark and sincere.

High Stakes Flirting with Debt Ceiling Caps: Add a Zero to the Last House-Induced Plunge

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Some time before July 8th, there will be a vote in Congress on raising the federal debt ceiling. Many Americans think that if you just cap the debt ceiling, the American government will be forced to stop stacking up debts.

Comments Restored

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The decibel level of vulgarity and character assassination on the blog seem to have subsided. Let’s not go down that road again — at all. I am turning off the controls monitoring comments for the time being. I hope that great debates, civilly deployed, now take shape here.