I was up recently visiting Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland — which claims to have one of the oldest unharvested spruce and hemlock forests in the region. Quite a beautiful place.
Barney Frank gets it. His Boston Globe piece this morning, “Afghanistan Ignored,” reinforces a point I tried to make long ago — those who have opposed Joe Lieberman’s continued tenure are “not anti-war.” Rather, they are “anti-Iraq War.
Just a bit of notice that I will be live on MSNBC at 1:45 pm ET discussing former Iran President Mohammad Khatami’s visit to Washington as well as current Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s challenge to President Bush to a televised debate.
Talk about Orwellian thought control. This is one of the strangest political ads I have seen in a long time. It’s on YouTube; 29 seconds long. Well worth watching. Relax, and think about good stuff. . .
The Forward is becoming a daily read for me. It does a superb job of captruing diverse views about issues related to Judaism and Israel — and is one of the few American portals I know of where the debates taking place in Israel are published relatively unfiltered.
This is jarring news, positive news. I know very little about conservative Judaism and have the gut feeling that this line of Judaism differs from the orthodox. But even then, what will Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell say about this? I can’t wait.
I’m going to spend the day with friends and my dog, Oakley, fishing and kayaking on the Chester River in Chestertown, Maryland as I tick off another year today. Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mother Teresa both share my birthday of August 27th. Confucius, Many Ray and Pee Wee Herman too.
(Yasukuni Shrine where the souls of Japan’s soldiers who died on the battlefield — as well as WWII class A war criminals — are deified) The Washington Post has just published an article of mine,”The Rise of Japan’s Thought Police,” that will appear in tomorrow’s Outlook pages, but which is available on the web now….
Christopher Preble, Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, just published this on the Partnership for a Secure America’s blog. Preble and I are two of the three executive committee members of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. Chris Preble has organized a good forum at an awful time — 8 a.m….
UPI Editor Emeritus Martin Walker has put out a useful essay on a Royal Institute of International Affairs report on Iran and the U.S. The Chatham House/RIIA report can be downloaded as a pdf here. I love the line about American poker players and Iran’s chess strategy.
