My new colleague at the New America Foundation, Flynt Leverett, has a whopper article in the New York Times today titled “The Race for Iran.
This is a political blog, but the on-again, off-again rivalry and dance between the blogosphere and main stream media intrigues me. The MSM took a huge dive last night. Watch this unbelievable Connie Chung segment — where she has clearly lost it.
Probably not. . .but Jeb has been saying no to a new line of oil wells off the coast. More like a tool of Florida’s tourism industry, but that’s fine with me.
First of all, I had to share this photo above from Vancouver. While my schedule proved to be too unpredictable to meet TWN readers in that city, I did catch up with some of Oakley the Amazing Weimaraner‘s cousins. These two are Jethro and Ellie May. Great dogs. This caught my eye.
Ned Lamont is kicking some serious tail in the Connecticut Senate Democratic primary process and quickly overtaking the iconic Joseph Lieberman who has spent a lot of his time cultivating credentials as a hawkish, neoconservative-leaning almost-Republican.
(Flynt Leverett on the “News Hour with Jim Lehrer”) In August and September, I will be helping to organize two major national policy forums — one which will take place in Colorado and the other in the U.S. Senate — roughly titled “Thinking the Unthinkable on Iran”.
Click here to read the “confidential messaging memo” from House Majority Leader John Boehner on all the good stuff that Republican Congressman should “tout” about America’s progress in Iraq. I guess Texas swagger is back.
I’m normally a calm guy. There are few times when I get so angry that I want to put my fist through a wall, but not learning from one’s errors in matters of peace and war and life and death is one of them.
Today at 3:30 pm at the New America Foundation, I will be chairing a session with former Republican political strategist and author Kevin Phillips whose book American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century garnered enormous attention this past year.
I’m headed back to DC from a very interesting evening in New York where I got to hang out for a while in the plush and exotic “The Core Club” — an ultra-chic watering hole for people who have seriously large monetary endowments. (The Core Club’s official site is here.
