Category: General

Politico‘s uber-cool cartoonist Matt Wuerker, a previous Pulitzer finalist, got the call last night that he’d won the prestigious Herblock Prize. Excellent.

Former Center for American Progress staffer and former President of the Oxford Student Union Will Straw — son of Jack, the UK’s former Foreign Minister — returned home to London last year and kicked of the daily policy brief Left Foot Forward.

Jim Pinkerton sent a clip from White House spokesman Robert Gibb’s Twitter Account to me today stating: Imagine how the political climate would look today if Obama had spent the last year announcing these kinds of projects. Couldn’t agree more.

Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Edward Luce has posted a very good video interview and an analysis of his exchange with Center for American Progress President and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. The robustness of Podesta’s critiques of the White House’s performance is growing.

With $13 million in campaign funds at his disposal and this week the deadline by which other Democratic candidates must file for the Indiana Senate race, Senator Evan Bayh — who was runner up to Joe Biden to be Obama’s vice presidential running mate — is bowing out of the 2010 U.S. Senate race.

When I was younger, Valentine’s Day was one of the worst days possible of the entire year. When I had girlfriends, I’d usually be dumped either on Valentine’s Day or the day before. I broke my foot on Valentine’s Day. Another year, I was hit by a car while on my bicycle in Westwood, California….

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Bottom line according to Joe Biden, who is effective in this exchange with Meet the Press‘ David Gregory, is that Cheney is misinformed or misleading. That’s charitable.

There is a potentially eery, disconcerting passage in Dexter Filkins’ interesting report on the Afghan, British and American push into the Taliban stronghold of Marja in Helmand Province. Filkins notes that the opposition didn’t really materialize, despite reports that they had recently received reinforcements.

John Podesta on Obama team. I am hearing that Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Edward Luce has a pretty significant interview with Center for American Progress President and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta coming out on Monday. Luce recently did a video interview with Senator John McCain.

Several years ago, I met with the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning staff of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I asked him what he was working on — and what China’s grand strategy was. His reply: “We are trying to figure out how to keep you Americans distracted in small Middle Eastern countries.