Congratulations to Cem Oezdemir who has been elected co-chairman of the German Green Party. It’s the party’s top political post. His victory makes him the highest-ranking German politician of Turkish descent. Turkish immigrants and their descendants number more than 2.5 million and make up 3% of Germany’s total population.
Los Angeles Times correspondent P.J. Huffstutter has pool reporter duty today and sent in this gem. . . However, your pool reporter did spot something sort of charming in today’s Chicago Sun-Times: According to gossip Michael Sneed, Obama’s new Secret Service name is “Renegade.” Mrs. Obama’s is reportedly “Renaissance.
Four days ago I published and then quickly “unpublished” this item on Hillary Clinton being in line for Secretary of State: I just received some surprising news — like, really surprising. The deal is not done — but at the moment — Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the lead to be Secretary of State.
My friend and former New America Foundation colleague Karen Kornbluh, who was principal author of the Democratic Party Platform and who has served as Policy Director in Senator Barack Obama’s Senate office, just had a great profile/Q&A appear on CNN.
A 3 vote difference with 10,000 votes left to process. . .but hey, if it keeps Sarah Palin from the Senate. . .
Barack Obama should keep his smile and not adopt the scowl that Vice President Richard Cheney often deployed to tenderize his victims, but he should pay careful attention to the way that Cheney animated hundreds of followers to move the Cheney agenda across the national security bureaucracy.
This shot was sent in by frequent TWN commenter, POA. It’s a railroad trestle as seen from beneath. I think it’s quite stunning. Back from Pittsburgh yesterday. In DC. Off to Europe on Thursday.
Over the past five years, the ongoing U.S. military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought to the fore a host of challenges affecting America’s armed forces.
Last night, I had a round with the smartest anchor on air, Rachel Maddow, about Joe Lieberman and what his future in the Senate could look like. I have heard Joe Lieberman state on many occasions that “our children’s education is a national security issue.
This is interesting. The Project for a New American Century — the lilly pad for the neoconservative movement — is back online. For nearly a year, perhaps more, the site has been down. No one seems to have paid the bill to the internet site host. But it’s back up.