‘Renegade’ and ‘Renaissance’. . .Better Than ‘Maverick’ and ‘Medieval’

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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.

Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State?

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Four days ago I published and then quickly “unpublished” this item on Hillary Clinton being in line for Secretary of State: I just received some surprising news — like, really surprising.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.

What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney

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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.

A Constructive “New Social Contract” with Joe Lieberman

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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.

PNAC is BACK? McCain’s Neocons May be Breathing Life Back into the Organization

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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.