Category: General

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.

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. I thought she wouldn’t take it if offered.

Joe Lieberman wants to keep his status and committees and caucus with the Democrats. He has been a fear-monger and someone who has promoted a dangerous, reckless false choice between American relations with Israel and other parts of the Middle East.

I’ve been saying for some time that the day after Obama’s election, all sorts of policy and personality battles would unfold around him.

There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. If so, he’s pulling a “Donald Rumsfeld” who served as Secretary of Defense twice — the first stint under Gerald Ford and then of course under George W. Bush.

An Unhappy Squeaker: Democrat Al Franken trails incumbent Senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race by 477 votes. A Happy Squeaker: Democrat Jeff Merkley now seems to be the winner in Oregon’s Senate race that was not called until last night.

WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and I are about to do a cool live show — video and audio — through Skype. Check it out.

Right now, I’m going to be chatting, as I do every week, with Sydney’s ABC 702 morning show anchor Deborah Cameron. At 6 pm EST or thereabouts, I’ll be in an in-studio chat with the so very excellent Rachel Maddow on Air America Radio.