(Senator Prescott Bush — father of President George H.W. Bush; grandfather of President George W. Bush and Governor Jeb Bush) Let’s just say that in 1992, you or someone you know and care about was eight years old.
Just about every day I get an email from the Department of Defense identifying casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Is it just a plain old conference — or is there other stuff going on at this hyper-well attended assembly organized this week in Herziliya? Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times reports in his blog that the following mix of Luke Skywalkers and Darth Vaders (many more Darth Vaders) attended a meeting at a coastal…
I don’t know how many of you subscribe to Think Progress, a political newsletter affiliated with the Center for American Progress, but it does an extraordinary job of building a wave beneath hard-hitting political research and getting it out into the media and blogosphere.
Henry Kissinger has disclosed today in his important Washington Post op-ed, “Stability in Iraq and Beyond,” that he believes America should engage in discussions with Syria and Iran.
This was a nice surprise. TWN scored in the top 10 blogs on Capitol Hill. There were 17 who made the list because of ties in the rankings. More soon.
I really wish New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson would remain the globe-spanning international problem fixer that he has been for many years.
Senator Hillary Clinton’s Legislative Director, Laurie Rubiner, is mentioned prominently today in the Los Angeles Times. Such mention is long overdue for the work she did as the Health Program Director at the New America Foundation.
Hillary Clinton will be announcing she is running for President today. A good chance to see her in presidential mode will be at the New America Foundation‘s “10 Big Ideas” event — which oddly is not posted yet on New America’s website — on 31 January 2007 at the Hyatt Regency on Capital Hill.
Senator Chuck Hagel is on the verge of an announcement that he will reportedly make some time during the next two weeks — perhaps sooner rather than later — in which he will indicate whether he will run for President of the United States and whether he will run again to keep his seat as…
