Category: General

My good friend, Matt Stoller of MyDD, has scolded me just a bit for some minor swipes I took at the leftish blogosphere. I probably deserved the swat.

Oakley says happy Thanksgiving to all — and the good news is that his sister Annie will soon be in town, right around Christmas. Here she is: Happy holidays from this blogger too.

The politically ambidextrous king of one-line political zingers Marshall Wittman has made bloggers and traditional style journalists go bonkers the last couple of days. He’s going back to work in the Senate, but this time for an Independent.

Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman have been on a collision course for some time. They are both very tough-minded, opinionated, media savvy Democrats on the rise, and they have been knocking into each other for some time while still feigning mutual admiration.

(Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, former President Bill Clinton, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; UN Foundation Dinner, 19 Nov 2006, photo credit: Jennifer Willis) Last night, Washington’s political stars turned out to pay homage to the banker who started in 1976 lending $27 to 42 people in one village in Bangladesh.

According to Bob Woodward’s recent book State of Denial, Henry Kissinger reportedly advised the Bush administration that “victory was the only way out of Iraq.” Now, according to this AP report, Kissinger seems to be changing his tune.

UPDATE: EVENT MAXED OUT The Hudson Institute does not have this event noted on its website, but Richard Weitz has assembled an interesting panel discussion regarding Democracy in the Middle East on Monday, 20 November, noon-2 pm that will take place at the Hudson Institute’s offices in Washington. C-Span will cover the event.

(IISS Director of Studies and former Bush administration US AID official Patrick Cronin) Patrick Cronin, Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, has sent me a new publication from the IISS Armed Conflict Database titled “Flashpoint”.

I certainly missed this earlier in the week. CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck interviewed the first Muslim Member of Congress, Keith Ellison (D-MT) and said: “Sir, prove to me you are not working with our enemies.” First of all Glenn, Muslims are not our enemies.

10:35 a.m. EST — Sam Seder and I will discuss America’s Middle East mess.