Category: General

SOME TIME AGO, I PRAISED PETE COORS AND BLASTED KEN SALAZAR because of their respective comments on the Iraq War resolution.

THIS SHORT PIECE (IN GERMAN) RAN IN BERLIN’S LARGEST DAILY, Der Tagesspiegel. The Washington Note got a nice plug. Recently, the Heinrich Boell Foundation hosted a group of German journalists here in the U.S. — and many of them seemed interested in doing more to encourage political blogging in Berlin and Brussels.

THE MOST POPULAR MEMBER OF THIS BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S CABINET has tendered his resignation. Powell’s memoirs are going to fetch a mint for him, and Democrats ought to see if there is any way at all that this guy might switch parties.

FRED PHELPS IS THAT NUT WHO SPENDS ALL HIS TIME HARRASSING GAY people. Finally, some folks on the far right said enough and sent Fred and his idiotic followers packing. Phelps tried to invade the conservative, bible-belting town of Sand Springs, Oklahoma to harrass 17-year old Michael Shackelford and his fellow evangelical parishioners.

I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH ROBERT KAPLAN for a couple of years when he was a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

JAMES K. “JAMIE” GALBRAITH HAS A LEVEL-HEADED REVIEW of the ongoing debate about voting machines, spoiled ballots, and provisional ballots. He works through the numbers on voter turn-out and rejects most of the claims of those who believe that Kerry won the election after all.

ON 9 SEPTEMBER 2004, FOREIGN PURCHASERS OF U.S. TREASURY BONDS failed to show for a routine auction. And as reporte by Los Angeles Times‘ David Streitfeld: “Thoughts of panic flickered out there,” said Sadakichi Robbins, head of global fixed-income trading at Bank Julius Baer.

TODAY, I WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY 126 NAMES AND FACES OF SOLDIERS who had died in Iraq from September 5th to November 4th that appeared in the Washington Post. These soldiers are from all over the nation, mostly from small towns.

WHEN I SPOKE AT THE LEADERSHIP RETREAT OF SANDIA NATIONAL LABS earlier this week, I stated that while I was a guy who gravitated towards the pragmatic rather than the ideological and towards the sensible rather than the extreme, I felt that it was best to do whatever I could to get both the Republican…

MICHAEL POWELL’S FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION is becoming an engine of censorship; a destroyer of a dynamic, innovation-rich IT ecosystem; a supporter of new telecommunications monopolies; and an advocate of civil society-stifling media concentration. Saving Private Ryan has just been pulled from airing on ABC affiliates.