Category: General

The publicists of George W. Bush‘s memoir, Decision Points, have not put me on their distro list so I don’t yet have the book.

This was sent in by a TWN reader in Japan. It just kind of sticks with you. This dog is not my kind of dog — and I’m really not into the whole samurai scene. That said, I think that this pup could have his own TV show some day.

(April 1, 2008 – Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America) Over the years, this blog has expressed admiration for some of the principled issues that John McCain stood by when his Republican Party was off course. He was gay friendly then and had lots of gay staffers in his campaign.

China ,Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia have been placed on a new Watch List for countries that have excessively large current account surpluses and for not taking adequate corrective measures. Check out the full list.

Yesterday evening, I watched Glenn Beck’s ‘defamercial‘ on George Soros. There is already much commentary out there — Michael Tomasky’s being among the best — that knocks back the slime, slurs, and defamation of Soros by Fox and Beck. I encourage you to watch the show, if one can call it that.

Harvard University’s big think realist and Foreign Policy blogger Stephen Walt has published a brilliant take-down of George W. Bush’s just-released-today memoir, Decision Points.

I just caught AFP correspondent Stephen Collinson’s pool report from India as President Obama wraps up his trip there. Here is the full, short report. . .but catch the last line on Air Force One taxiing off into the smog. Pool Report # 1, Nov, 9 — New Delhi Motorcade rolled at 8.

(click image for larger version) I am up north of New York City today where it’s rainy, windy, and beautiful. Thanks to the hospitality of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, I’ll be staying at the Pocantico Conference Center which is the former coach and horse barn for Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.

I don’t care what he says and don’t care what the analysts think, my hunch is that Jeb Bush may be lurking way behind in the shadows preparing to run in 2012 — and that could be a very tough race for President Obama. And even if he doesn’t then, he’s only 63 in 2016….

On Wednesday evening, Obama confidente and White House Senior Advisor for Public Outreach Valerie Jarrett held a conference call with progressives around the country who may have been disheartened by Tuesday’s election results.