I am not a single issue guy — and despite my differences with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) on health care and his general applause for the next and next next wars America chooses, he did a great thing by introducing legislation today to repeal the embedded bigotry in our national military forces of Don’t Ask…

(Photo Credit: Stewf’s Photostream) This post, which originally appeared at The Havana Note, is a guest note by Tom Garofalo, a consultant for the New America Foundation/U.S-Cuba Policy Initiative. Israel’s controversial Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested a not-so-novel approach to the problem of Iran’s nuclear ambitions recently.

Politico‘s Ben Smith has one of those “Wow, I can’t believe this” scoops. The only problem is that I actually can believe it. I just don’t want to.

(An anti-gay, anti-Dem mailer from 2004 election that TWN first publicized) My occasional blogging heads partner David Frum may have coined the “Axis of Evil” for George Bush to have an easy way to denigrate Iran, Iraq and North Korea — and thus undermining the possibility of a strategic pivot then in US-Iran relations, but…

Former Washington Post “White House Watch” maven and current DC Huffington Post Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin powerfully deconstructs and pops the Rahm Emanuel bubble that the Washington Post has been puffing up. The first puff came in a widely read Dana Milbank column.

I attended a media briefing at the Turkish Embassy yesterday, during which a group of visiting Turkish Foreign Affairs Committee members urged the U.S. House of Representatives not to pass H.R.

The arrests last week in Turkey of 51 past and present military chiefs must be understood in the context of the divide between the ruling (moderately Islamist) Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the traditionally politically powerful and staunchly secular military establishment.

I took this pic on my increasingly useful iPhone on Amelia Island, outside of Jacksonville, Florida. I’m here with a very interesting bunch of folks discussing a framework for policy alternatives and different narratives that could be useful in changing the course of America’s Afghanistan policy. More later.

Brookings Institution Turkey Project Director Ömer Taspinar offers his thoughts on the recent wave of arrests of former and current military officials in Turkey. Taspinar is among the most astute and objective analysts of Turkish politics in Washington and this quick snippet captures the essence of the political events unfolding there

This is a guest “note” from Gail Reed, an American journalist based in Havana. Her comments are from an email, published at The Washington Note with her permission, commenting on the recent U.S.