I will be regularly posting clips called “What the Right is Saying” and “What the Left is Saying” from time to time — particularly when there is a point either side is making that reasonable people could scratch their head and say, ‘hey, that makes some sense. . .’ From RedState.
Barack Obama is about to become the 44th President of the United States and like most Presidents, he will begin (if he hasn’t already) to read as many profiles and biographies of great leaders as he can pile on his night table. Or Lincoln’s.
I just learned that John Shattuck, President and CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, will be shifting from his current duties to assume the helm as president and rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
I will be hosting a live discussion with Eugene Jarecki, director of the award-winning film Why We Fight, at a meeting at the New America Foundation today between 12:15 pm and 1:45 pm EST. We will be discussing his new book, The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril….
In considering George W. Bush’s legacy, I would suggest that Bush flamboyantly hastened America’s global decline — a decline that might have otherwise been stretched out over many decades and happened anyway. Bush sped up history and punctured America’s mystique as a superpower by showing key fundamental limits.
Hillary Clinton did a great job answering questions directly without over-promising in her confirmation hearing and Questions for the Record. Fortunately, she left behind a few clues as to where we’re headed. Clinton’s plan to aggressively pursue U.S. accession to the Law of the Sea Convention, as noted earlier, is wonderful news.
A lot of Middle East watchers have been stunned by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s snotty depiction of both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President Bush with regard to UN Security Council Resolution 1860 calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
This is an intriguing exchange between Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-08-D) and Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn.
I will be hosting a live discussion with US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad at a meeting at the New America Foundation today between 12:15 and 1:45 pm EST.
This just in from a loyal reader. Senator Norm Coleman’s (R-MN) office is now closed. But Senator Roland Burris’ office is painted and has his name on the wall. (website still on its way) Burris will nest at Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 523 — right across from the Senate Judiciary Committee offices.
