Senator Jim DeMint was not one of the major political players whose every move we watched this weekend, but he was the animator of much of the high stakes drama over raising the debt ceiling and cutting the national debt.
The standoff over the debt ceiling continues. Back and forth. Tit for tat. No progress. Paralysis. Stuff is happening in the world — but there is absolutely no bandwidth for anything other than the debt ceiling debate.
Friends who have been battling a series of really bad fires that forced evacuations from homes in central Colorado — near Westcliffe, Colorado — have been sending me pictures of what has been going on as I have some land in the Rockies near them.
Twice at the helm California Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown has called for Californians to get 12,000 MW of their energy from local power distribution grids by 2020.
The best places to meet the world’s most interesting national security and foreign policy personalities are no longer Washington or London or Paris. Rather, highest on the list are Beijing, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha. Many years ago, I met Lt. General Asad Durrani in Beijing thanks to a conference organized by Australia’s Monash University.
The U.S. Helsinki Commission, co-chaired by Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), has been quiet about the bashings of gay people and their family and friends at gay pride marches in eastern Europe and the Baltics, according to the Council for Global Equality.
I love Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish feature, The View From Your Window, which I occasionally copied (with his permission) at The Washington Note. (click image above for larger version) But now at Andrew’s former home among The Atlantic‘s “Voices”, I am going to post occasional photos that intrigue me as “The Other View”.
Now that General David Petraeus has mothballed his uniforms, turned the ISAF command in Afghanistan over to General John Allen, and taken Leon Panetta’s chair at the CIA, the next to last big name who fought for primacy in DC’s Afghanistan policy wars is, for the most part, off to other pastures.
In the case of the United States — which has been indisputably the reigning global superpower for six decades — there are signs — ranging from the tumult in the Middle East to a humiliating war in Afghanistan to a downgrade of US sovereign debt — that America is at a key inflection point in…
Later today in Washington, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will release a proposal and report titled “The Startup Act’. it’s not legislation but rather a package of proposals designed to facilitate growth of young firms, which interestingly, are responsible for “all” new net jobs created in our economy in recent years.
