I really like Rachel Maddow and could listen to her all of time if I could give up my addiction to trying to figure out what Dick Cheney and his chief-of-staff David Addington were doing in the shadows every day.

I hesitate to write about health care issues at this moment as a colleague of mine is embroiled in a controversy regarding his comments about health insurance policy ads being released by the Obama campaign.

I’ll be chatting with Liz Lane of Denver’s KGNU along with Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute at 11 am EST about the pending economic stimulus package and the economic priorities of the leading Presidential candidates.

I just got an invite from Barack and Michelle Obama to spend Super Tuesday primary night with them in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

The Cold War continues to rage in one last place in the world — and that is between the United States and Cuba.

My friend Dave Meyer — one of DC’s best political researchers and a co-conspirator on a number of projects with me — browsed through the scorecard that the National Journal used to produce the result that Senator Barack Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate in 2007.

At least thus far, the coalition partner’s in Ehud Olmert’s current government seemed poised to remain where it is, even after the release of the Winograd Report — which criticizes the government for its actions and decision-making in the Lebanon War.

Members of the global steel cartel used to set steel prices at the Duquesne Club where I enjoyed an interesting evening tonight with board members and donors of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh. My task was to outline some of the fault lines in foreign policy and how this fits into the various campaigns….

I’m not sure of this, but my hunch is that Zalmay Khalilzad is probably the highest level Muslim in the Bush administration, and he’s brought a skill set of diplomatic dexterity to the Ambassadorial position at the United Nations vacated by John Bolton.

The Afghanistan Study Group — co-chaired by General Jim Jones and former Ambassador Thomas Pickering will release its report today in an unusual event in the Senate Dirksen Building.