When in Europe, I was frequently queried about the current state of play in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary process.

I’ve been fielding a number of inquiries on the UN Emergency Peace Service since I threw up a post on it last week. I have been extremely pleased with the reception it’s getting on Capitol Hill and now am very pleased too with how readers of this blog have taken to it.

I will be posting something shortly focusing on Ernest Hemingway’s home in Havana, Cuba and the wrong-headed U.S. restrictions on and penalties against Americans helping to try and preserve Hemingway’s 21-year home, Finca Vigia, and the many books, memos, and other belongings there that are important to Cubans, Americans, and many around the world.

THURSDAY, 12 JULY 2007 — 4 pm ACELA/AMTRAK — NEW YORK TO DC NeoCon High Priest Bill Kristol sits one row behind liberal blog-phenom diva Arianna Huffington and proceeds to chat about his role in nudging and tweaking President Bush’s language.

Foreign Policy‘s blog, Passport decided to draw up a list of ten “good things” the President can take credit for in foreign policy in commemoration of his July 6th birthday. Blake Hounshell suggests this list: 1. Boosting aid to Africa threefold 2. Preventing a nuclear war between India and Pakistan 3. Taking down the A.Q….

Daniel Levy is Senior Fellow in the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program and Director of the Middle East Peace Initiative there. He is also Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation. President Bush in his Palestinian announcement today pushed down softly on the accelerator of a failed Middle East policy.

Hillary Clinton’s Director of Online Everything, Peter Daou, sent a tantalizing email today inviting a handful of political bloggers to a conference call with a mystery endorsement of the campaign.

I have some property in a rustic part of Colorado not far from the 120 mile long Rainbow Trail in the Rockies. I also get a decent tax deal on the land because I have an arrangement with a cattle farmer to allow grazing on the land.

I have been catching up with paperwork and stuff since returning from Europe. Here’s a picture of me with a cute, two-month old Weimaraner named Hugo and his young owner that I crossed paths with in Berlin.

(Philippe Sands, Queen’s Counsel and Professor of Law, University College London) The BBC has a must-listen show on radio tomorrow titled Called to Account (times noted further below) offering a theatrical version of Tony Blair’s indictment for Iraq War-related crimes.