I met former New York Mayor Rudy Giuiliani on Friday at a pre-fundraising mixer and got to size him up a bit.

My colleagues Peter Bergen, who moonlights at CNN’s terrorism analyst and is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Paul Cruickshank, a Research Fellow at NYU’s Center on Law and Security and frequent collaborator with New America foreign policy projects, have a great Mother Jones cover story piece out measuring the impact that…

After a week of some too chilly days and uncooperative ice flows (though things are now warming) in Washington, Tucson is paradise.

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) today is giving an important speech on US-Iran relations at the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s James E. Smith Conference on World Affairs. Hagel suggests that we can’t leave the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to turn even more ulcerous and not be resolved.

Yesterday evening, I posed a question to Under Secretary of State and former US Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council of the United States. I think the meeting will appear today and during the coming week on C-Span.

Tomorrow night, Thursday, I will be speaking at the Tucson Committee on Foreign Relations. Regrettably, I show up at about 4 pm, do a television interview, and then the dinner and return to Washington the next day at 6 am — so no coffee house gatherings this round.

I received an email yesterday evening from Leigh Ann Ambrosi, Director of Marketing for Sterling Publications, announcing that Sterling’s new imprint, Union Square Press, had signed Alan Weisman — “a veteran producer with CBS News, 60 Minutes and Charlie Rose — to write Prince of Darkness — Richard Perle: The Kingdom, the Power, and the…

The New York Times ran a lead editorial today suggesting that to keep its ranks full, the US military is digging more deeply into the available American labor pool than it perhaps should and has already issued more than 125,000 “moral waivers” to new enlistees.

Annie posing as a “puppy wrap” On a good ziggy romp. . . Over the hill and through the woods and under the log. . . The Dynamic Duo in action — DC bad guys watch out! Hey — Oakley. . .Annie. . . .

This is an intriguing story that hit Newsweek on the role and influence of a relatively unknown super lobbyist and former staffer to Richard Lugar, Richard Hohlt. Hohlt is one of the major heavyweights in Republican party fundraising. Check out how he has spread the wealth.