David Kaplan of US News & World Report has an insightful short piece out on the bureaucracy of U.S. public diplomacy and Karen Hughes’ efforts to “win the war of ideas”: U.S. effort on war of ideas draws skepticism.

Every time I seem to go on a long trip — this time to Muscat, Oman for a foreign policy conference — I get stuck in airports and surf the net looking for front organizations that neoconservatives and their fellow-traveling Jesse Helmsian pugnacious nationalists have set up.

Interesting commentary at Political Wire from Dick Morris on Lieberman’s increasingly gloomy prospects in the Democratic Primary against rival Ned Lamont in Connecticut: I think Sen.

I will be on a plane to Muscat, Oman on Monday — for a foreign policy/national security conference on the Middle East — but those of you who can should attend this hearing, which hopefully will air on C-Span.

The Pentagon apparently classifes homosexuality as a “disorder’ even though the mental health profession abandoned that practice three decades ago.

My new colleague at the New America Foundation, Flynt Leverett, has a whopper article in the New York Times today titled “The Race for Iran.

This is a political blog, but the on-again, off-again rivalry and dance between the blogosphere and main stream media intrigues me. The MSM took a huge dive last night. Watch this unbelievable Connie Chung segment — where she has clearly lost it.

Probably not. . .but Jeb has been saying no to a new line of oil wells off the coast. More like a tool of Florida’s tourism industry, but that’s fine with me.

First of all, I had to share this photo above from Vancouver. While my schedule proved to be too unpredictable to meet TWN readers in that city, I did catch up with some of Oakley the Amazing Weimaraner‘s cousins. These two are Jethro and Ellie May. Great dogs. This caught my eye.

Ned Lamont is kicking some serious tail in the Connecticut Senate Democratic primary process and quickly overtaking the iconic Joseph Lieberman who has spent a lot of his time cultivating credentials as a hawkish, neoconservative-leaning almost-Republican.