Richard Armitage Speaking Tomorrow, April 6th

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For those of you on line and over at the Office of Naval Reseach, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is giving a talk tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. titled “The World in 2020.” I have someone who will be there to report back on any interesting material that gets discussed.

I Want to Offer Tom DeLay a <em>TWN</em> Fellowship

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I’ve got no inside track on DeLay, but I imagine that whatever prosecutors were wringing out of his line of former top aides who are pleading guilty one after another to fraud and corruption charges had something to do with DeLay’s announcement yesterday.

Koizumi’s “Liberal” Problem

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One probably has to be addicted to the soap opera that is Japanese politics to get the laugh I did out of the news that Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party wants to drop “Liberal” from its English-language name.

The Hammer is Out

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Tom DeLay once joked at a DC dinner I attended that the only conservative he saw preparing to run for president was Hillary Clinton. He unveiled a bunch of political signs that said “Hillary and the Hammer in 2008.” So, we should all watch out.

Leopold Reports that Fitzgerald Close to Securing Indictment Against Rove

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I have not been able to confirm a key point in this methodical and carefully ordered account by Jason Leopold of Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of the Valerie Plame Wilson leak that states that the government investigator “is now preparing the paperwork to present a grand jury outlining the charges against Rove in hopes of securing…

Eastern Shore Political Blogosphere Event

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Ever been to Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland? It’s a great place, founded in 1782 in part by George Washington who was on the Board of Visitors and contributed to the school’s original endowment.