It’s a coldish, overcast day in Washington, D.C. — and for local blog friends — I’m over at the Starbucks at Connecticut & R Streets if you want to grab a latte and talk about the big issues of the day.
Former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson, who spoke at the New America Foundation several weeks ago, deepened his commitment to truth-telling about the administration’s role in promoting torture and abuse of detainees under American control.
Democratic hawk John Murtha is sort of like a living version of John Wayne in Congress. He was a marine. He put his life on the line for his country in time of war. He’s a guy of few words. He doesn’t really like reporters or spinning stories.
I traveled out to the heartland yesterday — to Dubuque, Iowa. Just got back to Washington minutes ago. It was impressive to meet so many deeply interested in the great debates of the day, in America’s foreign policy, in the scandals in the White House, and in American politics in general.
Washington Post Managing Editor Len Downie will chat online with the public via this Washington Post site at 10 a.m. I’d really like to know what Downie is going to do to punish Woodward for commenting publicly on a case in which he privately knew he was a central witness. Woodward’s behavior has been outrageous….
Yesterday evening, the New America Foundation‘s American Strategy Program organized a thoughtful session debating the future of American strategy vis-a-vis China. The participants were Jim Pinkerton, Michael Lind, Sherle Schwenninger, Ted Halstead, Barry Lynn, Jennifer Buntman, Robert Wright, and myself.
Apropos of yesterday’s post on the “Right Brothers”, my good friend and TWN‘s legal guru Brian Greer just ran this piece on the “Junkyard Prophet” and the use of high school networks to push social conservative jingles.
This is no joke. And it’s just hilarious. A conservative music duo out of Nashville, the Right Brothers, has just released this song.
Sam Alito needs to be stopped. Enough has now been unearthed to show that, if confirmed, he is going to be an activist Supreme Court Associate Justice taking America back into the deeply divisive wars over abortion, gender equality, and racial equality that all legislative means should be deployed to stop his confirmation.
I just got an email noting that Fox News’ Tony Snow had the quote of the day. After a bit of digging, I found that it wasn’t Tony Snow but rather Tony Blankley in his Town Hall column. He is trying to rally support for Bush with a lot of sticky sophism.
