I will be arriving in Prague Wednesday morning this week and there during the day. I fly to Berlin Wednesday evening and will be there for a conference until Saturday morning, when I fly back to Prague. Sunday afternoon, I return to Washington.

If the former Rector George F. Regas of All Souls Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California had given a sermon that was both pro-war and pro-Bush, would the IRS then have written a letter threatening the church’s IRS exemption? This is outrageious news.

Part of the serialization of former British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer has just hit the press in tomorrow’s Guardian newspaper.

According to AP: President Bush, reacting to the indictment of a high-level White House aide, has ordered a refresher on ethics rules for his staff.

If folks see this in the next couple of minutes, I will be discussing the struggle over the “national political conversation” between the White House and leading Dems on CNN’s “On the Story” with Jacki Schechner in about two minutes. It’s a short clip but pretty good I think.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former State Department Chief of Staff, has been cooperating with the media to deepen and broaden his commentary on the breakdown of the national security decision making process in the White House.

The American Enterprise Institute is planning to host Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister, for his first American speech in 2 1/2 years at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9.

During a recent major terrorism conference I organized, I hired a well-connected Republican consultant to help me fill out administration participation in the meeting. Considering that we were meeting amidst the Katrina disaster, my consultant did fairly well.

I hope my colleague, Afshin Molavi, is correct about brewing reform and civil society development in Iran. I’ve heard a lot over the years that Iran’s theocratic rulers are very far from the democracy-pining average folks.

Just got a note from the foreign policy team at the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and the Ray Suarez interview has been pushed back one more day. It will air tomorrow night. I’ll be watching it in Santa Fe, where I am heading now to give a couple of talks.