National Security Priorities of the 112th Congress

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Anticipating National Security Priorities in the 112th Congress from Stimson Center on Vimeo. Gordon Adams, a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, is one of the nation’s premier national security budget experts and a big part of the muscle behind the defense budget blog, The Will and the Wallet.

Jonathan Guyer: DC’s Right to Vote (Not!)

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(click image for larger version) Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force and the official cartoonist of The Washington Note. He blogs at Mideast by Midwest.

Lawrence Summers Needs to Retool his Wall Street Tilt

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When Senator Jeff Bingaman was working diligently in the mid-1990s to get not only the White House but also Republican and Democratic Senators and House Members to focus on the large scale, structural deficits that were building between the United States on one hand and Japan and China on the other, he tasked his team…

Specter on Sestak: It’s Nip and Tuck

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New York Times White House correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg is trailing President Obama who is campaigning in Pennsylvania today. In a pool report she filed a few minutes ago, she reports that she caught up with US Senator Arlen Specter on the airport tarmac.

Exaggerating the Terrorist Threat

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My colleague, friend and sometime Washington Note poster Andrew Lebovich has a really excellent piece up at Foreign Policy analyzing Osama bin Laden’s new tape threatening France.