After last night’s venture into Walter Russell Mead’s four American foreign policy traditions (Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Hamilton), we have Chuck Lane plumbing another foursome today: the four American political traditions that the brilliant historian David Hackett Fischer–I mean, you really have to read this guy; it’s both deeply enlightening and a total pleasure–located in [...]
Although the battle over passing health reform is being waged here in Washington, the front lines for implementing whatever passes will be the states. In the new issue of the print magazine, Kate Pickert and I look at what that means. The latest evidence of the Governors’ growing concern about what lies ahead came in [...]
Walter Russell Mead, usually a very fine foreign policy thinker, has a piece in the new issue of Foreign Policy that sort of compares Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter…and to Thomas Jefferson in his attitudes about America’s place in the world. I don’t find it very convincing. Here’s Mead’s definition of a Jeffersonian foreign policy: [...]
They’re dropping like flies, those embattled-Democrats-in-races-they-were-possibly-likely-to-lose. Chris Dodd is reportedly ready to follow his colleague Byron Dorgan and start collecting his Senate pension next year. (He could always try again from Iowa, where the Dodd family moved for the Connecticut senator’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.) Colorado Governor Bill Ritter is also expected to announce on [...]
Kay Bailey Hutchison has bought 30 seconds of ad time during the Most Important Event of the Week. At least, it is in my house. HOOK ‘EM HORNS! UPDATE: Wayne Slater has photos of KBH and her nemesis Rick Perry during their college days. UPDATE2: What have we come to? Liberal bloggers have to step [...]
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Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, made the surprise announcement today that he would not seek reelection. His retirement moves North Dakota into the “toss up” category — a blow for Democrats in a state that will be tough defend (McCain won it with 53% of the vote). Dorgan had long been worried that North Dakota [...]
The senior military intelligence officer in Afghanistan has penned a stinging evaluation of his team’s ability to collect the right kind of information. In a paper for the Center For New American Security, Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn writes: Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. intelligence community is only marginally relevant to [...]
