Month: April 2008

Let’s say hypothetically that Barack Obama secures the nomination and wins the presidential election in the fall. And let’s say that the Democrats substantially increase their majorities in both the House and the...

Mikheil Saakashvili has clearly been binging on the freedom cool aid as these are the words that he has just spoken at the Young Atlanticists Summit in Bucharest. They were preceded by, “yes I believe you should privatize...

Did anyone see Obama on Hardball? What did you think?

(Cross-posted from Daily Kos) Although many of us would like the presidential primary to be over sooner rather than later, it doesn’t appear that Hillary Clinton will withdraw from the race before Montana and South Dakota...

The current situation in Iraq is eerily familiar to the situation in Vietnam at the beginning of 1971, and not because of the number of years we’ve been fully committed. In late 1970, Nixon was fearful that the North...