Month: August 2008

The Era of Small-Ball is Over

Dan Balz makes a good point: In the modern era, there has never been quite as concentrated a dose of potentially campaign-altering events as the coming three weeks could produce. By the end of that period, Obama and McCain will...

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Waging Peace in the Middle East

This article appears in the August 2008 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and was distributed by the Council for the National Interest. In it, John Mearsheimer, Uri Avnery, and others offer advice to the US...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Vol. 158

Welcome back. This week we will be continuing with the (West) Cape May, New Jersey Victorian house.  The photo that I’m using is seen directly below. I am doing this piece in my usual acrylics and, once again, in an...

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The Hippie White House

Some seemingly long-settled issues didn’t go away, they went underground.  This time around some of the key players are acting a lot like those they once disdained. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning...

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