Monday, December 27

OSCE's backdoor attempt to influence Thailand's election and why Americans should take note

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OSCE Permanent Council [Flipping her pen in the air] Can't I go on vacation for a few weeks without the cockroaches running riot in Wash...
Monday, December 20

Britain's Snowmageddon: No dress rehearsal for the unexpected (REVISED)

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UPDATE December 22, 2010 - 3:50 AM ET I pulled the report Chances of Empty Shelves for Last-Minute Shoppers by Daniel Goode at Financial F...
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The high cost of cheap

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One thing I hate doing is making major revisions to an essay once I've published it, but as I noted in the update to yesterday's pos...
Sunday, December 19

Three reports on Mexico and questions about NAFTA (Revised)

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Update 7:15 PM The response from a blogger friend to the original version of this post caused me to consider that I'd worked so many co...
Saturday, December 18

Britain Snowmageddon and Europe Snowpocalypse

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The M25 comes to halt as snow causes travel chaos across the UK Photo for The Telegraph: TOMMY HINDLEY Here we go again, and it's n...
Friday, December 17

Looney Tunes in North Waziristan

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December 16, CNN : Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's defense minister says any new military operations in the Taliban's strong...
Thursday, December 16

Text of President Obama's speech on Afghan War

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December 16 Good morning, everybody. When I announced our new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan last December, I directed my national se...

Top U.S. civilian advisor: Time to wean Pakistan from "a very rich diet of carrots"

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In an interview with Matthew Green for Financial Times, which Bloomberg picked up on (thank you Bloomberg!) Bill Harris, who stepped down ...
Wednesday, December 15

The rundown: The Afghan War as it is today

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Last night I posted a December 14 New York Times report that summarized how the strategic review of the Afghan War has been shaking out. No...

John Batchelor on legal challenge to ObamaCare and Commerce Clause

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The following are John's notes on his radio interviews last night on ObamaCare and how the debate on the health care bill folds in with ...

Phooey! WHAT Amrullah Saleh interview on December 14?

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I'm going to have to take away one of the gold stars I just gave The New York Times for their December 14 report , Intelligence Reports...
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Tuesday, December 14

Helpful New York Times summary of current Afghan War strategy review

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Mark Mazzetti and David E. Sanger contributed to the following New York Times report published about three hours ago; both men are highly pr...

No egg on face here in Punditaland re Holbrooke's last words

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At 7:50 PM ET The Washington Post published something close to a retraction regarding their report late last night that described Richard H...

Ignoring advice that there have been too many cooks in Afghan War, Obama names Frank Ruggerio to fill Richard Holbrooke's post

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From a December 14, 2010 Christian Science Monitor analysis : [...] But despite his reputation as a heavyweight in US diplomacy going back ...

Vladimir Putin's Karakachan Shepherd is renamed Buffy

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Dima Sokolov meets the dog he named It was a five-year old boy who came up with the name Putin liked best so anything I could say in critici...

The last words of Richard Holbrooke

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UPDATE 8:10 PM ET At 7:50 PM The Washington Post published something close to a retraction regarding their report last night that mentioned...
Monday, December 13

Update re using Espionage Act to indict Assange

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Just added the following update to my post yesterday, Julian Assange likely to be indicted under Espionage Act . ABC news report today : Es...
Sunday, December 12

Amrullah Saleh comes to Washington with a message

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Amrullah Saleh spoke at the Jamestown Foundation's Fourth Annual Terrorism Conference , which was held at the National Press Club on Dec...