No Summer, No Fall
A few things in life are better than sitting in an oceanside Caribbean bar, drinking rum punch and listening to a local band play Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry,” but I can’t offhand remember what they are. Here in Minnesota, though, we are far removed from Jamaica sunsets. We didn’t have much [...]
Obama Doesn’t Mention Afghanistan in Counterterrorism Speech
Michael Crowley writes:
Obama spoke at the National Counterterrorism Center today:
We know that al Qaeda and its extremist allies threaten us from different corners of the globe — from Pakistan, but also from East Africa and Southeast Asia; from Europe and the Gulf. And that’s why we’re applying focused and relentless pressure on al Qaeda — [...]
TED@State: New Ideas for a Better World
Ed. Note: TED is a small nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading." It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
So much has happened since I last wrote about how the State Department is opening its doors to the private sector and civil society. Through the Global Partnership Initiative, [...]
Obama’s back to school speech
Readers will find the prepared remarks of Barack Obama’ back to school speech, here.
Dan Riehls addresses the “creep out factor,” here.
Personally, I found much to be “creeped out” about in Obama’s speech, and couldn’t help but notice the seemingly innocuous political agenda item or two Obama slipped in, along with a couple of damned [...]
‘Obama’s hopey-changey, blame- America-first, anything-but-W’ foreign policy not working’
Not only are Barack Obama’s economic policies not working as promised, his foreign policies haven’t restored, much less advanced, America’s position in the world as was promised. In fact, as Peter Brooks points out, quite the opposite: “”Obama’s weak-kneed, apologetic “Obama-plomacy” is already being exploited across the globe — at great expense to our national [...]
Blakk Rasta: Barack Obama song is pro-Obama
There have been serious heated arguments around the globe as to whether the Barack song by Blakk Rasta recently endorsed by Barack Obama, when he visited Ghana, is pro-Obama or anti-Obama. This is why it has become necessary to explain exactly what the lyrics of the song mean.
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