http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/Thoughts and comments from a moderate Democrat. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/692115President Obama’s first brush with the National Geospatial -Intelligence Agency was ignominious. Out for lunch in May 2009, at a Five Guys burger franchise in Washington, the new president started to shake the hands of other customers, TV cameras in tow. Then he turned to men with government ID...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/675983IT TURNS OUT that the heroic reaction of New York City vendors who helped to thwart the Times Square bombing this year is fairly typical of Americans' reaction to potential terrorism - and that the involvement of ordinary citizens is essential to keeping the country safe. Between 1999 and 2009,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/675252THE BATTLE for Congress is in the spotlight, but both parties are also spending millions of dollars on state legislative races and gubernatorial campaigns. The reason is simple: the redistricting that will follow the 2010 Census. The party that controls those state positions will determine the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/674694WIKILEAKS FOUNDER Julian Assange claimed at a news conference over the weekend that the release by his organization of 391,000 classified documents on the war in Iraq was intended to "correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/672978THE FACT THAT senior Taliban leaders have "sought to reach out" to the Afghan government, as U.S. Gen. David H. Petraeus recently reported, is encouraging news. It suggests that U.S. military operations against the insurgents are having more of an impact than the generally gloomy Western...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/672871ON WEDNESDAY, the Supreme Court will hear a case brought by Albert Snyder, the father of a young Marine killed in Iraq in 2006, whose funeral was picketed in a despicable display of insensitivity by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. Members of this church say they believe...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/672273SUPPORTERS OF President Obama's strategy in Afghanistan can only be disheartened by the portrait of his administration provided in Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars." By Mr. Woodward's account, many of the president's senior White House advisers believe that the modified counterinsurgency...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/davideskin/645739IN ITS FIRST year, the Obama administration went out of its way to cater to China's communist leadership. It publicly put human rights concerns on a back burner, delayed a presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama and did not press Beijing hard about its currency manipulation. Now it appears that...