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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_27_06_MB.html Michael Barrone from US News and World Report writes about the Bush foreign policy. Has it veered off course? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022601263.html Henry Kissinger writes about what Hamas must do in order to survive. The image of Ariel Sharon lying comatose in an Israeli hospital has a haunting quality. There is the poignancy of the warrior who fought -- occasionally ruthlessly -- in... Sign in to see full entry.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_24_06_CK.html In this nostalgic reach back a hundred years Krauthammer puts into perspective the Dubai deal. Why are forced to deal with the wider world in this way? We have inherited it from the British. http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/60262.htm In this article Podhorst describes the nadir of the Bush legacy. Very bad! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_24_06_RNJ.html Ruben Navarrette wants to plead that... Sign in to see full entry.

Asaad Muhsin/Associated Press A badly damaged Sunni mosque in Baghdad. An attack on a Shiite shrine on Wednesday set off a spasm of sectarian revenge in Iraq. source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/international/middleeast/24mosque.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin Sign in to see full entry.

All Bush's Fault? The conventional wisdom on the Dubai Ports World deal seems to have shifted in the last 24 hours. In the blogosphere the focus has jumped from its initial target -- the agreement itself -- to a new and familiar one: President Bush. For instance, Glenn Reynolds has decided: I don't think there's any real security issue here, but I think the Bush Administration needs to launch a full-bore effort to explain what's actually going on, something that they still haven't really... Sign in to see full entry.

http://www.slate.com/id/2136720/ Photograph of Condoleezza Rice by Salah Malkawi/ Getty Images I disagree with the premise that offering satellite TV, improving open radio, and generally disseminating world news is counter-productive. It was the very thing that brought down the "Iron Curtain". And as for the question, why would Condi admit publically that the U.S. government is funding subversives? Easy. We tell the truth and walk tall. -- kingmi If the idea is really to help overthrow the... Sign in to see full entry.

Source: http://www.vote.com/magazine/columns/dickmorris/column60379409.phtml By DICK MORRIS February 13, 2006 -- GOP ATTACK COULD BE CRIPPLING. The most effective attacks in politics are those that stop your opponent from campaigning in his or her usual style. When Democrats called Richard Nixon "negative" in the run-up to the 1960 presidential, it made it much more difficult for him to wage the type of slash-and-burn campaign that had animated his past races. When Republicans called Bill... Sign in to see full entry.

Supporters of Pakistan's religious party Jamat-e-Islami (Party of Islam) pray during their rally to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006 on a bridge in Attock near Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) ABC News online is reporting that http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1638419 the US Embassy was under attack for a time in Indonesia. These cartoon protests are to blame. Now in case no one else has noticed, there are... Sign in to see full entry.

Charles reveals here a side of himself that either I never knew, or had forgotten. He states that as a psychiatrist, he had monitored group therapy session for inpatient schizphrenics, that were more peaceful than the White House briefing, where Scott McClelland was asked "would this have been more serious had the man died?" I always considered Krauthammer the highest IQ on TV, but I had forgotten that. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_17_06_CK.html Do you notify the national... Sign in to see full entry.

We are led to believe that the White House Press Corps have an inalienable right to this information. If they do not get what they want when they want it, then they turn nothing into something scandalous. -- kingmi source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_16_06_TS.html NBC White House correspondent David Gregory was shouting at White House press secretary Scott McClellan, as if Mr. Gregory's Constitutional rights were being violated. It was a classic example of a special... Sign in to see full entry.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_15_06_TB.html We are reminded to pay attention to a few of the pressing news stories of the day -- or not! •Iran's nuclear weapons development crisis, •the election of Hamas terrorists in Palestine, •ongoing worldwide Muslim riots and killing in reaction to a cartoon, •Al Gore's near sedition while speaking in Saudi Arabia, •the turning over of our East Coast ports to be managed by a United Arab Emirates firm, •the criminal leaking of... Sign in to see full entry.