MUSIC TO MY EARS… From the Reuters blog: “During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama –a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in…

CLUSTER BOMB BREAKTHROUGH…. Gordon Brown hasn’t had a great couple of months, but he showed some backbone today and greatly improved prospects for an international ban on cluster bombs. In a major diplomatic defeat for the U.S., Britain broke ranks…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PSI!….In an article less tinged with snark than usual, Dana Milbank critiques National Security Advisor Steven Hadley’s appearance at the fifth anniversary celebration of President Bush’s Proliferation Security Initiative. This is one of the administration’s initiatives designed to…

WARMING TO THE LAW OF THE SEA VIA THE ARCTIC?….The United States joined four other countries that border the Arctic Sea in Ilulissat, Greenland, this week to work out ways to deal with the Arctic’s growing accessibility as the ice…

TIME OUT….Harumpf. Kevin said we could post photos, but I don’t see any way of doing that. What I was going to say was that I’m getting a bit tired of nuclear weapons and treaties and all that, but the…

BOLD, PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP… Ask John McCain the one issue where he would separate himself from the President and he almost always answers “climate change.” Rhetorically speaking, he has staked out a position that global warming is real and man-made and…

TURNABOUT, FAIR PLAY, ETC…. It’s about time somebody slammed Howard Kurtz for his multiple conflicts of interest. His interview with CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier when his wife is the publicist for her book is one thing (he disclosed this at…

A guest post from Washington Monthly founding editor Charles Peters: First primary of 2012 — October 31, 2011 The New Hampshire primary used to be in March. The present chaotic race to earlier and earlier primaries is a recent development,…

GOOD NEWS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY…. I know Kevin has been following the California same-sex marriage issue after the state Supreme Court tossed out Prop. 22. He’s been gaming out scenarios for public support, and now we have enough data from…

NO THANKS, WE’VE GOT ONE ALREADY…A League of Democracies, that is. John McCain and others frustrated by the need to do diplomacy and work with other countries keep putting forth the idea of a League of Democracies. That would be…