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John Edwards and the American Dream

By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 6:40am |
I like John Edwards a great deal and, as I have said, am leaning towards voting for him in the primaries. Something he said last night in response to a Charlie Rose question on the Yahoo/Huffington/Slate Democratic candidate mashup bothers...

re artappraiser's challenge, thoughts on a forward-looking agenda

By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 3:54pm |
In Matt Y's first response to Todd Gitlin's post on his Bulldozers and Big Tent book, artappraiser asks Matt for his forward agenda, if he's not fully pleased with Todd's: http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/bookclub/2007/sep/04/how_big_a_tent#comment-... She didn't ask me, but I'll pitch in my...

Working the Election Integrity Beat: The Brad Blog

By AmericanDreamer on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 12:41pm |
Check out The Brad Blog: http://www.bradblog.com/ Just discovered this. Looks like an important source of independent information for those of us interested in monitoring what's going on and helping the election integrity cause....

The Foreign Policy Disconnect--a request of management

By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 5:25am |
Dear Josh, Andy and fellow cafe denizens: The topic of the alleged disconnect between the foreign policy community and the public is getting a lot of attention lately, here, and at Yglesias and Greenwald as examples. I'd like to request...

Questions for Dean Slaughter

By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 3:21pm |
Spurred by recent posts by Anne-Marie Slaughter and comments by denizens, I went back and reviewed the Princeton Project on National Security's report, "Forging a World of Liberty Under Law," co-authored by Anne-Marie and John Ikenberry. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/ppns/report/FinalReport.pdf I will stipulate...

The End of Iraq, by Peter Galbraith

By AmericanDreamer on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 7:34am |
Highly recommended. This is the smartest analysis I've seen. Galbraith, another of JK Galbraith's sons, offers not only well-informed, biting criticism but thoughts on where to go from here: essentially, to gradually withdraw troops everywhere except perhaps in Kurdistan, where,...

Choice snippets from The Ugly American

By AmericanDreamer on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 1:56pm |
(from the book, written in 1958, not the far inferior movie, where the Ambassador MacWhite character played by Brando is not much like the Ambassador MacWhite portrayed in the book) pp. 108-109, Philippine Minister of Defense Magsaysay to Ambassador MacWhite:...

Movie rec: "Half Nelson"

By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 6:04am |
In portraying a caring, unorthodox, in many ways effective inner-city high school history teacher with a drug problem, Ryan Gosling does about as good a job of acting as anyone I've seen in a long time. He completely sold that...

Leaving (soon) on a Jet Plane

By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 10/13/2006 - 1:01pm |
Next month my wife and I are moving ourselves and our two kids to Tbilisi in the country of Georgia for around 20 months. Folks here know that country has been in the news a bit lately, with last weekend's...

Robert Kagan (today's WashPost): "More Leaks, Please"

By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 09/26/2006 - 9:58am |
From Kagan's column, the first sentence reads: "It's too bad we won't get to see the full National Intelligence Estimate on 'Trends in Global Terrorism' selectively leaked to The Post and the New York Times last week. Indeed. Out with...

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