So Much For Small Government

Is anyone surprised that it took mere days before the 112th Congress showed their true colors? The House Republicans’ first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing. A House panel chaired by Rep. F. James ...

Was Condoleezza Rice’s State Dept. Behind Egyptian Uprising?

The Telegraph reported Friday that President Bush’s State Department was secretly providing support to a “leading figure” behind the uprising in Egypt as early as 2008. The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while...

Egypt is not Poland

So I am in San Francisco right now and have to be ready for a meeting in a few minutes, but I just wanted to get some quick thoughts out about what is going on in the middle east right now. My big worry with this is that while this is a good wake up call for for the totalitarian governments of the Arab...

Gay Rights Activist Murdered in Uganada

This is going to be a very large news day due to protests spreading like wildfire in the middle east, but I want to take a moment to post this story by the BBC about the murder of a prominent gay activist who was murdered in Uganda.  David Kato, an activist who was publicly outed in Uganda’s Rolling...

What Was Missing in SOTU

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s former national security adviser, made a very good point on Morning Joe this morning about the content of the State of the Union. He noted that while almost all parts of the world that American foreign policy focuses on (Iraq, Afganistan, China, Pakistan,...