Keith Pavlischek

We all know that President Obama held a three-hour meeting at the White House yesterday on the situation in Afghanistan. The spinning has begun inside the beltway. The Washington Post leads with ” White House Eyeing Narrower War Effort: Top Officials Challenge General’s Assessment . . . . Continue Reading »

On Wednesday, according to a Washington Post article, ” Students, Supporters Rally to Save Vouchers “, former House Minority Leader John A Boehner (R—Ohio) joined D.C. council member Marion Barry and others at the Capitol in support of the D.C. school voucher program. The federally . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s the latest fundraising letter from Jim Wallis and the folks at Sojourners: The echoes are reverberating. After a week of “Tell the Truth” e-mails to share the real stories of health-care reform with media shock jocks, we’re still hearing the echoes of the 100,000-plus . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post has treated us to three op-eds by four authors in two days each advocating that the U.S. make concerted effort to pressure Iran on the issue of human rights. Today, Robert Kagan argues in ” Forget the Nukes: The Most Fruitful Target is Iran’s Weakening Regime . . . . Continue Reading »

The incivility and name-calling by the talking heads and others on the right has to stop. In a short six paragraph article of 442 words, they managed to call President Obama and his White House aides liars and cowards, and the American Civil Liberties Union others in the “civil liberties . . . . Continue Reading »

Howard L. Berman is a Democratic Congressman and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In an editorial,” Dealing With Iran’s Deception “, Berman informs us that Congress has to get moving to impose, should negotiations fail, what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has . . . . Continue Reading »

The headline from the front page of yesterday’s Washington Post reads ” Less Peril for Civilians, but More for Troops .” The opening paragraphs summarize the issue: Concern is rising in Congress and among military families over a sharp increase in U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at National Review , Nina Shea notes that Yale University is scheduled to host Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who drew the iconic caricature of Muhammad wearing a turban-bomb. “The invitation to Westergaard” comments Shea, “is no doubt a response to the backlash that . . . . Continue Reading »

Before everyone gets tired of “playing the race card” game with Jimmy Carter, it might be worth noting that even though over fifty-four percent of the population of Washington, D.C. is African American, the white minority is not all that anxious to let the black folks vote on a . . . . Continue Reading »

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American. That of course, is former President Jimmy Carter playing the race card-—bigtime! Not just an extreme fringe mind . . . . Continue Reading »