Smart Power Vote Coming Tomorrow in Senate
In its infinite wisdom, the Senate Budget Committee slashed $4.1 billion from President Bush's proposed International Affairs budget. International Affairs, which includes...
Scott Paul
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The Pro-Business President?
The Bush administration has bent over backwards to cater to business interests. At least, that's been my perception from the outside. Last...
New Data Map Bolsters Case for Law of the Sea
NOAA has just gathered new mapping data in the Arctic. As expected, there's a wealth of minerals and resources up there that...
Note From Jackson Hole
I'm taking a long weekend away from the Law of the Sea Convention and other related issues here in Jackson Hole, WY....
The Weekly Gaff: Right-Wing Activists Don’t Understand What Sovereignty Means
In the last week, I've had over ten meetings with Senate staffers on the Law of the Sea Convention (I hope this...
U.S. Climate Policy: Hard or Soft Obstruction
(Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky will lead the U.S. delegation to the UN climate change conference next month in Bali. White...
How Do Americans View the World?
This week, I attended two fascinating briefings on how the American public is thinking about the world. The first was a press...
A Tale of Two Reviews
I have no interest in paying $27 for John Bolton's Surrender is Not an Option, even if he were willing to sign...
The Weekly Gaff and John Warner’s Wisdom
This is the second "Weekly Gaff," a feature inspired by Frank Gaffney, who has engineered a campaign of misinformation in the pages...
The Carbon Tax and a Bloomberg Foreign Policy
It's amazing that what passes for political courage in national politics seems commonsense at the municipal level. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg...
Reject Mukasey
My colleague Howard Salter and I had a funny conversation a couple of weeks ago that evolved into this blog post of...
Inhofe: Retrofitting Unilateralism
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes tomorrow on the Law of the Sea. The Committee is likely to approve the treaty, as...