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  1. The Contingency

    Persuasiveness and Iraq

    By Barry Barnett

    Blawgletter tries to avoid political stuff.  We have enough challenges attempting to understand law stuff.  But we couldn't help observing yesterday how much the persuasiveness of the administration's case for…

  2. The Right Coast

    Princeton tiger in Iraq Tom Smith

    By Thomas A. Smith

    This is pretty impressive.  A sophomore at Princeton in ROTC is visiting the troops in Iraq and blogging about it.  Princeton just went up in my book by several notches.

  3. The Right Coast

    General PetraeusMike Rappaport

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Some interesting information about General Petraeus in Peggy Noonan's most recent column.  First, his background: Gen. Petraeus graduated from West Point in 1974, 10th in his class, and his career…

  4. The Right Coast

    The NYT’s Iraq Editorial, annotated Tom Smith

    By Thomas A. Smith

    I like to mark up editorials, and the NYT always provides rich pickens.July 8, 2007EditorialThe Road Home     It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any…

  5. ImmigrationProf Blog

    Survey Request: Top Three Foreign Policy Issues

    By immigrationprof

    From: Bonnie Jenkins, Program OfficerUS Foreign and Security PolicyThe Ford FoundationI know that many of your organizations have been giving much thought to the issues you would like to see…

  6. The Right Coast

    Gordon Brown’s Foreign PolicyMaimon Schwarzschild

    By Thomas A. Smith

    This doesn't bode well.

  7. Real Lawyers Have Blogs

    New British Foreign Secretary a blogger

    By Kevin O'Keefe

    With yesterday's change in Prime Minister from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown, Britian's Foreign Secretary will become David Miliband. Mildiband is a blogger. He's been blogging as Secretary of State…

  8. The Right Coast

    Peggy Noonan says it Tom Smith

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Peggy Noonan in the WSJ Opinion Journal pretty much says it all:The beginning of my own sense ofseparation from the Bush administration came in January 2005, when thepresident declared that…

  9. ImmigrationProf Blog

    Immigrant of the Day: Henry Kissinger

    By immigrationprof

    Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born American diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later…

  10. The Right Coast

    Fred Thompson on IsraelMike Rappaport

    By Thomas A. Smith

    This looks good.  He really gets it: Let me ask you a hypothetical question. Whatdo you think America would do if Canadian soldiers were firing dozensof missiles every day into…