UP-FRONT NATURE AND AUDIO NUGGET!
The Hidden Sounds of Bird Song from the radio program, Living on Earth
An amazing story about my favorite song birds, the wood and hermit thrushes. These heralds of spring in northern New England are widely considered some of the finest song birds in the world! Check it out!
Choices or Echoes? The GOP Needs to Change its Thinking on Foreign Policy (Doug Bandow) from the National Interest
This article is ON-TARGET here.
"A number of Republican notables recently began a “listening tour.” At least they seem to recognize the need to transform their fiscal and domestic policies. On foreign policy Republicans appear to be stuck on stupid, as the saying goes."
Philadelphia on the Nile: Handicapping Obama's Egypt Speech (Howard Fineman) from Newsweek
"Now comes the ultimate test of autobiographical speechmaking. Obama this week speaks at Cairo University, in the hub of Muslim-Arab culture. ... On one level, he isn't risking much. After all, George W. Bush set the bar so low. All Obama has to do to be a success is elicit applause—rather than a fusillade of hurled shoes. But he has privately told friends that his goal is far higher: nothing less than to help "reconcile Islam and modernity.""
Addressing Muslim World, Obama Will Face Many Audiences from the McClatchy News Service
"President Barack Obama has a sweeping goal for his speech Thursday in Cairo, Egypt: to begin remaking the dynamic between the United States and Muslims abroad."
Obama's Speech in Cairo: Getting the Right Audience from the Guardian [of London]
"Typically for a man with unbounded ambition, Mr Obama has made little secret about the size of the audience he seeks to address - one billion Muslims. But surely just as important as the numbers is the issue of who among them will listen. That is an even more daunting task. "
Obama's Message: I Have a Dream for Islam (Andrew Sullivan) from the Times [of London]
"It is, almost certainly, the most important speech of his presidency. On Thursday Barack Obama will address the Muslim world from Cairo University. And no one quite knows what he is going to say."
Envoy to Visit Syria as Obama Ups Detente from the Financial Times [of London]
"Barack Obama is set to send his Middle East envoy to Syria in the most concrete sign yet of rapprochement between Washington and Damascus."
Obama Pivots Pragmatic, Anything but Bush Gone (David Paul Kuhn) from Real ClearPolitics
"The illusions appear gone. On the world stage, the idealistic candidate has become the pragmatic president. George W. Bush took five years to pivot away from neo-conservative idealism. Obama has turned away from his tepid idealism in a matter of months."
Obama to Announce New Gay Agenda in June from the Philadelphia Examiner
"The Obama administration is expected to announce a package of pro-gay initiatives next month, but what it will say is the stuff of mass speculation."
Reagan Did It (Paul Krugman) from the New York Times
"For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes that the key wrong turn — the turn that made crisis inevitable — took place in the early 1980s, during the Reagan years."
The GOP's Purity Problem from the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times
"So Republicans interested in self-preservation would seem wiser to heed the appeal for inclusiveness. But big-tent politics by both parties serves an interest larger than membership; it's good for the polity as a whole. Parties that must rely on voters with a range of views will be less in thrall to ideological interest groups. "
POTENTIAL BOOK NUGGET!
From the Huffington Post, an excerpt from Renegade: The Making of a President about the Obama administration's decision to select Hilary as Secretary of State. It COULD be quite interesting.
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