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Lunchtime Links

By | 08.04.10 | 12:03 pm

Sarah Palin offers a fiancé-less Bristol relationship advice based in Reagan’s foreign policy.

Democrats stay quiet about the mosque by Ground Zero.

Something — a bomb? fireworks? — targeted Ahmadinejad’s convoy.

Tim Pawlenty wants schools to not “suck.”

Sharron Angle worries More…

Obama Mulls Speech in Muslim Capital

By | 12.04.08 | 2:07 pm

The New York Times reports that President-elect Barack Obama is “considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office,” possibly in Cairo.

As Politico’s Ben Smith points out, this would possibly fulfill an obscure primary campaign pledge More…

A Grand Bargain for U.S and Iran

By | 10.14.08 | 3:26 pm

Just in time for a presidential election in which the economy has overshadowed foreign policy, two former Bush administration aides are calling for a “grand bargain” with Iran.

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, a married couple who served as Iran experts at the National Security Council during George W. More…

NPR Interviews Ahmadinejad

By | 09.22.08 | 6:01 pm

It may be political poison for U.S. government officials to talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the taboo does not extend to NPR.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep interviewed the controversial leader this afternoon in New York and pulled no punches. Ahmadinejad is in the United States to address the More…