Samuel Knight

House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers was on “Face the Nation” this morning, throwing around what President Obama might term “loose talk” about possible U.S. intervention in Syria. The Michigan Republican warned Sunday there’s ‘mounting evidence’ that the Syrian government has been using its chemical arsenal. Via POLITICO: “I think when you look at the […]

I suspect this story will affect the region quite substantially as it develops: former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has returned from self-imposed exile in Dubai. According to the Guardian, he is “seeking a possible political comeback in defiance of judicial investigations and death threats from Taliban militants.” Security forces whisked away Musharraf in a convoy […]

New York Mayor and gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg said that he will fund ad campaigns in 2014 against senators who oppose an assault weapons ban and stronger background checks on firearms purchases. “I think my money would be well spent,” he said on “Meet The Press.” NRA president Wayne LaPierre, who appeared on the […]

*John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Baghdad today. He reportedly asked Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to stem an alleged flow of weapons, via Iraqi airspace, from Iran to government forces in Syria. According to the Washington Post, American claims are based on “the sheer volume of flights crossing Iraq.” An official who spoke […]

Heeding my call to bombard their inbox, WaMo commenters have stuck it to “Fix The Debt.” Frequent commenter “c u n d gulag” unleashed a “massive word turd” on them. Here are some glorious excerpts: how does the debt you’re talking about effect me? Well, it effects me because people like you folks, at your […]

*Conservative West Viriginia Democrat Joe Manchin is in talks with the NRA to explore how the Senate might be able to pass tougher background check laws. According to POLITICO “if the NRA stays neutral and decides not to ‘score’ a vote for a Manchin plan on its annual scorecard, Manchin — and the overall bill […]

Here’s a story that’s bound to turn some heads in Washington: oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a Russian exile and adversary of Vladimir Putin, has died in London. According to the Guardian, insiders believe that Berezovsky committed suicide. The circumstances of his death were unclear, although there were unconfirmed claims that the former power-broker of Russian politics […]

“Fix The Debt” – the astroturf, defense contractor-linked lobbying group seizing upon the manufactured debt crisis to ram through a corporate agenda at the expense of everyone else – is asking Americans to share stories about how the national debt is affecting them. No, really: Why is it so important that we Fix the Debt? […]

John Kerry faces a tough task as he shuffles between Amman and Jerusalem today in a bid to kickstart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The Secretary of State is asking Palestinian National Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to return to negotiations while refusing to publicly demand that the Israeli government stop its ethnic cleansing. As the New York […]

Happy Saturday, y’all. Here are some note-worthy stories: *The Senate (kind of, sort of) passed a budget for the first time in four years in the wee hours of the morning, after a “vote-a-rama.” As POLITICO’s Ginger Gibson explained, the budget vote was non-binding, and “therefore none of the passed amendments will likely carry the […]