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  • We've Brought 'Change' to Our Military Mission in Afghanistan -- Now What?

    Published May 13, 2009

    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is very adept at the mechanics and politics of running organizations, whether the CIA or the Defense Dept. He is essentially reading the tea leaves with this change in command -- Afghanistan is a mucky mess and the administration needs to show they are serious and involved in charting the course of the war over the next few years.

  • Mike Baker's The People's Weekly Brief: Obama and Medvedev's Secret Romance

    Published March 05, 2009

    Loyal readers of The People's Weekly Brief will know that every week we gather around the pool table at the PWB headquarters to spin the Wheel of Gloom. This clever time saving device -- custom built some time ago by Bobo the talking intern -- ensures that we can cut out all that useless yammerin' about topic selection and spend more time pumping money into the economy via Buzzy's beer redistribution program.

  • Leon Panetta? Say It Ain't So

    Published January 07, 2009

    Color me underwhelmed by Barack Obama's decision to make Leon Panetta the next director of the CIA.

  • $25B Auto Bailout Would Be Band-Aid On Chest Wound

    Published November 18, 2008

    If you think big business is best managed and overseen by politicians with no business experience, then the bailout, particularly the bailout of the auto industry, must seem like a pretty good idea.

  • Economic Crisis Shouldn't Be About Who's Ahead in the Polls

    Published September 30, 2008

    The normal amount of partisan poo-flinging that we could have expected from this situation has been amplified into a crapfest of monumental proportions.

  • Relations With Latin America Go South

    Published September 23, 2008

    A failure to allocate significant resources and attention to our relationships with the countries of Latin America has left the U.S. in the lurch.

  • Georgia on My Mind

    Published August 19, 2008

    Apparently, sensing that the PWB was off duty, Russia took the opportunity to invade a neighbor.

  • It's Tough to Get Pakistan to Commit

    Published July 29, 2008

    At the point where the Taliban and Al Qaeda presence threatens to destabilize Pakistan, that’s when we’ll see a significant response.

  • Mike Baker: Same Old Politics

    Published July 02, 2008

    Enough with the new political landscape and the change and the moony-eyed what-a-breath-of-fresh-air crapfest.

  • Mike Baker: Pitchforks and Energy Policy

    Published June 24, 2008

    We must press officials for action on a comprehensive energy plan and then jab them with pitchforks ... just kidding about pitchforks.