The Washington Note (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a guest note by British Ambassador to Cuba Dianna Melrose. Contrary to what has been suggested on the Capitol Hill Cubans website, I couldn't agree more with Senator Richard Lugar and Representative Howard Berman's recent assessment that...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Barack Obama has bought himself some time on Afghanistan and lived up to his promise to seek policies that fit into no one's philosophical pigeonholes. He has also split his own party, diminished the enthusiasm of his natural allies, yet earned himself no lasting credit with his domestic adversaries. By these measures, Obama's surge-and-wind-down strategy is both gutsy and politically risky....
Peter Zura's Two-Sevent (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
It's hard to believe, but it has been almost 5 years since the NTP v. RIM case dominated the headlines and became a rallying point for much of the patent reform efforts we have seen to date. In that case, NTP successfully asserted 5 patents against RIM, receiving judgment in the amount of $53.7M, as well as a permanent injunction. The district court stayed the injunction, pending appeal to the Federal...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Practice is Unnecessary, Discourages Program Participation and Wastes Money Following reports that more New Yorkers went hungry in 2008 than the year before, Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and 27 Members of Congress called on Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to end the practice of fingerprinting food stamp applicants....
M E N O R A H (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Sen. Joe Lieberman, former vice presidential candidate, and Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - "nodding their encouragement" at a recent Ramallah press conference, where Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad explained how he was preparing...
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has received prizes in Europe and the United States, backed the lifting of the travel to Cuba ban for U.S. citizens, which was debated yesterday in the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee. In a message to Democratic legislator Howard Berman, Sánchez affirmed that the end of that restriction "could have better results in the democratization...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
California Democrat Howard Berman said he's not particularly exercised over the spat between the ranking Republican on his House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting and retired Gen. Barry McCaffery. McCaffrey took exception to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's aggressive questioning and suggested she not...
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
But not a glove has been landed on the report itself ... It cannot and will not be buried. It will not go away.Col. Desmond Travers, participant in the Goldstone fact-finding missionAnd neither will the analyzes, criticisms and refutations of that very same Goldstone Report--critiques that Col. Travers claims do not exist.Among the sources of analysis online is Understanding The Goldstone Report, which...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The U.S. government has no right to restrict Americans from traveling to Cuba, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Thursday. "It is the only country in the world where our people are not allowed to go," said Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, at the start of a hearing on whether it [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Proponents of lifting the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba will make their case Thursday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<p/> The hearing comes as proponents of greater engagement with Cuba say they've got their best shot at success in years. The panel's chair, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., has already endorsed lifting the ban, calling it a throwback to the ``chilliest periods of the Cold...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A high-octane effort to let U.S. tourists visit Cuba got a major endorsement Thursday from one of the island's leading dissidents, who suggested that ``along with suitcases, Bermuda shorts, and sunblock, support, solidarity, and freedom could come too.'' Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who this week drew the attention of President Barack Obama, wrote in an essay to House Foreign Affairs chairman...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says in an op-ed in today's Herald that the U.S. should allow Americans to travel to Cuba. "U.S. law lets American citizens travel to any country on earth,...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) and House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) have jointly written a compelling case to end the travel ban for all Americans desiring to go to Cuba. In fact, their...
Potomac Flacks (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Rob Sawicki has been hired as Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Sawicki was Senior Director of Communications for the Parkinson’s Action Network. He previously worked for Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), as Staff Assistant, Deputy Press Secretary and Press Secretary. Sawicki also served as the New Mexico Press Secretary for Lieberman’s 2004 presidential campaign. Dan Toffey...
ISRAEL TRUTH TIMES (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
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