Happy Valentine’s Day. I’m at halftime of my Uganda journey. My attempts to venture north – far north – into Darfur over the weekend have fallen through. I guess the Ritz Carlton Darfur is fully booked… I may have the opportunity to venture there in April, however. We’ll see. Instead of Darfur, I will spend…

In an exhaustive C-SPAN interview airing this morning (and available online), President Bush discusses Iraq, his presidency, and his legacy. This exchange made me wonder if it was April Fool’s Day yet: Q But I’m talking about ideology. You have Reagan Republicans today. Are there — will there be Bush Republicans, and can you define…

ABC News’ Sonya Crawford reported over the weekend on how hard it was for conservatives to find a candidate for 2008: And as conservatives consider their presidential hopefuls, they’re concerned. None of their frontrunners — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney — are true, purebred…

A couple of memorable snippets from conversations about Sen. Barack Obama with Republican political operatives over the last few days: – “In his high school yearbook he was known as, ‘Barry’ – there is certainly something there to explore. There’s just something wrong with this guy and America is going to find out about it.”…

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