GovExec.com is reporting that Foreign Service Officers — the folks who work for the State Department at embassies around the world — are upset over a new policy that would force them to serve in Iraq:
Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department’s decision to force foreign service officers to […]

It’s a pissing contest to see who South Carolina’s favorite son really is! As CNN reports:
Comedian Stephen Colbert brought his mock presidential campaign to the capital of South Carolina Sunday, where he was declared “favorite son” by the mayor of Columbia and given the key to the city.
Colbert, a native of Charleston, told the raucous […]

Captain Bill Putnam, an Army Reserve intelligence officer, suggests in the Small Wars Journal that soccer may be an effective strategy for building national unity in Iraq, a prerequisite for American withdrawal:
Soccer is Iraq’s only true national sport. The passion it generates is twice that of the Super Bowl or the College Football national championship. […]

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has accused Britain of not doing enough to fight international terrorism, which he says could take 20 or 30 years to beat.
[Hotel Tango: Foreign Policy Passport]

What if only poor people were allowed to vote? Or only middle-income? Or just the rich?
Well, the 2004 election would have looked something like this:

[Hotel Tango: Crooked Timber]

The conservative Lone Star Times is reporting that presidential hopeful Ron Paul has received campaign donations from the white supremacist movement.
The LST, which I’m certain I’d never agree with otherwise, has been digging up information on the donations, the Web site owned by the contributor, Don Black, and a bunch of other facts that show […]

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that [Stephen] Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office.
The result is similar when Fred Thompson […]

A new poll looks at the support for Stephen Colbert’s faux presidential campaign among Democrats and Republicans:
Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, recently completed a national poll of 1,000 likely 2008 voters that included Colbert’s name in both the GOP and Democratic primaries. (He has announced his plans to run in both the Democratic […]

PolitiFact.com from the St. Petersburg Times examines politician’s statements and ranks them on their truth-o-meter. Here’s a great Huckabee quote from the last Republican debate in Orlando that got a “Pants on fire!” rating from PolitiFact.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were “brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.”
Politifact’s conclusion?
We’d […]

Here’s the CIA’s new anti-terrorist logo:

I sincerely hope they didn’t hand over millions of dollars to a marketing/design firm to develop that.