- Pakistan's government seems to be returning to truces to deal with the Taliban, despite the violence perpetrated on the country in the past few years.
- Kenyan troops, in a nominally Kenyan-Somali joint operation, have pushed al-Shabab out of two towns near the Kenyan border.
- The Arab League has decided not to suspend Syria from the group, but instead insisted government and opposition forces meet in Cairo to discuss the situation. The Syrian government has refused. Of note, the Arab League ostracized Qaddafi in Libya and that was largely seen as the moment NATO forces to begin to intervene, so the actions of this body are important to watch.
- In Yemen, violence bubbles up again as pro-Saleh and opposition forces squared off in the capital city of Sanaa.
- The Israel-Hamas prisoner swap is finding many critics in Israel.
Domestic
- President Obama dedicated the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial yesterday, giving a great speech.
- Herman Cain was on Meet the Press yesterday. He managed to talk past 9-9-9 questions, against logical questions. He either would not embrace or was unfamiliar with neoconservatism. And he would not seek a federal ban on same sex marriage, which made Rick Santorum upset on the one hand, but happy to be covered for being upset on the other. **Programming Note: Ben and I will be live blogging the GOP debate tomorrow night.**
- Veterans have trouble finding jobs, in part because employers don't know what their skills translate to in the working world.
- House GOP freshmen struggle to raise money, which (because of money's outsized influence in campaigns) could make the Tea Party insurgency rather brief.
- Checking in with the deficit reduction super committee.
- The St. Louis Cardinals are headed to the World Series. Political significance? None. Significance to your editor? Tons.
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