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We've begun making arrangements for next summer's collegians leadership summit. Put the dates July 9 and 10 on your calendar and start planning to come to Washington DC. The Heritage Institute will host us in their beautiful auditorium and the Leadership Institute's dorms will house those on a budget. We make scholarships available as in previous years - check out our scholarship page for a description. Deadline TBA.

On October 13, Ruth and I attended Strobe Talbott's lecture at Washington University Law.  He gave a very polished (best powerpoint I've ever seen, and well rehearsed) presentation titled "The Great Experiment: The Old World Order, the New World Order, and the Next World Order."

The short, short version of his presentation was that in order to solve problems like nuclear proliferation and global warming, we need international agreements.  If one arranges the countries of the world such that it's reasonable to draw circles for international treaties around the countries involved, you get a mess of circles and countries placed here and there.  This "globomess" (his term, not mine) supposedly does a good job of getting countries to work together enough to solve the big problems.

John Schlafly reminds me that in the past, Talbott has supported smaller international treaties as a step towards a single world government.  I expect he hasn't really changed his mind, just his tactics.