US Politics and Current Events

Barack Obama had his Beer Summit.Will they call a meeting between former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Coffee Summit?Such seems possible after Clinton's discussion about Palin with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday's "This Week." In fact, the following exchange seems destined to be quite the water cooler subject in newsrooms all over America in the coming days (video embedded below the fold with...  

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday called Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin idiots.While acting as substitute host for Keith Olbermann on "Countdown," O'Donnell mocked Palin's new book as being an "index and footnote free, score settling campaign memoir" possessing "[no] mind numbing charts or graphs, no big words, no scholarly Latin phrases, like caveat emptor.""And I bet the pictures are, like, amazing," said O'Donnell after claiming Limbaugh...  

By Fred Hiers Staff writer Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin heads a list of three conservative icons who will make The Villages part of their whirlwind book tours during the next two weeks.  

Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life (HarperCollins) is being pitched by her publisher as "one ordinary citizen's extraordinary journey." That's about right. Palin is ordinary -- remarkably, overwhelmingly, mind-numbingly ordinary. Back in the day, it seemed as if she might be extraordinary. When I started writing about her in 2006, the year that Palin took on the good old boys of Alaskan Republican politics, she seemed intriguing...  

As the Obama Administration edges closer to a decision on Afghanistan, we'll talk to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the U.S. plan for troops and whether the President has an exit strategy. United States Secretary of State - United States - Politics - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Society and Culture  

A Blue Star Mom's video letter to Barack Hussein Obama,Obama, if you aren't going to support and back up our Troops, get them out of there. They don't need to be cannon fodder just to feed your inflated ego. Three months and still, no decision and all ideas rejected?Oh, but how I miss George W. Bush.  

Feliz cumpleaños, Gitmo: Eight years ago Friday, then-president George W. Bush signed what we now refer to as Military Order No. 1, thus paving the way for the creation of the Guantanamo Bay prison and for the creative adaptations of international justice codes that supported it.  —KA ProPublica: On Nov. 13, 2001, President George W. Bush signed what has become known as Military Order No. 1 in what he termed a Global War on Terrorism...  

Happy Birthday, Gitmo? Former President George W. Bush signed the order authorizing detention at Guantanamo on November 13, 2001: On Nov. 13, 2001, President George W. Bush signed what has become known as Military Order No. 1 [4] in what he termed a Global War on Terrorism. Without informing his national security adviser, his secretary of state, his chief of staff or his communications director, Bush approved [5] what would appear three...  

Says She Hopes Palin Gets It in Book; Says Palin Has "Massive Appeal," But Says She Doesn't Know if Palin Wants Oval Office Ann Coulter Firebrand conservative commentator Ann Coulter says she hopes Sarah Palin uses her forthcoming book to get "payback" against the McCain campaign for the way it treated Palin, McCain's running mate during the 2008 ...  

RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed moderate Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R-NY) in the NY-23 special election before national conservative leaders — like Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin — forced Scozzafava out in favor of right-wing candidate Doug Hoffman. Following Hoffman’s defeat, Steele struck back at firebrands within his party, telling reporters earlier [...]  

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 11 (IANS) Describing the “safe haven” that Al Qaeda has found in Pakistan as “very troubling”, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the terror group is engaged with the Pakistani Taliban in threatening the state of Pakistan. The US was in Afghanistan “because we believe that we cannot permit the [...]  

Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that. All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in...  

The November 3rd elections were a turning point, swiftly reached. The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama was followed by Tea Parties around the nation that aggregated into the huge September 12 rally in Washington, D.C. And barely two months later, the election of Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey. In Maine, the voters repealed the authorization of same-sex marriage, an anathema as morally debased as abortion. My mind went back...  

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Rush Limbaugh one of the world's worst people Thursday evening for saying that an HBO special about President Barack Obama should get "anal poisoning." In fact, Olbermann noted, Limbaugh has mentioned "anal poisoning" 13 times in the past 2 years. Limbaugh has also referenced "men bending over and grabbing their ankles" 19 [...]  

Japan's foreign minister pressed Sunday for a quick resolution of a dispute over the relocation of a key U.S. Marine base, but also said he would consider options previously rejected by Washington, which could draw out negotiations.