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Considering all the Islamic kissing that the White House, Department of Justice and the State Department have been doing, she might as well get it over with and convert. Muslim or not, the results will be the same. Muslims of Kazan will offer Hillary Clinton to adopt Islam Moscow, October 13, Interfax - Muslims of Tatarstan intend to offer USA State Secretary Hillary Clinton to adopt Islam during her visit to Kazan.

MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday unveiled a statue of U.S. poet Walt Whitman at a new monument at Moscow State University in Russia. Noting the Whitman statue was a response to the statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin placed on the campus of George Washington University in Washington 10 years ago, Clinton compared Whitman's 19th century poetic accomplishments to modern relations between Russia and the United States. "Just as Pushkin and Whitman reset poetry, we are resetting our relationship for the 21st century," Clinton said while flanking Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and...

The time has not yet come for more sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday. At a joint press conference in Moscow, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said sanctions now would be counterproductive. Mr Lavrov said every effort should be made to deal with Iran using diplomatic means. Mrs Clinton said the U.S. agreed it was important to pursue diplomacy with Iran. But she kept the way open for sanctions further down the line. 'At the same time that we are very vigorously pursuing this track, we are aware that we might...

Washington will tone down its criticism of Russia's human rights record in order to win Kremlin backing for possible sanctions against Iran, it has been claimed. It is the latest in a number of concessions the US has made to Moscow in order to improve relations and encourage co-operation on international issues. The plan emerged as Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited Russia to discuss a range of issues including Iran's rogue nuclear programme. Mrs Clinton's trip was part of what Washington is calling a "reset" with Moscow, a new more constructive relationship with the Kremlin that President...

Two days ago, there were indications that Russia was leaning toward supporting the U.S. in dealing with Iran. Hillary Clinton proclaimed that Russia might be coming around to the U.S. position on sanctions. Clinton, meanwhile, also said that the U.S. didn't ask the Russians for any firm commitments. Then, yesterday the Russians poured cold water on any idea that they would support sanctions. Russia pushed back Tuesday at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful, a setback to the Obama administration's desire to present a united front with Moscow. After...

  In that passage from Orthodoxy so familiar that it is almost now cliché, G. K. Chesterton wrote that there are a thousand angles at which a man may fall but only one at which he stands. By this he argued for the unique, enduring character of orthodox Church doctrine, of the one, true, upstanding strand of Right Teaching. Though the same tired heresies may reappear to contest it -- mutated, renamed, warmed-over -- the old, wild truth remains standing, "reeling but erect."   This well-worn lesson takes on a new freshness, I think, when applied to the culture...

Oh dear, after all the hard work the Obama administration has put in trying to build better relations with Moscow it seems the Russians just don’t want to play ball. When American President Barack Obama last month unilaterally cancelled the planned missile defence sheild for East Europe, he did so in the expectation that Moscow would reciprocate by backing Washington’s attempts to pressure Iran into giving up its controversial nuclear programme. But as Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Secretary of State, has discovered during her visit to Moscow, the Russians are just not prepared to play ball. Rather than backing Mrs...

Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday sought to present a united front with Russia on the Iranian nuclear crisis, saying there was not yet any hurry for new sanctions against Tehran. On her first trip to Russia as chief US diplomat, Clinton praised Moscow for its "extremely cooperative" behaviour in the standoff over Iran's programme, which Western nations fear is a veiled attempt to build a nuclear bomb. Aides had said ahead of her visit that the trip was partly aimed at winning Russian support for eventual sanctions against Tehran if diplomacy did not work. But Clinton denied...

In the middle of a diplomatic mission through Europe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines at home this morning when she closed the door on another bid for the presidency. In an interview on the "Today" show, Ann Curry asked if Clinton ever wishes she, rather than Barack Obama, was setting U.S. policy as the commander-in-chief. "I have to tell you," Clinton said, "it never crosses my mind." Curry followed up, "Will you ever run for president again?" "No," Clinton said. "No?" "No, no" Clinton insisted, laughing. "This is a great job. It is a 24-7 job. And I'm...

In a black BMW outside a chalet-style hotel in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used high-drama cellphone diplomacy to clinch a historic Armenian-Turkish deal. "There were several times when I said to all of the parties involved that 'this is too important, this has to be seen through, you have come too far,'" the chief US diplomat recalled afterward on the plane from Zurich to London.

THIRTEEN CARS and three buses wound their way to Farmleigh and another piece of history was made as the first US secretary of state to make a dedicated visit to Ireland emerged from an armoured 07 BMW. She came dressed in a royal blue “pantsuit”, feminised with a ruffle, a large silver necklace and black kitten heels, none of which detracted from that formidable gaze as she and the Taoiseach swapped diplomatic phrases under a lowering sky.

Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize is snub to Bill Clinton Many feel that Bill Clinton, right, deserves the prize more than Obama Christina Lamb Although the award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama was widely interpreted as a repudiation of the Republican era of George W Bush, the real snub may have been to Bill Clinton. The former Democratic president is widely held to be overdue for the prize. He helped to promote peace in Northern Ireland and devoted more time to achieving a Middle East deal than any other president, although the effort was unsuccessful. Since...

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Former United States President Bill Clinton, right, jokes with basketball great Michael Jordan during a team photo session for the Presidents Cup golf competition Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, in San Francisco. Jordan is on hand as a guest of U.S. captain Fred Couples.

I've got to say, even for the Obama administration, this is a real shocker. The Clinton State Department has decided to cut off all funding for the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), which was compiling lists of protestors imprisoned in this summer's unrest, as well as those who were killed in the crackdown. IHRDC is what human-rights advocates should be: methodical, precise, and apolitical in their work. And yet, the Obama administration has, without explanation, cut off all federal funding to the group which has consistently fulfilled its mandate. Anyone, across the political spectrum who has any interest in...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-Former U.S. President Bill Clinton's endorsement of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for California governor won't likely hurt his rival Attorney General Jerry Brown's campaign, a leading analyst said Tuesday. On Monday, the former president in Los Angeles endorsed Newsom in the 2010 Democratic primary for governor. In making his endorsement, Clinton did not mention Brown, whom he had battled for the 1992 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination.

<p>Because it's Monday and everyone needs a lift, consider this high-flying historic parachute moment - a recent tandem airborne jump from 12,500 feet above Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., by U.S. Army Sgt. Chris Lalonde; his military working dog, Sgt. Maj. Fasco; and civilian jumpmaster Kirby Rodriguez. The three-way jump from that altitude was a first.</p>

Hurdles Remain on Climate Change GoalsBy Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 5, 2009 Like most members of President Obama's climate team, David Sandalow was one of President Bill Clinton's negotiators in Kyoto. And he carries an indelible lesson from the experience of signing off on the international climate pact there 12 years ago: "Only agree abroad to what you can implement at home." He had been elated at the deal by more than 180 nations in December 1997. But within months, a television ad appeared, decrying the agreement for not including developing nations such as China and...

It's not surprising that the left has trotted out one of its stock phrases to pass the buck about President Obama's failures. There's no vast right wing anything. The only thing that is "vast" is the list of excuses from liberals.Somewhere in our office at the Media Research Center in Washington are the old bumper stickers proclaiming: "Proud Member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy." They are relics of another time, when Bill Clinton was president, his wife Hillary had shown her political acumen doing the health care amateur hour and the White House needed someone to blame for the...

As America’s first female secretary of state, she was known as a tough bargainer who brooked no nonsense as she travelled the world, facing down despots such as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il. But Madeleine Albright has revealed that she had an unexpected diplomatic tool — costume jewellery. She began using brooches in 1994 after the Gulf war when the Iraqi press referred to her as “an unparalleled serpent”. Then US ambassador to the United Nations, she responded by wearing a golden brooch depicting a coiled snake to her next meeting with the Iraqis. “I didn’t consider the gesture a...

When Bill and Hillary first got married Bill said, “I am putting a box under the bed. You must promise never to look in it.” In all their 30 years of marriage, Hillary never looked. However, on the afternoon of their 30th anniversary, curiosity got the best of her and she lifted the lid and peeked inside. In the box were 3 empty beer cans and $81,874.25 in cash. She closed the box and put it back under the bed. Now that she knew what was in the box, she was doubly curious as to why there even was such...

Bill Clinton, UN special envoy to Haiti and former US President, holds a piece made of pressed garbage to be used as fuel during an IBD international business meeting in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. Clinton and a trade delegation of at least 200 businessmen arrived to encourage a trade and investment mission in Haiti. Former President Bill Clinton holds a piece of charcoal made from saw dust to heat and cook food as he speaks about Haiti during the Americas Conference in Coral Gables Fla, Tuesday Sept 29, 2009. Days before he leads a trade delegation to Haiti to...

Both Jews and Muslims celebrated holidays in September 2009. However, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem – America's representative in Israel's capital – chose to focus entirely on Islam this year, while ignoring the Jewish holidays of Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur completely. The Consulate's website features Eid il-Fitr greetings from U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Consul General Daniel Rubinstein. Its staff was involved in Ramadan celebrations in Jenin and Shechem, and hosted a meal in Jericho for the Muslim holiday of Iftar. Clinton's greeting was published on September 19 – the first day of...

Senate foreign relations committee Chairman John Kerry and the State Department have canceled Sen. Jim DeMint's plans to meet interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti on Friday. The trip, which DeMint was going to make with three members of the House, would have flouted a White House ban against direct contact with the leaders of the June military coup. While the White House seeks to pressure the interim government through isolation, DeMint and other conservatives have defended the coup, which the Honduran miltary claims was necessary to prevent then-President Manuel Zelaya from rewriting the country's constitution. DeMint, R-S.C., and his fellow...

In a PBS interview on Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's detailed assessment of the situation in Afghanistan. "I respect that because clearly he is the commander on the ground," she said, "but I can only tell you there are other assessments from very expert military analysts who have worked in counterinsurgencies that are the exact opposite." She said the administration's goal "is to take all of this incoming data and sort it out." We aren't sure what the secretary of state means by "the exact opposite" of Gen. McChrystal's assessment. He concluded that...

Washington, DC…This is a status update on the loss of an external hard drive containing copies of Clinton Administration Executive Office of the President (EOP) data. The external hard drive includes some personally identifying information (PII) of persons who may have worked in the Clinton Executive Office of the President, visited the White House complex, or just submitted PII to the White House (e.g., resumes). The National Archives recently sent notification letters to approximately 15,750 individuals whose names and social security numbers are on the hard drive that is missing from the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland. The...

Note: The following text is a quote: Norman Hsu Found Guilty of Violating the Federal Election Campaign Act NEW YORK—Lev L. Dassin, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Norman Hsu was found guilty today on all four counts in the superseding indictment charging him with violating the Federal Election Campaign Act by making contributions to various political campaigns in the names of others. Hsu was found guilty following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan federal court. The evidence at trial established that every year from 2004 through...

NEW YORK – Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud by manipulating the political process in a way that "strikes at the very core of our democracy." U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero sentenced the 58-year-old Hsu to 20 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking campaign finance laws. In a lengthy criticism of Hsu's fraud, the judge said the former fundraiser used political...

In a Meet the Press interview with Bill Clinton on September 27, NBC's David Gregory seemed to assume as accepted fact that the only way to fix healthcare was for Americans to "pay higher taxes." He also asked the former chief executive if the "vast right wing conspiracy" that his wife bemoaned in 1998 was now in high gear attacking President Obama. During the interview, Gregory brought up the "big challenges" that Obama was facing, particularly with the healthcare issue. In his question, though, Gregory did not phrase his healthcare question by using qualifiers like "Obama says," or "Democrats claim."...

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the feisty ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee has written to the Secretary of State calling on her to cancel $2.5 million in State Department Economic Support Funds for Libya, of which $400,000 is earmarked for foundations run by the Gaddafi family. Ros-Lehtinen’s memo to Clinton follows a letter last week by Congressman Mark Steven Kirk (a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee) to the White House urging the president to intervene. Here is her statement in full: “Although this money was provided by Congress to promote democracy and human rights in Libya, the Administration has...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) reaches in to kiss his wife, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, September 25, 2009. About 1,200 participants including heads of state, business leaders, humanitarians and celebrities will attend the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) which started on Tuesday.

Bill Clinton was on Meet the Press once again talking about a vast right wing conspiracy. Oh, you bet. Sure it is. It's not as strong as it was, because America has changed demographically. But it's as virulent as it was. I mean, they're saying things about him. You know, it's like when they accused me of murder, and all that stuff they did. … But … it's not really good for the Republicans and the country, what's going on now. I mean, they may be hurting President Obama. They can take his numbers down. They can run his opposition...

Iran said it test-fired short-range missiles in a show of force Sunday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the country would have to prove it is not developing nuclear weapons or face more sanctions. Clinton, in an appearance taped Friday for CBS' "Face the Nation," said that the revelation of a nuclear facility near the holy city of Qom just raised additional suspicions about the intent of the Iranians' nuclear program. "We believe that it is a covert facility designed for uranium enrichment," she said. Clinton stressed that answers were needed by Iran in time for the...

A Colorado man faces charges that he helped a wealthy Democratic fundraiser cheat banks out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Federal prosecutors said Friday that Shahin Kashanchi, of Telluride, provided fake documents that let his brother-in-law Hassan Nemazee defraud three banks of more than $290 million. Nemazee was the national finance chairman for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. He later raised money for Barack Obama.

One of America's pre-eminent political power couples made a rare joint appearance Friday, when Bill and Hillary Clinton took the stage at the former president's Clinton Global Initiative conference. - "It was a wrong-headed policy. It persisted through Democratic and Republican policies alike, including mine. We were all wrong, and she is determined to reverse it," Bill Clinton said. "Most of what I know about what I do today, I learned from her and she has become the best public servant our family has produced," he added. "I am very proud of her and honored that she came here."

Once again the facts trip up the Administration. The  well-regarded and non-partisan Congressional research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress examined Honduran law and concluded, contrary to our benighted Department of State and Chavez-loving President that Zelaya's removal from office was not a coup, but was perfectly legal under Honduran law. David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner summarizes the report as follows: The Honduran Congress appears to have acted properly in deposing President Manuel Zelaya. Unlike in the United States, the Honduran Congress has the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. Although there is no provision in...

KABUL -- Our Fox News' "War Stories" team is cleaning our gear and packing up to go home. The special operations teams that "hosted" us for a half-dozen carefully planned and executed raids against the Taliban have showered us with patches, "challenge coins" and mementos accumulated since we arrived last month. We even got to shower ourselves. While on operations, we've shot hours of videotape of their backs and legs and on their bases and taken hundreds of photos with their cameras because we're not allowed to show most of their faces. On our last night "in country," we sat...

SNIPPET: "After a 10-year gap, the United States on Thursday rejoins a biannual conference designed to win more support including from the US Senate for the treaty banning all nuclear bomb tests. A speech by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was scheduled to help kick off the UN session, a gathering of foreign ministers and other envoys from more than 100 nations that have ratified or at least signed the 1996 treaty. I

[Snip]...Taylor Branch's forthcoming "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President.'' Because having been assigned to write about such historical figures as Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp for The New York Times, my initial reaction to Clinton's gazillion hours of yakking to Branch was I've seen that movie, thanks -- and some of it was tedious the first time. (In the book, our 42nd president complains not a little – hard to believe, right? -- about being dragged through toxic sludge by the press. To which I say: Backatcha, Bubba.)

Bill Clinton on Lewinsky Affair: "I Cracked"Posted by Brian Montopoli September 21, 2009 3:14 PM (CBS)During a series of secret interviews in the White House with author and historian Taylor Branch, then-President Bill Clinton said his affair with Monika Lewinsky began because he "cracked" as a result of personal and political pressure. "I cracked; I just cracked," Clinton said, according to Branch, USA Today reports. The former president reportedly blamed the death of his mother, combined with the Democrats' losses in the 1994 midterm elections and the Whitewater investigation, for putting him in a state of mind that left him...

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2009. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton applauds in the background.

I'm in New York this week, where I will be blogging live from both the U.N. General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative throughout the week. My first experience at CGI was a rare privilege, a "blogger roundtable" with former President Bill Clinton. Discussion was limited to issues related to the initiative's work (so much for all those Kim Jong Il questions I had come up with on the train), but I managed to sneak a national-security question in by asking Clinton what he thought about the military taking on more traditional civilian NGO responsibilities in Afghanistan as the military...

NEW YORK (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed back against the US military's blunt warning that the battle against insurgents in Afghanistan would likely be lost within a year without more US troops. Clinton's comments in an interview with PBS television late Monday came amid reports that the Pentagon has asked General Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, to delay a request for more troops. Clinton expressed "respect" for McChrystal's assessment that the United States would likely lose the war in Afghanistan within a year without more US forces. "But I can only tell you there...

Michelle Obama put the final nail in the coffin in the idea of Hillary Clinton becoming her husband's vice-presidential nominee, according to a new book. Author Christopher Andersen reported that Mrs Obama favoured Joe Biden, the president's eventual choice. "Do you really want Bill and Hillary just down the hall from you in the White House?" she reportedly told her husband. "Could you live with that?" Mr Obama later thought of the masterstroke of appointing the woman he narrowly defeated as his secretary of state. According to the New York Daily News , Mrs Obama was "fascinated" by the choice...

Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a visit to Washington that he was found standing outside the White House in his underpants trying to hail a cab to go and buy a pizza. The following night he was mistaken for a drunken intruder when he was discovered stumbling around the basement of his guest house by secret service agents. The drunken behaviour of Yeltsin, who was known for his fondness for vodka and died two years ago aged 76, were revealed by former US president Bill Clinton. Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) taps his watch to end...

IT was supposed to be the week President Barack Obama saved the world. More than 100 heads of state are preparing to descend on New York for talks on halting climate change, promoting nuclear disarmament, defeating terrorism in Pakistan and tackling poverty in sub-Saharan Africa — all before a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on Friday aimed at reaching agreements on global financial regulation and curbing bankers’ bonuses. The headline-grabber was expected to be the relaunch of the stalled Middle East peace process, to be followed a week later by America’s first direct talks with Iran since the Islamic revolution in...

WASHINGTON — Set aside the images of lawmakers in hallowed halls of the Capitol yelling about who's lying and why, and picture this: Two Republican heavyweights and the Democratic president they tried to eject from office a decade ago, perched together as elder statesmen in a gilded chamber reserved for events that transcend partisanship. "We were sort of a triangle," former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott recalled Wednesday of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton. They all joined Lott's colleagues, staff and family to unveil the Mississippi Republican's official portrait. "Even though we had our differences, we found a...

In January of 2008, Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president was beginning to show the first real signs of strain. The Democratic primary in Iowa had not simply been a coronation, and she was facing stiff competition from the inexperienced newcomer Barack Obama. In a well publicized Q & A session, Clinton took a question about the difficulties of the campaign trail. The result was a rare moment of emotion from the former First Lady. Clinton’s emotional outburst may have helped her in the short term, as she used her display to connect with women in New Hampshire. Criticism abounded, however,...

Secretary Clinton Presents Awards to Inaugural Class of Democracy Video Challenge WinnersOffice of the Spokesman Washington, DC September 17, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver brief remarks and present the six global winners of the Democracy Video Challenge with their awards at 1:35 pm on Friday, September 18, 2009 in the Department of State’s Treaty Room. The Democracy Video Challenge, an online competition, asked people around the world to create short videos that completed the phrase, “Democracy is….” The Secretary will be joined by senior representatives from partner organizations and Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute...