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As Defense Secretary Gates tours our missile defense site at Fort Greely, Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin calls for restoration of the missile defense cuts. Meanwhile, North Korea points another missile at the U.S. Robert Gates' visit to our missile defense facility at Fort Greely on Monday was a pointed reminder to the North Koreans that while we have been talking softly, we still have a few big sticks in the ground ready to turn the North Korean missile program into so much scrap metal.

US President George W. Bush's foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year. While Bush himself didn't fare nearly as well, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raked in at least $316,000 in gem-encrusted baubles from the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia alone, making her one of top recipients among US officials of gifts from foreign heads of state and government and their aides in 2007. In January, Jordan's King Abdullah II gave Rice an emerald and...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) should cut off outreach efforts with organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist extremist groups, a report from a ranking Senate subcommittee member recommends. "Justice Denied: Waste & Mismanagement at the Department of Justice," is an 86-page report issued in October by the office of U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday it was "unacceptable" that there were so few black people like herself in the US diplomatic corps. "I want to see a Foreign Service that looks as if black Americans are part of this great country," Rice told a gathering of black colleges and universities in Washington. "I have lamented that I can go into a meeting at the Department of State," said Rice, the second black person to become secretary of state after her predecessor Colin Powell. "And, as a matter of fact, I can go into a whole day of meetings...

In the equation which makes up the odious, criminal and murderous Bush regime and its murderous, criminal and odious foreign policy, the constant factor is constituted by a teacher, promoted to positions way above her personal and intellectual station by a gullible fool of a President. This teacher, whose sheer incompetence as National Security Advisor and as Secretary of State is today so blatantly apparent, goes by the name of Condoleeza Rice. The fact that Rice was National Security Advisor at the time of 9/11 speaks for itself, period. As Secretary of State, she is supposed to be responsible for...

The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is in the Western Australian captial, Perth. She is in the country for a short, unofficial visit after attending a regional security forum in Singapore. Dr Rice touched down on a US airforce jet with the foreign minister, Stephen Smith, and was greeted by the WA premier, Alan Carpenter, the immigration minister, Chris Evans, and the US ambassador. The secretary of state is visiting as a personal guest of Mr Smith, and will not hold any official diplomatic talks while in Australia. Dr Rice will meet troops from the Special Air Services regiment,...

How insulated is the MSM? In how much of a liberal echo chamber does it exist? For an answer, consider the vile cartoon displayed here. My guess is that the great majority of NewsBusters readers are familiar with it. But John Harwood—of the New York Times and CNBC—has never seen it. That became clear on today's Morning Joe. The topic was the TV comedy world's double-standard, in which Republicans are regularly skewered but the laff factory suddenly shuts down when it comes to mocking Barack. A New York Times article on the matter was the jumping off point, an Joe...

Condoleezza Albright? The Twilight of the Bush Presidency Is Looking More and More like Clinton Guest Column | By Joel Himelfarb | March 31, 2008 As someone who voted to elect George W. Bush in both of his runs for president, I take no pleasure in saying that when it comes to foreign policy, his final year in the White House looks increasingly like Bill Clinton’s. Clinton spent his second term desperately trying to create a peacemaking “legacy” for himself: courting world leaders who had no real interest in making peace like Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and North Korean...

JERUSALEM (AP) - President Bush, seeking to pull Israel and the Palestinians toward serious negotiations, said Wednesday that despite ongoing land squabbles and fears of violence he has high hopes that a Mideast peace pact can be achieved before he leaves office at the end of the year. "I come as an optimistic person and a realistic person - realistic in my understanding that it's vital for the world to fight terrorists, to confront those who would murder the innocent to achieve political objectives," Bush said as he began his first presidential visit to Israel. His first formal meeting was...

War On Terror: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she might talk with Iran this week at a Mideast conference on Iraq. This would end a 28-year break in direct contact with Iran's rogue regime. It's a bad idea. We understand that Rice is keen on stabilizing Iraq. She understands a sad-but-true reality: Iraq's Shiite-led government sees Iran as every bit of an ally as the U.S. On the surface, therefore, it makes sense to talk to Iran along with the other regional governments meeting this week at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort. But we think it's a mistake. Condoleezza Rice:...

Medved will be interviewing Condi LIVE in a few minutes. Hopefully they will be taking calls.

Details of Democrats in Congress lie after lie after lie after lie Here's the link or cut and paste into browser http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17744545&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush, and the American people, begin observances of the 5th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks. Excerpt from the AP story by JENNIFER LOVEN, as published on Yahoo News a short time ago. Bush, wife lay wreaths at ground zeroNEW YORK -- President Bush and his wife Laura stood in somber silence on Sunday after laying wreaths at the ground zero site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood. They honored the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on a tour that will take them to...

"Palestinian" Arab Muslim Racism, against blacks too! 'Black spinster' label pinned on Condi Rice Palestinian media use racist terms including 'colored dark skin lady' http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51298 PALESTINIAN MEDIA USE RACIST TERMS FOR CONDI RICE: Newspapers ... http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur27814.cfmEurweb.com, CA - Aug 2, 2006* The Palestinians’overall hatred ... Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been using racist terms in ... A cartoon that ran last week in the PA controlled Al Quds ... Black Activists Condemn Racist Rice Cartoons in Palestinian Press ... http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=70272U.S. Newswire (press release), DC - Aug 4, 2006... her as "Brown Sugar," Ted Rall's cartoon suggesting she ... leftist knuckleheads...

Today, on his first day back from the G8 Summit in Russia, the President met with the winner of the 2006 Indy 500, Sam Hornish Jr, and his wife Crystal at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. This afternoon, he met with a bi-partisan panel of Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House to brief them on G8, and on the war in the Middle East, after which he made a statement to the press and answered a few questions. Later he met in the Oval Office with members of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice echoed the criticism of Syria and Iran on Sunday, blaming them in part for the crisis. "I absolutely see that Syria and Iran are playing a part in this. They're not even trying to hide their hand," Rice said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation." Rice declined to say whether the U.S. would go so far as to support Israel if it chose to strike Iran in retaliation for that country's alleged role in some of the missile strikes hitting Israel.

Dr. Madeline Albright - former Secretary of State was invited by the Commonwealth Club to speak at the Santa Clara, CA Convention Center today, about 3 miles from the school where I teach so I thought I would drop by and listen in. Not only was she the first female US Secretary of State and the highest ranking female in American history, Dr. Albright was unanimously approved by the Senate. But, what I didn't know was that her father, an ex-diplomat in Czechoslavakia before getting political immunity here in the States and then becoming professor and dean of international studies...

More than 200 faculty members have signed a letter of opposition to her. Scores of students plan to protest. And dozens of other demonstrators are expected to attend. All of this and more await Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Boston College tomorrow, when she is due to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree and give what is shaping up to be this year’s most controversial commencement address. But anyone expecting Rice to be shouted down may be disappointed. “I think people have a right to demonstrate as long as they do it in a respectful way,” said senior...

An open letter to William P. Leahy, SJ, president of Boston College. I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College. I am doing so -- after five years at BC, and with tremendous regret -- as a direct result of your decision to invite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at this year's graduation. Many members of the faculty and student body already have voiced their objection to the invitation, arguing that Rice's actions as secretary of state are inconsistent with the broader humanistic values of the university...

The Dean of Blackburn is a holy man and, as such, is not generally touched by earthly desires. He has serious misgivings about the Iraq war. He is a sensible, mild-mannered sort of fellow, not given to unnecessary exaggeration. But that was yesterday. That was BC. Before Condoleezza. "Oh, I thought she was charming," says the Very Rev Christopher Armstrong, reflecting on his hour-long meeting with the US Secretary of State in Blackburn Cathedral. He pauses. A playful half-smile curls his lips. His eyes glaze over slightly and gaze into the middle distance. It is as if he is recalling...

Leaders of the local chapter of the NAACP say they believe management at KTRS/St. Louis overreacted when they fired talk host David Lenihan over a remark he made about U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "This is an event that the press has blown out of proportion," NAACP chapter President Harold Crumpton told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as he sat alongside Lenihan and his wife during a news conference held in St. Louis yesterday. Lenihan was fired from KTRS last week after making what he says was a "slip of the tongue" during a discussion of Rice's potential to succeed...

UNITED NATIONS - The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed on a statement Wednesday demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment, setting the stage for the first action by the powerful body over fears that Tehran wants a nuclear weapon. The 15 members of the council planned to meet later Wednesday to approve the statement. Uranium enrichment is a process that can lead to a nuclear weapon.

Where is the outrage that was manufactured to run Rush Limbaugh off the air? Is it absent because Gumbel is allegedly black? So just picture for a moment, if you will, that you're watching SportsCenter tonight and Dan Patrick says, "The lack of whites in the NBA makes it look like a welfare office." Think that would get buried like Gumbel's comments? For what it's worth, maybe Gumbel should do some research on the emerging face of the GOP.

Some cast aside traditional loyalties... Adam Hunter, an ambitious law student with bright eyes, an easy smile, and plenty of charisma, seems practically destined for politics... a first-year law student at Howard University, a historically black campus with a long record of liberal activism. He has political ambitions of his own -- but not with the Democrats. Instead, Hunter, who as an undergraduate headed Howard's chapter of College Republicans, sees himself as part of a younger generation of African-Americans. He is ready to cast aside traditional loyalties to the Democratic Party and forge his own political identity. ''There's a lot...

There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine): "Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t care about them and won’t watch them ... Because they’re so trying ... Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when...

The U.S. intelligence community has been shaken in its failure to predict Hamas's victory in Palestinian legislative elections. The intelligence failure came despite a Saudi assessment relayed to the United States that Hamas would win the elections. Officials said the CIA was influenced by an Israeli assessment that predicted a victory by the ruling Fatah movement led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "There are a lot of questions going to be asked when the dust settles," an official said. "The biggest question is: do we really know what's going on out there?" Officials said the U.S. intelligence community detected...

In reaction to the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, Condoleeza Rice's response was: "She's [Condi] asked her staff to look into that. Why is it that we didn't see this coming?" I am sorry all you Condi supporters, but this is extremely disconcerting. It is completely indicative of someone living in the policy wonk world of the State Department, getting 99.99% of their news and "analysis" from that world and clueless as to what is actually going on. 9/11 was the result of 40 years of that kind of myopic foreign policy thinking. "Didn't see it coming?? Let's...

...The chief U.S. diplomat also had encouraging words for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but added an indirect warning that he must do more to disarm and counter the militant group Hamas. The United States lists Hamas as a terrorist organization, but the group has recently developed a strong political wing that is a formidable opponent for Abbas... ..."Dismantling the infrastructure of terrorism is essential because in the final analysis no democratic government can tolerate armed parties with [b]one foot in the realm of politics and one foot in the camp of terrorism[/b]," Rice said at Sunday's symposium...

Do you agree with Condoleezza Rice's assertion that the word of the United States is 'as good as gold'? FREEP THIS POLL!

For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no means no - and no again - when it comes to whether she will run for president. "It's not what I want to do with my life, it's not what I'm going to do with my life," Rice said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." A group pushing for a Rice candidacy has run a television ad in New Hampshire - traditional site of the first presidential primary - and plans to air it soon in Iowa, where the first party caucuses take place. At least two Web sites are promoting Rice even...

What about a Rice-Allen Ticket in 2008? You heard it here first! Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has great name recognition, solid foreign policy credentials, and a brilliant mind. Former Virginia Governor and current Senator George Allen has a solid conservative foundation, a friendly outgoing personality, and plenty of leadership experience. Rice would strip a lot of black and women's votes from the Democrat ticket; Allen would pull in the conservatives. This is a ticket that could beat Hillary Clinton. This is a ticket that would keep the Democrats out of the White House for eight years with Rice as...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's weekend visit to the region, intended to facilitate Israel's disengagement plan, was profoundly disappointing. The hastily planned trip was intended to calm a deteriorating situation caused by the Islamic Jihad suicide bombing outside a Netanya shopping mall on July 12, which killed five Israelis, and relentless bombardments of Gaza and western Negev communities by Hamas which killed 22-year-old Dana Galkovitch in Netiv Ha'asara and further traumatized residents of Sderot and Gush Katif. Though PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's foreign minister has candidly reneged on the PA's road map commitments to confiscate weapons and explosives in...

In addition to the photographs there is also a link to an article regarding the incident in the Sudan with the NBC reporter and US Officials when they were excluded from a meeting GretchenM pinged me a link to this article about how reporters and US Officials were treated today in the Sudan Dr Rice herself expressed anger at what happened. Part of the article as follows:- Security forces in the Sudanese capital manhandled U.S. officials and reporters traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, marring her round of meetings with leaders of the new unified government. Rice demanded an...

Do we know what China has been up to lately? Seems they have been flying under the radar. China's activities have been mentioned in passing a few times in the media. U.S. News & World Report did a story on China for its June 20th issue. But for the most part, we hardly hear of what is going on. We must not forget that China still has Communist leanings. I am perturbed about the fact that China, a country where human rights abuses still occur, will host the 2008 Olympic Games. This is a joke. What was the IOC thinking?...

The United States is certain that Syrian military intelligence operatives remain in Lebanon in defiance of international demands to withdraw all forces and agents, two senior U.S. officials said Thursday.Syria claims all its forces quit Lebanon in April after some three decades as the dominant political and military force there."There is no question that Syrian military intelligence agents have stayed behind, and that they are exerting a highly negative influence on the situation," one senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity.The United Nations plans to send a verification team back to Lebanon to investigate whether intelligence forces remain,...

The key to success(Filed: 13/06/2005) Condoleezza Rice, the American Secretary of State, is to play the piano at a charity concert in Washington. The audience is in for a treat: the media hail any public figure who can fumble a few notes of Chopin as a "concert-level pianist", but in Dr Rice's case it is true. She is good enough to have accompanied cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Brahms's D Minor Sonata, which is beyond the reach of all but the most technically adept amateur. But what else do we expect of a woman who, in addition to speaking several languages,...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - The United States called on Sunday for new ways to support "fragile" democracies in the Western Hemisphere but was immediately accused by Venezuela of seeking to impose a "global dictatorship." The United States hopes to use a three-day meeting of the 34-member Organization of American States that began on Sunday to advance its idea of allowing private groups to help monitor and promote democracy by raising their concerns with the OAS. "When you look at some of the fragile democracies that there are, it's very clear that the institution needs to be better capable of...

On 11 occasions over the past nine months, the U.S. and allies cooperating in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) have successfully prevented the spread of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or related items. At least two of those incidents involved Iran, two involved North Korea and another involved an unidentified third country, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher confirmed. Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the PSI, a project launched by President Bush during a 2003 visit to Krakow, Poland. With a focus on stopping and searching ships, planes, trains or trucks, the PSI aims to prevent terrorists and rogue states...

Thank goodness Confederate History Month is over! Maybe Civil Rights organizations, black politicians and journalists will stop whining for awhile. They must pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans on the side. Fat, middle-aged suburbanites waving Confederate flags create excuses for hysterical screaming. Ironically, the volume and shrillness of attacking Confederate heritage is inversely proportional to the actual racism and threat to personal safety. But, it’s profitable if you’re a race pimp. When your skin color is your day job, you need something to cry ‘wolf’ about. The professionally-black Blacks, whose jobs are based on ‘African-American’ in their titles, are working...

Left of the Dial, which looks to be a 90-minute documentary that will deliver a glowing tribute to the left wing Air America radio talk show service, will debut Thursday night on HBO. The HBO Web site touted how "a group of investors set out to launch a liberal radio network that would challenge the dominance of America's airwaves by conservative talk radio." A synopsis of the documentary recounted how "in the days before launch, the energy picks up amidst a whirlwind of photo shoots, CNN sound bites, the creation of marketing/PR materials, and delivery of the hot-off-the-presses New York...

Condeleezza Rice says she is “mildly pro-choice,” a position that dooms her candidacy for president in the Republican Party. No matter how high her spike heels, it’s too big a reach for her to get the Republican nomination without being strongly pro-life anymore than somebody who is not pro-choice getting the Democratic nod. It’s a litmus test for both parties. Rice can flirt with running, but unless she’s prepared to do what the senior George Bush did and become a pro-life convert, she’s flirting with ghosts. edit... Bush is likely to move the court’s most conservative jurist, Antonin Scalia, to...

Five died and 31 wounded in two explosions with Kandahar KABUL - At least five people were killed and 31 wounded Thursday during two simultaneous explosions with Kandahar, the large city of the south of Afghanistan, announced local persons in charge. "Two explosions occurred at the same time, one in the center, the other in the west of the city. We have five died confirmed and 31 wounded ", affirmed by telephone with the AFP Khaled Pashtun, the director of the Businesses external of the municipality. These explosions, whose origin had not been given initially, intervened whereas the American...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Indian capital at the start a six-nation tour of Asia which she said was in the midst of "tremendous change". "This is going to be an opportunity to exchange views with important countries, important players in the region that is itself in the midst of tremendous change," Rice told reporters on board the aircraft which brought her to New Delhi. "For instance with India, we clearly have a broader and deeper relationship than we ever had," she added Tuesday. Rice was received at the airport by senior...

Today, The President awards the National Medals of Science and Technology. Karen Hughes returns as she is nominated as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Quote of the Day "Your work is making our country more competitive, more hopeful, and more prosperous. On behalf of a grateful nation, congratulations for earning the National Medals of Science and Technology." Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island!

Those who get their news from Big Media probably have no idea why President Bush initiated a major shakeup in the State Department and CIA. Here's a little background. Two years ago, a long-simmering bureaucratic feud escalated into open warfare between the Defense Department, which is loyal to Bush, and powerful factions within the CIA and State Department whose loyalties lie elsewhere. Some of these disloyal elements may be under the influence of George Soros' Shadow Party, according to an article in the GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily of June 30, 2003. DFAD editor Gregory R. Copley writes:"Senior bureaucrats in...

From Hosni Mubarak’s opening up Egyptian elections for the first time, to Syria’s strong efforts to accommodate American demands for withdrawal from Lebanon and for cooperation in Iraq, the Middle East is changing in ways unforeseen even last fall. During the campaign, neither candidate discussed pressuring these two putative allies to create a stable and democratic Arab presence, yet today both are taking the first steps toward representative government. Lebanon’s Druze Patriarch Walid Jumblatt pinpointed the genesis of this metamorphosis in the pages of The Washington Post: It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has...

While United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was patently ignoring a President Robert Mugabe oppressed Zimbabwe, his son, Kojo was making money building the Zimbabwean capitol’s airport. Mugabe runs the ZANU-PF, a regime that Condoleeza Rice labels an outpost of tyranny. Why Kojo Annan’s business activities in Zimbabwe have not surfaced in the ongoing probe of the Oil-For-Food Program should surely raise concern about both the integrity and sincerity of the investigation. It’s a global village as far as Kojo’s business agenda is concerned. First came West Africa where Annan’s youngest son was working for the Swiss-based Cotecna with ties...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived at the Wiesbaden Army Airfield on Wednesday dressed all in black. She was wearing a black skirt that hit just above the knee, and it was topped with a black coat that fell to mid-calf. The coat, with its seven gold buttons running down the front and its band collar, called to mind a Marine's dress uniform or the "save humanity" ensemble worn by Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix." ... The boots had a high, slender heel that is not particularly practical. But it is a popular silhouette because it tends to elongate and...

But Condoleezza Rice is sailing like a jet-powered butterfly among our potential allies-for-peace, creating a better atmosphere. Within her purview, this is all, and more, than we could have expected......Dang that George W. Bush. Just when we were cooking up a good hate, he enters his second term and seems to be mellowing a bit. Regardless of what you think about every Bush administration policy, surely you believe new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is getting a great start. She’s everywhere, already having made a tour of Europe and the Middle East, seeming to make progress wherever she goes. You...

TODAY'S EVENTS: Vice President Dick Cheney met with South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon in private. The North's announcement and its decision to pull out of six-nation disarmament talks was "a matter of grave concern," South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Washington, where he arrived on a previously scheduled trip to meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (The Foreign Minister had been scheduled to meet with the Secretary and members of Congress during this visit.) The Vice President and Foreign Minister discussed the North Korean situation. News reports from Seoul indicate that South Korea initially reacted with...