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OK, I am going to give most of you the day off. The rest of you need to pay close attention. You have some work to do. A lot of you I know like a book. That comes from almost a decade of responding to your letters and emails on a variety of subjects. You've told me in no uncertain terms that you don't like watching cowboys kiss each other. In fact, watching the media gush over boys marrying boys and girls marrying girls makes you want to upchuck your biscuits and gravy. You don't have much tolerance for those...

Before President Bush gets anywhere near casting his first veto to ensure that the government of the United Arab Emirates can manage elements of six U.S. ports, someone ought to put before him pages 137-139 of “The 9/11 Commission Report.” If Bush doesn’t then cancel the UAE port deal, Congress must demand testimony from every person named in those pages and the footnotes. That includes former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet; former CIA Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt; former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger; Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Maj. Gen....

Why is Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State who has said that she will not run for president in 2008, the GOP's best option to win the White House in said year? The polls have consistently shown that there are only three Republicans who can beat the major Democratic contenders in 2008. Those three Republicans are Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Condoleezza Rice. However, there is only one candidate that is acceptable to the GOP out of those three: Condi Rice. Giuliani could win the general election hands down, but he is a notoriously hardcore social liberal who would...

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Russia of using its energy wealth as a political weapon, and warned on Thursday that Moscow must play by international rules if it wants to be part of the global economy. Rice said it was "ironic and not good" that Russia used gas exports to apply pressure to former close ally Ukraine just as Moscow was assuming the rotating presidency of the Group of Eight economic powerhouse nations. "It was not a good week from the point of view of Russia's demonstrating that it is now prepared to act ... as an...

....Like a lot of African Americans, I've long wondered what the deal was with Condoleezza Rice and the issue of race. How does she work so loyally for George W. Bush, whose approval rating among blacks was measured in a recent poll at a negligible 2 percent? How did she come to a worldview so radically different from that of most black Americans? Is she blind, is she in denial, is she confused -- or what?......

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Does U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice want to be president? Even a young girl at a photo opportunity with Rice in her former elementary school wanted the United States' most prominent black Republican to answer the question. Rice, whose wide smile had been fixed on her face as the 10- and 11-year-olds asked her about growing up in the segregated South and playing the piano, furrowed her brow and narrowed her eyes for an uncomfortable moment. Sitting on a knee-high chair in front of shelves of books and teddy bears -- and next to the...

According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment. And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles. So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying a brief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised. What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, [Rice] was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (we’ve confirmed this, so her new heels will surely get coverage from the WaPo’s...

CONDI RICE-HILLARY CLINTON VIRTUAL MATCHUP-2008 (BEAUTY AND THE HILDABEAST2) by Mia T, 7.19.05   CONDOLEEZZA RICE USED POWER OF DIPLOMACY TO END COLD WAR STRENGTHENED AMERICA PROMOTED WORLD PEACE HILLARY CLINTON ABUSED POWER, PROXIMATE CAUSE OF TERROR WAR UNDERMINED AND WEAKENED AMERICA FOMENTED DIVISION AND HATRED THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE   link to movie(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) link to movie(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)by Mia T, 7.18.05 COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005 The Hotline also polled on some questions concerning 2008. In...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to do more to combat violence in the Middle East. Ms Rice praised the president for the steps already taken towards security reform, but said it was insufficient. "Much more needs to be done particularly to actively use the security forces to combat lawlessness, and to combat terrorism," she said. Ms Rice was speaking after talks with the Palestinian leader in Ramallah. Withdrawal plan Ms Rice is on the first leg of a two-day regional tour aimed at boosting the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians....

Rice says does not know if N.Korea's Kim is sane WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday she did not know whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was sane, a remark that could anger Pyongyang's unpredictable ruler. Asked if she thought Kim was sane during an interview with MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," Rice replied: "I don't know. I've never met the man." The interview was taped on Monday and was to be broadcast on Tuesday. The United States last week raised expectations North Korea might resume six-way talks seeking to end its suspected...

North Korea launched a scathing personal attack on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, accusing her of slandering Pyongyang and usurping power in the administration of President George W. Bush. "It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the rooster," state Radio Pyongyang said in a broadcast monitored by South Korea's Unification Ministry. Rice became the target of Pyongyang's ire in January by referring to the isolated Stalinist state as an "outpost of tyranny." The North has repeatedly demanded an apology for the comments among other conditions for returning to six-nation talks on its nuclear...

In light of this story that appeared in the Washington Whispers column of U.S. News and World Report: Rice Wants It--But in Draft Form Political associates of Secretary of State Condi Rice are stirring the 2008 presidential pot on her behalf. While she takes the high road, they're pushing her name out there. "She definitely wants to be president," said one. But, the friend added, Rice isn't planning on quitting to run. "She wants to be drafted," he said. our organization, Americans for Dr. Rice, would like to announce that it is our organizational intention to place Dr. Rice's name...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: After spending about 24 hours at Camp David, the President and Mrs. Bush returned to the White House early to attend the annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service on Capitol Hill. He was joined by Attorney General Al Gonzales, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, and Secretary of Homeland Security Mike Chertoff, as well as FBI Director Bob Mueller and the Director of ATF, Carl Truscott. The Congress was represented by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Senator Pat Leahy and Congressman Dave Reichert, from the state of Washington, among many others. Reichert served as a law...

US SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO IRAQ

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, recalling how her father took up arms to defend fellow blacks from racist whites in the segregated South, said Wednesday the constitutional right of Americans to own guns is as important as their rights to free speech and religion...

WASHINGTON, April 22 - A German citizen detained for five months in an Afghan prison was released in May 2004 on direct orders from Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, after she learned the man had been mistakenly identified as a terror suspect, government officials said Friday. The officials, who confirmed an account of Ms. Rice's decision that was first reported by NBC News, said that when Khaled el-Masri was taken from a bus on the Serbian-Macedonian border on Dec. 31, 2003, the Macedonian and the American authorities believed he was a member of Al Qaeda who had trained...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The first couple are at their ranch in Crawford today, and no public appearances are scheduled. THE WEEK AHEAD: President and Mrs. Bush will be based in Crawford this week and will return to Washington on Monday, March 28. Monday and Tuesday: The President will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and another state [probably Colorado] on his continuing tour of the nation to promote his Social Security reform proposals. Wednesday: The President will host the trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Martin and President Fox. There will be meetings in the morning at Baylor University, then...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) meets former sumo wrestling champion Konishiki (L) after her arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo March 18, 2005. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice(R) hugs former sumo wrestling champion Konishiki after her arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo March 18, 2005. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) hugs Hawaii-born former sumo champion Konishiki upon her arrival at Tokyo. Rice called on North Korea to return 'immediately' to talks on its nuclear ambitions and said Pyongyang's ally China had responsibility for restarting negotiations(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

TOKYO - the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched Saturday a call with a democratic evolution of China, in a speech in front of the university from Sofia in Tokyo. "Even China must in the final analysis adopt an opened form, truly representative, of government, if she wants to collect the fruits and to answer the challenges of a more and more globalized world", Mrs. Rice affirmed. "A each time we saw that the economic and political opening cannot be separated a long time", the Secretary of State pled. "A the obviousness, America is right to be pleased...

WASHINGTON is suddenly agog at the prospect of President Condi. A flurry of speculation about the political ambitions of Condoleezza Rice was ignited yesterday when the US secretary of state took a first step towards wooing conservative Republican voters.Asked in a newspaper interview to comment on widespread speculation that she might stand as the Republican candidate for the White House in 2008, Rice not only declined to rule out a run; she went on to discuss an unusual subject for a secretary of state — the rights and wrongs of abortion. Rice was careful to avoid any suggestion that she...