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Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman, explained that the hasty evacuation of our embassy in Yemen was not an evacuation but “a reduction in staff.” This proved a problem because the Yemeni government had already announced (and denounced) the “evacuation” — the word normal folks use for the panicky ordering of people onto planes headed out of the country. Thus continues the administration’s penchant for wordplay, the bending of language to fit a political need. This would all be comical and merely peculiar if it didn’t reflect a larger, more troubling reality: The confusion of language is a direct result...

MOSCOW (AP) — The financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. Putin's remarks during a Communist Party meeting were the latest Russian attack singling out the U.S. as the chief culprit in the global financial turmoil. "Trust in the United States as the leader of the free world and the free economy, and confidence in Wall Street as the center of that trust, has been damaged, I believe, forever," Putin said. "There will be no return to the previous...

Members of Windsor's Lebanese community, Ghina Maawie, left, Aida Mrove, Ayat Choukier and H. Dabaja show their support for the message of the billboard, which is on display at Wyandotte Street and Marion Avenue. The sign has led to a political divide between some. Photograph by : Ian Willms, The Windsor Star But some people are starting to fight back...And now this... 'Sharia law is hate' Billboards announce: 'Sharia law is hate' Group hopes to spark debate over accepting Islamic rules in U.S. Posted: August 08, 200811:34 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn© 2008 WorldNetDaily An organization in Florida plans...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's annual accounting of hunger in the United States reported no hunger in its last outing. Instead, it found "food insecurity." Likewise, no one is even considering retreating from Iraq. "Redeploying" the heck out of there is, however, an option. In Washington, words are a moving target that conceal at least as much as they reveal. Doublespeak runs through the discourse on Iraq, terrorism and domestic matters to a point where it's hard to tell what is going on. The libertarian Cato Institute recently took on the rising tide of fuzzy words in the fight against...

Upset France cries foul over AI’s Boeing dealPosted online: Thursday, May 05, 2005 at 1145 hours IST NEW DELHI, MAY 5: Disappointed over Air India's decision to buy 50 aircraft from Boeing and not Airbus Industrie, France feels that "some factors other than commercial" have influenced the deal. French Ambassador to India Dominique Girard still hopes India will consider "comprehensive factors" while going for 126 fighter planes for the Air Force in which French Mirage jets will be competing. "We are surprised and disappointed. Airbus definitely has an advantage over Boeing," Girard said here when asked to comment on the...

Vowing to "fight like a warrior," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday delivered his most severe admonition yet to legislative Democrats, whom he blamed for blocking a budget to try to shield unions and other special interests. "I will stay here until 2006. I will stay here and I will stay here and I will stay here and I will fight like a warrior for the people of California," Schwarzenegger said at a hastily called Capitol press conference. "And there is no one that can stop me, and anyone that pushes me around, I will push back, including the Democrats and...

Washington, DC, January 20, 2004 - "This Congress will come to order and the members - especially the Democrats - will sit down and shut up!" House Speaker Dennis Hastert seemed stunned at the sound of his own words, even as they came tumbling out of his mouth. But he knew there was no turning back now. He was about to introduce the President of the United States to a joint session of Congress to deliver this year's State of the Union Address, and such language was the only recourse left to him. "Mr. Speaker - you horse's patoot! -...