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Don't bother me with reports of soldiers being killed -- I need a new ottoman! One Hillary Clinton email in the latest batch released by the State Department illustrates how disengaged from reality the former Secretary of State was, and one would assume, still is. In December, 2011, she received an email from her longtime aide Huma Abedin under the subject line "6 soldiers among dead." While the Middle East is disintegrating, her mind is on the latest and greatest in home accessories. And those responding to Mak on social media agreed. Amid chaos in Syria, Hillary Clinton asked for...

Barack Obama is the Steve Urkel of American politics. “Did I do that?” he whines. No, it is not his fault. If you have not heard, Barack Obama came up with a brilliant plan to fight ISIS. Instead of actually just blowing them up, he decided to spend the time training Syrian rebels. All sorts of people ridiculed his plan. And now, after millions and millions of dollars spent, there are only four or five trained fighters. This is the Obama government — a few million dollars per rebel trained is like an Obamacare investment. Perhaps these four or...

A few minutes before my meeting with Hillary Clinton on the Fourth of July, during my drive to the Mount Washington hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., where she was staying, I passed a moose near the side of the road. At first I thought it was fake, one of those life-size cutouts that you sometimes see of big land mammals or, on occasion, famous politicians. But the specimen proved to be real and spectacular, antlers and all. I had never seen a moose before. It was thrilling, and I felt compelled to tell Clinton about it within seconds of my arrival....

Hillary Clinton made it clear this week that she is not just seeking votes, she is seeking to overhaul the way we vote. At speeches in Texas, Clinton railed against voter ID laws, praised efforts to expand early voting periods, and made the case for automatic voter registration. In the latter case, Clinton believes every American who turns 18 should be automatically registered to vote. She also would like to see everyone already over 18 registered in a similar way, though she declined to say how she would make this happen. Clinton’s remarks on automatic voter registration come only months...

Well she's running folks...didn't think in the end that she would but she is. Hillary Rodham Clinton made it official yesterday and now the 'fun' begins...if you call a chance that 'Ms.Pant-Suit' could win the presidency in 2016 'fun.' The woman more commonly and so rightfully known as the 'Butcher of Benghazi' has a lot of explaining to do as we on the conservative side will continue to pick her apart...one slimy, nasty, lying, traitorous piece at a time. Hillary Clinton...so desperate to be America's first woman president...so desperate that she's been running for president since the day her hubby...

Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are in contract to buy a $10.5 million apartment in The Whitman, at 21 East 26th St. Come June, NoMad residents will be keeping up with the Clintons. Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are buying a sleek, $10.5 million apartment overlooking Madison Square Park, sources said. The Whitman, first built in 1924, is near the couple's current place, a rented loft in Gramercy Park. The 5,000-square-foot pad, in The Whitman at 21 E. 26th St., is just a few blocks from the couple's rented Gramercy Park loft. Sources said staying nearby...

The Clinton First Home Museum in Hope, Ark., will become an official National Park Service historic site at the beginning of next year. It’s a two-story house on South Hervey Street that served as the center of future president Bill’s life until he was 10. With its white clapboards, green trim, broad eaves, and front porch, the place looks like it was tele-transported into this century from the early 1950s. There’s good stuff inside, such as a Lionel train set little Bill’s stepfather gave him. The private foundation that has run the museum for some years and is now donating...

A global-warming skeptic is reacting harshly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's linkage of the devastating floods in Pakistan to alleged man-made climate change. In an interview with Pakistan's Dawn TV, Clinton recently claimed "there is a linkage" between natural disasters like the flooding in Pakistan and climate change. She argued that "you can't point to any particular disaster and say 'it was caused by...' but we are changing the climate of the world. We've seen that with the Russian forest fires." The latter is a reference to the fires that were sparked following a severe drought. Marc Morano, executive...

WASHINGTON - Big dog Bill Clinton barked at Democratic senators on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, telling them to pass health care reform now because it's good politics - and good for the economy. "Every year...we write a check to all of our economic competitors for 800 or 900 billion dollars," Clinton said later, referring to how much American firms must pay for health care while foreign firms do not. "And they cover everybody."Clinton, still regretting his own failure to pass reform in 1993, privately told senators not to make the same mistakes he and Hillary Clinton did, and to...

First, it was the disclosure of the contributors to her husband’s charitable organizations, then a rollback in salary for her new job because of an obscure clause in the Constitution, and now as Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to make the transition from senator to secretary of state, she has written off a $13.1 million loan of her own money to her presidential campaign. According to fillings with the Federal Election Commission, Mrs. Clinton forgave a total of $13,175,000 in personal funds that she lent to her campaign during the Democratic primary, plus interest. Even so, Mrs. Clinton still owes millions...

The growing consensus seems to be that the former first lady’s ascendancy as first woman president of the U.S. is less assured than previously thought, thanks in large part to ... Barack Obama. The naked truth is, Hillary has a bigger problem than Obama. Anyone who has heard her speak knows what it is, so we may as well talk about it. That voice. Every time Hillary opens her mouth, Americans are reminded of two things: (1) she’s not Bill, and (2) she’s as tone-deaf in the presence of human beings as she was singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Iowa....

Hillary enemies find her cross just unbearable Hillary Clinton has appeared a handful of times this summer and fall with a cross around her neck, and it's an image that touches a nerve with the people who hate her. But Clinton is among the most religious Protestants seeking the presidency in 2008. If she gets the Democratic nod, she could well be matched against a less openly devout Republican. "She's actually the real deal, although a lot of people don't think of her as religious," said John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life...

ALBANY - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she hopes America is ready for a female president - and gave her strongest hint yet at whom she has in mind when she blurted out, “Stay tuned.” Clinton, who was on a three-day upstate New York campaign swing, made the provocative comment to ABC's "Nightline," which reaches a national audience. Asked if America is ready for its first female chief executive, Clinton responded, "It just depends on when and if that happens. Stay tuned." Her coy remark immediately renewed speculation that the former first lady, heading to an easy re-election victory...

"Hillary Clinton really is one of the weakest . . . nominees with whom the Democrats could be saddled." "Democrats are worried sick about her chances." "Just give someone else a chance, so we in the Democratic Party can elect a Democrat." "She cannot possibly, possibly win." Yada, yada, yada. We've heard all this "Hillary can't win stuff" before. In fact, the quotes above aren't from recent weeks but from six years ago, when many pundits -- and Democrats -- said there was no way that Hillary could get elected to the Senate. She won by 12 percentage points. We...

Hillary Clinton Off Case, Still May Testify A California judge has signaled that 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will not be able to avoid being deposed for a civil lawsuit against her husband and others involved in a Hollywood fundraiser for her 2000 Senate campaign, according to a lawyer involved in the case. Colette Wilson, who represents one-time Clinton fundraiser Peter Paul, tells the New York Sun that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz indicated last week that any attempt to prevent Mrs. Clinton from giving sworn testimony in the case would be "dead on arrival." Mr. Paul footed...

I commend Senator Boxer from California for joining with members of the House, most particularly Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, in raising the objection because it does permit us to air some of these issues, something that I believe is necessary for the smooth functioning of our democracy and the integrity of the most precious right of any citizen, namely, the right to vote. As we look at our election system, I think it's fair to say that there are many legitimate questions about its accuracy, about its integrity, and they are not confined to the state of Ohio. They are questions...