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NEW YORK (AP) — Terry McAuliffe's crushing defeat in Virginia's gubernatorial primary is the latest blow to former President Bill Clinton's political legacy, still reeling from Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in last year's Democratic presidential contest. McAuliffe, a longtime fundraiser and close friend of both Clintons, brought money and attention to an off-year election that otherwise would have commanded little notice outside Virginia. Bill Clinton appeared at five rallies across the state for McAuliffe, lent his voice to radio commercials and recorded telephone endorsements to help get out the vote. Clinton also attended a fundraiser at McAuliffe's...

A state appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a San Mateo County Superior Court sentence of three years in prison for a former political fundraiser who was a fugitive for 15 years. Norman Hsu, 57, was sentenced in January for a 1992 no-contest plea to a charge of grand theft in an investment scheme. County prosecutors said Hsu operated a so-called Ponzi scheme, by soliciting investments in a purported latex glove company and paying returns to early investors with funds from later investors. Prosecutors said he defrauded about 20 victims of nearly $1 million. After pleading no contest to...

The geniuses at Homeland Security who brought you hare-brained procedures at airports (which inconvenience travelers without snagging terrorists) have decreed that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This means The Investigator -- at the risk of compromising national insecurities -- would be remiss not to make you aware of the hottest topic in U.S. counterintelligence circles: rogue microchips. This threat emanates from China (PRC) -- and it is hugely significant. The myth: Chinese intelligence services have concealed a microchip in every computer everywhere, programmed to "call home" if and when activated. The reality: It may actually be true. All...

A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. The private gathering featured Carly Fiorina, Mr. McCain’s top economic adviser, and took place at the Dunmore home of political consultant Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of Mrs. Clinton’s family who has signed on as paid national director of Mr. McCain’s Citizens for McCain Coalition. The attendees included Tony Rodham, Mrs. Clinton’s youngest sibling, his wife, Megan, and their two children; attorney Kathleen Granahan Kane, who...

In 15 years the Clintons have never been this far removed from the limelight. Im guessing that Denver will be something special to watch. Here's betting the notorious Michelle tape appears or a super delegate fight breaks out. I don't trust them a one bit! Your thoughts.

A chance December 11, 2007 release of a photo on a Chinese website has led to a rare unofficial “declassification” of a new Chinese unmanned test space plane.[1] Designated the “Shenlong,” or Divine Dragon, this small aircraft was shown suspended from the fuselage of a Xian H-6 bomber and launch aircraft. So far there has been no official Chinese government, PLA or Chinese corporate or space program related disclosure about this program. However, from this photo and other Chinese sources, it is possible to conclude that the Shenlong constitutes a second Chinese air-launched space-launch vehicle (SLV) program, but for the...

In our urgency to deal with really urgent stuff over the past few weeks, we have been piling up news articles regarding what some regard as a universal urgency. That would be global warming or Global Warming or GLOBAL WARMING, depending on one's perspective, provided that one has a perspective. Bill Clinton, speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that mother of all junkets for rich folks who take themselves very seriously, said that GLOBAL WARMING bothered him a bunch. "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of...

As usual the MSM is trying it's best to have us think that Hillary Xlinton will be the next president. Freep the poll at the link below and let's show them they are wrong as usual. Click Here to Freep Poll

W: That's very nice Bill...(When Can I get out of here? I got a country to run)

PARIS (AP)--Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says he's got a hunch that George W. Bush won't win another term at the White House. In Paris to promote his autobiography, Clinton called Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry a "strong leader and very capable" in an interview published Friday in Le Figaro newspaper. Though wars have helped sitting presidents win re-election in the past, Clinton said he didn't think Bush's handling of Iraq would work in the incumbent's favor this November. "My instinct tells me that the current situation does not guarantee Bush's re-election," Clinton was quoted as saying in comments that...

WASHINGTON — A long line greeted former President Bill Clinton in New York City for his book signing on Tuesday, and books flew off the shelves in Washington, D.C., and Arkansas. But not everyone in line was a fan of the president. "Just going through the index I was struck by the names that are not listed in there, especially people from the Communist Chinese fund-raising scandal from 1996, people like James Riady (search) and Johnny Chung (search). They're not in the index," said Clinton critic Kristinn Taylor, referring to two businessmen at the center of a 1996 campaign donation...

One of the biggest political events of 2004 may have nothing to do with the presidential election. It's the arrival of Bill Clinton's memoirs. The ex president is trying to finish his book in the next four months so it can be published at midyear. The book, to be published by Random House, will be the story of his life through his tumultuous presidency. Insiders say that it will have plenty of score settling with what his wife called the "vast right-wing conspiracy" but that it will also have quite a bit about his Arkansas boyhood. To hone his memories,...

WASHINGTON - You can take Clinton out of the White House, but you can't take Clintonites out of politics. If you didn't have a firm grip on the calendar, you might have looked up this month and sworn it was 1992 all over again: There was Bill Clinton, decked out in country denim, spinning Democratic homilies from a hay-bale stage in Iowa. Once, he talked about building a bridge to the future, but now he seems more intent on building a bridge to his past presidency. Then he was off to California to bask in the adoration of the Golden...

Sarajevo (dpa) - More than 20,000 people are expected to gather in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica on Saturday to attend a commemoration for the victims killed there during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an official said Thursday in Sarajevo. The mayor of the former Bosnian Moslem enclave of Srebrenica Abdurahman Malkic said huge crowds were expected to attend the opening of the Memorial Centre in the village of Potocari near Srebrenica, built in memory of the victims of the 1995 massacre in that area. Former United States president Bill Clinton is due to formally open the Memorial, paying...

June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Former President Bill Clinton earnedmore than $9.5 million making speeches in 2002, according tofinancial disclosures filed in Washington. That was $314,000 morethan he made in 2001, his first year out of the White House.     Clinton, 56, made about 60 speeches in the U.S. and abroad,including talks at PeopleSoft Inc., Compuware Corp., and theWarburg Pincus private equity fund. The two-term Democraticpresident commands as much as $400,000 a speech. His salary aspresident was $200,000 a year.     More than 70 percent of Clinton's fees came from engagementsoutside the U.S. In one week last May, the former president mademore...

The Man From Might Have Been In a way, it took Bill Clinton himself to tell his deflated fellow Democrats that the Clinton party is over. That was hardly his intended message when he spoke this week to his old colleagues at the Democratic Leadership Council, the faction that flourished for eight years under his "triangulation" strategy of stealing the electoral middle ground out from under the Republicans. Much of his speech was a recitation of accomplishments he has been tirelessly claiming for his presidency in wandering the political afterlife. But he also revised his signature campaign message to tell...