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Obama expanding diplomatic relations with Burma
Or is it Myanmar? For the first time in 50 years, the US will send its Secretary of State — our highest-ranking diplomat — to the nation of Burma, whose military junta had been shunned by Western...
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Inhofe to climate conference: Nobody’s listening any more
“You are being ignored, and you are being ignored by your biggest allies in the United States.” Two years ago, the Obama administration practically staged an airlift of leading Democratic officials to...
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WaPo critic oddly not in love with new NBC News correspondent
Unfair? When NBC announced that it would hire Chelsea Clinton as a new correspondent for their Rock Center show with Brian Williams, I was critical of the decision — mainly because the 32-year-old...
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Time for another Draft Hillary argument?
Unelectable? It’s December. We have three weeks left before the Democrats’ first primary contest in New Hampshire. It must be time to make one more pitch to draft Hillary Clinton as the nominee, and...
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Russia: What Iranian nuclear-weapon program?
Smart power. Say, remember when the Obama administration sent Hillary Clinton to Geneva with a “reset button” for Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to show that they would improve US-Russian...
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Chris Matthews to DWS: What I really want to know is, will Obama drop Biden...
Anything to recapture the thrill … Chris Matthews hasn’t been happy with President Barack Obama — and he’s kept up no pretenses that he is. The thrill is long gone. Now, it looks like he, like other...
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Write-in campaign for Hillary underway in New Hampshire
Could she pull off a Eugene McCarthy moment? Theoretically, Barack Obama is running unopposed for his party’s nomination for president in New Hampshire and across the country. In reality, he shares...
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Quotes of the day
Scandal. “Senior military officials in Kabul and at the Pentagon confirmed that the video was authentic and that they had identified the Marines as members of the Third Battalion, Second Marines,...
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Russia “resets” to nuclear-weapons, “military-purpose spacecraft” expansion
Smart power. In early 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a supposed “reset button,” intended to symbolize a new era of friendship between...
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Hillary: These Republicans are inflaming the situation in Afghanistan by...
Uh huh. I can see why she’s “somewhat troubled.” If there’s one thing the Democratic Party stood for between 2003 and 2008, it’s the principle that the opposition party should tread lightly when...
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Did Obama ignore plea for help from Iranian opposition in 2009?
Asked, answered … and ignored. Lost in the debate over whether the US should use military force to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is the opportunity that arguably arose nearly three years...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Doubletalk. After Barack Obama denied approval to the Keystone XL pipeline, he spent the next two weeks blaming Republicans for forcing him to make a decision on it — at least when he wasn’t blaming...
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The other primary in Oklahoma: Pro-life Democrat Randall Terry to challenge...
The pro-life banner is broad. As I wrote earlier today, Oklahoma is the reddest state in the country. In the 2008 election, every single county voted for John McCain. Barack Obama wasn’t popular in...
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“Game Change” author: “Totally pleased” with HBO’s adaptation of his book
As he would be. According to Townhall.com’s John Hanlon, HBO’s much-hyped “Game Change” was “everything conservatives feared it would be,” but author Mark Halperin is still pleased with it. It’s not...
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The obligatory “Hillary has a beer in Colombia” post
Plus: Dancing. The photos are here in case you missed them elsewhere, and here’s the obligatory pun-tastic New York Post cover. Two camps on this one: Team Gardiner, which thinks she’s an...
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Video: Former Dem VP candidate goes on trial today
Hiding behind his dead wife’s skirts? Eight years ago, he ran on the Democratic ticket for the second-highest political office in the country. Four years ago, he vied for the nomination in a tough...
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Flashback to 2008: Obama campaign outrageously outraged over Hillary’s use of...
“It’s ironic that she would borrow the President’s tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points.” I had honestly forgotten all about this kerfuffle, but ABC News’ Michael...
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Chen: I can’t help feeling like the U.S. lied to me “a little”
“If you can talk to Hillary, I hope she can help my whole family leave China.” I’ve been following this story all day since Ed’s post this morning and I still can’t keep straight what happened....
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The State Dept: Saving the world, one clean cookstove at a time
Priorities. Last week, much of the news revolving around Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s diplomatic visit to China was focused on the human-rights concerns surrounding blind Chinese dissident...
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New book explains why Hillary won’t be replacing Biden on the ticket this year
“Amateur,” “incompetent.” Still think that Barack Obama might pull a convention surprise and put Hillary Clinton on the ticket and bounce the human gaffe machine Joe Biden out of his administration?...
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