Bill's blockbuster: O's an 'amateur'
Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama - mocking him as an "amateur" - that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims...
Immigrants Trickling Back to Ala Despite Crackdown
Ana Jimenez and her husband were so terrified of being sent back to their native Mexico when Alabama's tough crackdown on illegal immigrants took effect that they fled more than 2000 miles to Los Angeles, cramming into a two-bedroom apartment with more ...
Iran stops oil sales to British, French companies
(Reuters) - Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state's lifeblood, oil.
AP Exclusive: Iran poised for big nuke jump
VIENNA (AP) -- Iran is poised to greatly expand uranium enrichment at a fortified underground bunker to a point that would boost how quickly it could make nuclear warheads, diplomats tell The Associated Press.
World Bank opens nomination process for top job
(Reuters) - The World Bank on Friday launched the nomination process to select a new president to succeed Robert Zoellick when he steps down in June, inviting names from any of its 187 member countries. Hillary Clinton maneuvering for the job?
Pope wants to see Fidel Castro on Cuba trip
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict wants to see Fidel Castro on his trip to Cuba next month but the meeting will depend on the health of the communist country's revolutionary leader, a senior Vatican official told Reuters on Saturday.
Muslim students across Northeast monitored by NYPD
AP NEW YORK - The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated ...
Gingrich and bold new solutions: a package deal
By David Sarasohn, The Oregonian With all the excitement about Mitt Romney trying to remind Michigan that he went to middle school there, and Rick Santorum suddenly leading the national polling after months of trailing Don't Know, we could be losing ...
Obama campaign raises $29 mn in January
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama's reelection campaign said Friday it had raised $29.1 million in January, with 98 percent of the donations worth $250 or less.
AMERICAN SUICIDE
Only there can you find The Divine POV through which to ingest, digest and eventually comprehend this diabolically doomed marriage between Marxism and Islamic Jihadists. That Infernally Odd Couple now threatens to destroy the entire Free World as we know it. But, given my own estimate of the child-aborting Free World, one must then ask, "Is the Free World worth saving?"
CPAC Delivers Indecisive Verdict
by Daniel Stone Feb 13, 2012 7:42 AM EST The web was abuzz last week as conservatives gathered for their annual political action conference, known simply in Washington as CPAC.
Obama campaign launches "truth team"
President Obama's re-election team on Monday rolled out a campaign to recruit two million supporters to help debunk attacks on the president's record and hit back at his Republican rivals.
Obama's budget revives battle over Bush tax cuts
By David Jackson, USA TODAY No one thinks the budget that the Obama administration unveils today at 11 am will become law -- not in an election year and not given the enmity between the president and congressional Republicans.
Emanuel Cleaver: Budget is nervous breakdown
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, warned Monday that the federal government should be weary of slashing spending too drastically as he called President Barack Obama's expected budget proposal a “nervous ...
Israel says bombs target embassies in India, Georgia
By Dan Williams | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement.
Oil Prices Top $100
By DAN STRUMPF NEW YORK—Crude-oil futures rose to their highest level in two weeks after Greece's parliament passed sweeping austerity measures, placing it in line for another bailout.