Kyle SmithBlog: Movies When it comes to the feminist version of history (sorry — herstory!), it’s hurrah for Gloria Steinem. She started a magazine nobody ever read. And cheers for Billie Jean King, the tennis player who proved a young professional athlete could beat a 55-year-old slob. Give it up for Indira Gandhi and Hillary [...]

How do I feel about Barack Obama? He seems like a good guy. Wait … why are we even asking this question? Why aren’t we discussing the various approaches for getting our country back on track and their merits?   Why does the media care so much about how we “feel” about Obama? Or any [...]

Re-election campaigns often suffer from familiarity, giving them a kind of “been there, done that” feeling, and it really helps to shake things up a bit, (in a good way, not in a “Sarah Palin” kind of way), and Reich maintains that this year Obama especially needs to stir up the base, many of whom [...]

IT’S not often that a political wife presents herself as The Decider. There’s too much danger of straying into Lady Macbeth territory, as Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton discovered when some sniped that they were wearing the pants. But as Iowa reaches a crescendo, three Republican wives say they’re forcing their humble, self-effacing mates to [...]

print By Mark Landler / New York Times News Service Published: December 31. 2011 4:00AM PST HONOLULU — President Barack Obama has long relied on his oratorical gifts to ease him through tricky political situations. But on the emotionally charged issue of gay rights, Obama has been content recently to let his lieutenants do the [...]

You must be taling about Scientology. Ron Pauls son is a member of the Cult. Ron has made promises to Scientology to support Mental issues, IRS, Medicines, pravacy concerns, etc. ————————————————– To Mitt: Mitt, Staff, take a little time and watch the cspan video, that is what your VP will be up against. Hope you [...]

Lets be blunt. The Islamic Republic of Iran is and has always been the major problem and danger in the Middle East and internationally. President Barack Hussein Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, have pursued, at best, a policy of appeasement that has not worked – even assuming their intentions are genuine, which [...]

Mrs. Rajavi repeated the readiness of Ashraf residents to relocate to Camp Liberty with minimal assurances and said: The residents of Ashraf welcome Secretary Clinton’s statement and anything that is contrary to the statement and its spirit will be unacceptable. After receiving assurances and the letter of Mr. Martin Kobler, SRSG, to Ashraf residents, Mrs. [...]

Each leads their category with 17% of votes in top 10 lists that favor the most familiar names in global politics, religion, entertainment and culture. Linda Dinco, 62, of Latrobe, Pa., says she named Obama and Secretary of State Clinton for their “intelligence and their toughness.” PHOTOS: 2011 Year in Pictures INTERACTIVE: Quiz! Top stories [...]

As Abe Lincoln geared up for his re-election campaign in 1864, the Republican unceremoniously jettisoned his first-term vice-president and picked Andrew Johnson, a southerner from the rival Democratic Party, as his surprising running mate. Lincoln hoped to broaden the administration’s appeal after four years of the catastrophic Civil War, and the gambit seemed to work. [...]

<!– –>   Tweet – A A A + <!– –>  WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) — Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich blogged on his website this week that President Obama “needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of the democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive republicans,” and suggested that could be accomplished [...]

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continued their reigns as Americans’ most admired man and woman in 2011, as first lady Michelle Obama jumped up a spot from her previous ranking, according to a poll out Tuesday. Both Obama and Clinton once again hold the honor of the most admired man and [...]

In a moment that evoked the famous tear shed by Hillary Clinton on the eve of her upset win in the 2008 New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich choked up Friday morning in front of a group of moms, recalling his mother, Kit, who died in 2003. “I identify my mother with being [...]

The year began with a new Congress that promised to focus on jobs, a State of the Union in which a president turned his focus on infrastructure investment, an anti-worker energy sweeping statehouses and a GOP Primary destined to be dominated by Sarah Palin. A year can turn out very different from how we imagined [...]

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Well, it seems the Obama team lately was running short of things over which to bash Israel and so it decided that the treatment of women in Israel is something that needs condemnation. Led by Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration thinks that Israel does not treat its women nicely or respectfully enough.  This is the same [...]

Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum speaks to the congregation at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Coralville, Iowa December 11, 2011. (JEFF HAYNES – REUTERS) Four years ago, in 2007, we faith and values pundits were pondering Mitt Romney’s coupling of secularism and radical Jihadism in a memorable December speech. We were [...]

WASHINGTON — Dorothy Rodham, mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton’s mother-in-law, died Tuesday at age 92 after an illness. The family said Rodham died shortly after midnight, surrounded by her family in Washington. The secretary of state cancelled a planned trip to London and Istanbul to be at [...]

<!– –>   Tweet – A A A + <!– –>   WASHINGTON,DC (WUSA) — Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich blogged on his website this week that President Obama “needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of the democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive republicans,” and suggested that could be accomplished [...]

… The deal would also make Clinton the obvious Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 — offering the Democrats a shot at twelve (or more) years in the White House, something the Republicans had with Ronald Reagan and the first George Bush but which the Democrats haven’t had since FDR. Twelve years gives the party in [...]

(RTTNews) – Despite his low job approval ratings, the results of a Gallup poll released Tuesday showed that Americans continue to name President Barack Obama as the Most Admired Man living today. The poll showed that 17 percent of Americans named Obama as the man they most admire, well above the 3 percent that named [...]

Hillary Clinton’s Human Rights Day speech has been deemed a historic moment not just for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights movement, but for the nation as a whole. Now, the State Department is offering a new spin on Clinton’s speech, during which she noted “gay rights are human rights,” by turning it [...]

Hungary’s government says it has received a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which she reportedly expresses concerns about a perceived crackdown on democratic freedom in the country, more than two decades after Hungary threw out the Communist regime. The letter arrived just days after the European Commission urged Hungary to withdraw [...]

Hillary Clinton’s Human Rights Day speech has been deemed a historic moment not just for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights movement, but for the nation as a whole. Now, the State Department is offering a new spin on Clinton’s speech, during which she noted “gay rights are human rights,” by turning it [...]

Commentator Robert Reich, who was secretary of labor in Bill Clinton’s administration, is predicting that President Obama will dump Vice President Joe Biden and replace him with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. The move, which was mentioned as a possibility earlier this year, is bubbling to the surface again [...]

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The idea that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will jump onto the Democratic ticket in 2012 has a new proponent in former labor secretary Robert Reich. Reich, who served under President Bill Clinton and currently is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, blogged on his website Wednesday that an Obama-Clinton ticket is “a [...]

Four years ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were battling each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now, Mrs. Clinton is President Obama’s secretary of state, and together they top the lists as the Gallup poll’s most admired woman and most admired man of 2011. Most Admired Woman, 2011 Most Admired Man, 2011 Mrs. [...]

Maryam Rajavi expresses gratitude to Secretary Hillary Clinton for humanitarian approach to safety and security of Ashraf residents and to UN Secretary General, Special Representative of Secretary General for Iraq, EU High Representative, and UNHCR Mrs. Rajavi announced that after receiving assurances and the letter of Mr. Martin Kobler, SRSG for Iraq, and as a [...]

My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President. So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton. Why do I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the [...]

Americans named President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as their “Most Admired Man” and “Most Admired Woman,” according to a USA Today/Gallup survey released Tuesday. Gallup asked respondents, without prompting, the man and woman whom they admired most in the world. Clinton has topped the list for the past 10 years and [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were named by Americans as the Most Admired Man and Most Admired Woman living today in any part of the world, in a Gallup poll. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman for each of the last 10 years, and Obama has been the Most [...]

Sixty years ago this month, the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, better known as the Refugee Convention, began the ratification process. It, and the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which followed a decade later, “Laid a marker for human compassion on a global scale,” said Secretary of State Hillary [...]

AS CARLOS PASCUAL SEES IT, energy is at the core of America’s power and influence in the world. The Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have tapped Pascual, the former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, to head a significant ramp up of the resources our government dedicates to advance the combined energy and strategic [...]

When it comes to admiration, nothing succeeds like success, according to the latest Gallup poll, which finds that this year’s most admired man and woman are President Obama and his erstwhile political rival, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. If that sounds familiar, it should. Obama won for the fourth consecutive time while Clinton has [...]

President Obama and Hillary Clinton are once again at the top of the admired list. According to a USA Today/Gallup poll, they are the most admired man and woman in the world in 2011. Each top their category with 17 percent of votes. Clinton has been the most admired woman by for a record 16 [...]

Hillary Clinton named most admired woman for record 16th time Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has dropped from second to fourth By Mary Mcconnell Last updated at 11:11 AM on 28th December 2011 Barack Obama has topped a list of Americans’ most admired men, even though his presidential approval ratings stand at just 47 per [...]

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continue to be named by Americans as the Most Admired Man and Most Admired Woman living today in any part of the world.  While Obama has been the Most Admired Man four years in a row Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the [...]

<!– Share Email Print –> Share Email Print Op-Ed: A letter of concern for American democracy By Jason Edelstein · December 27, 2011 Photos 1 out of 1 Other Media Jason Edelstein <!– 1 out of 1 Previous Forward Other Media Makoto Otsuka, director general of the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Japan, with visiting [...]

The Irish Times – Wednesday, December 28, 2011 BUDAPEST – US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has voiced concerns over democratic freedom in Hungary in a letter to the prime minister, local media said yesterday. A spokesman for prime minister Viktor Orbán confirmed he had received a letter from Mrs Clinton, but did not disclose [...]

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton continue to be named by Americans as the most Admired Man and most admired woman living today in any part of the world. While Obama has been the most admired man four years in a row Clinton has been the most admired woman each of [...]

<!– Share Email Print –> Share Email Print Op-Ed: A letter of concern for American democracy By Jason Edelstein · December 27, 2011 Photos 1 out of 1 Other Media Jason Edelstein <!– 1 out of 1 Previous Forward Other Media Makoto Otsuka, director general of the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Japan, with visiting [...]

December 27, 2011, 8:20 PM EST By Douglas Lytle and Lenka Ponikelska (Updates with Havel’s casket taken to crematorium, in ninth paragraph.) Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Czech former President Vaclav Havel, whose resistance to totalitarian regimes helped topple Communism in 1989, was remembered at a mass attended by world leaders, including David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy [...]

PRINCETON, NJ — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama continue to be named by Americans as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man living today in any part of the world. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 10 years, and Obama has been the Most Admired [...]

(AFP) – 7 hours ago  BUDAPEST — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent a letter to Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban expressing concern over the state of the country’s democracy, a government spokesman in Budapest said Tuesday. Clinton “basically put her earlier words into writing,” Peter Szijjarto told Hungarian newswire MTI. On a visit [...]

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continued their reigns as Americans’ most admired man and woman in 2011, as First Lady Michelle Obama jumped up a spot from her previous ranking, according to a poll out Tuesday. Both Obama and Clinton once again hold the honor of the most admired man and [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed her concerns about the state of Hungary’s democracy in a letter to Premier Viktor Orban, Nepszabadsag reported on its website, citing unidentified officials in Washington. Clinton wrote about her concerns for the erosion of checks and balances, for the overhaul of the judiciary and for the freedom of [...]

Ross William Hamilton/The OregonianHillary Clinton campaigns at Liberty HIgh School in Hillsboro on April 5, 2008.While I’m away, I am following my usual practice of running interesting political photos from the files of The Oregonian.  With the presidential primary season kicking off next week in Iowa, I decided to focus on past presidential campaign visits [...]

Unless there’s a really big shift in sentiment among members of Congress on both sides of the ideological aisle, some version of the Stop Online Privacy Act is going to be passed by Congress sometime in 2012. That means the legislation is going to wind up on President Barack Obama’s desk, requiring his signature, which [...]

WASHINGTON — When Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, she promised to bring 200,000 jobs to upstate New York. But between January 2001, when Clinton was sworn in as a senator, and January 2010, when she resigned to become secretary of state, the northern suburbs and upstate region lost more than 100,000 [...]

Hartsook arranged the cards in four separate cases, and dubbed the show “Christmas on the Potomac.” They are arranged with presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and “hodge-podge” themes, the librarian said. Hartsook said the library started exhibiting such cards about 18 years ago. All have been drawn from the collections of political papers donated to the library [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday praised a United Nations-brokered deal with Iraq to resettle the more than 3,000 residents of Camp Ashraf, a refugee camp north of Baghdad. “We are encouraged by the Iraqi government’s willingness to commit to this plan, and expect it to fulfill all its responsibilities,” Clinton said in a [...]

WASHINGTON — When Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, she promised to bring 200,000 jobs to upstate New York. But between January 2001, when Clinton was sworn in as a senator, and January 2010, when she resigned to become secretary of state, the northern suburbs and upstate region lost more than 100,000 [...]

Washington – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Iraq has agreed to relocate more than 3,000 people living in a refugee camp for an Iranian dissident movement. Camp Ashraf is a compound operated by the People’s Mujahidin of Iran (PMOI) in Iraq’s Diyala province. After a deadly clash with Ashraf residents this [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday praised a United Nations-brokered deal with Iraq to resettle the more than 3,000 residents of Camp Ashraf, a refugee camp north of Baghdad. “We are encouraged by the Iraqi government’s willingness to commit to this plan, and expect it to fulfill all its responsibilities,” Clinton said in a [...]

In his dozen years of leading Russia, Vladimir Putin has been the one doing the talking. Now he may have to learn how to be a listener. The protests against Putin and his party that arose in more than 60 Russian cities on December 10, including a vast demonstration a few hundred yards from the [...]

Additionally, travel on the segregated busses is optional, and passengers are free to choose to travel on vehicles that allow mixed seating. The ‘majority rules’ principle of liberal democracy applies in many ways on a localized level as well as a national one, and as is almost always the case the minority is subjected to [...]

The U.S. State Department has produced a video in which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is appealing for recognition and support of gay rights. The Video, http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/video/2011/12/20111219142526aerdna0.5667492.html#axzz1hX5PibOE  is also available on the USA embassy website in Lusaka The text by Clinton in the video are reproduced below: I am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual [...]

» 155 comments Bill O’Reilly opened his show announcing a particularly exciting interview double-header today– yes, 2012 Republican candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich would be on the program, but not before an extended interview with his former nemesis, former President Bill Clinton. O’Reilly got the former President’s opinion on just about every political [...]

I got out of bed the other morning, on the same side as usual, but somehow stubbed my toe. This, it turns out, was a good thing. What started out as a sharp pain wore down to discomfort and finally disappeared sometime before the evening. But at least I didn’t have to keep pinching myself [...]

Like so much involving Hillary Clinton, Sunday’s departure of her campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, has gotten tons of attention, but its larger significance has been somewhat misunderstood. I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last two years reporting on “Hillaryland,” as Clinton’s inner circle is known, for pieces like this one and [...]

AP Dec. 8, 2011: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a speech at the Conference on Internet Freedom in The Hague, Netherlands. PYONGYANG, North Korea –  The Obama administration called for a peaceful and stable leadership transition in North Korea on Monday but made few demands on a nuclear-armed nation known for its unpredictability, poverty [...]

On The O’Reilly Factor Tuesday night, the host asked Bill Clinton whether he agreed that the press had favored then-Sen. Barack Obama over his wife, current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when they were running against each other in 2008. Clinton didn’t hesitate to say yes. However, he’s not so sure that Obama will get [...]

Anthony Weiner, disgraced politician, ends the year with this upbeat Blackberry text: “Jordan Zain Weiner … 7lbs 5.8 oz of sparkling wonder; Did I mention his mom is amazing?; We love you for welcoming him.” Gothamist offers a report on the text that Weiner sent to friends after the birth of his son Tuesday. The [...]

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First [...]

December 23, 2011 4:14 pm By Hal Weitzman in Davenport, Iowa Article source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f61c6886-2d2f-11e1-b985-00144feabdc0.html

“Europe owes Vaclav Havel a profound debt,” said Mr Cameron before leaving London. “Havel led the Czech people out of tyranny … and he helped bring freedom and democracy to our entire continent.” Pope Benedict XVI also paid tribute to Havel. “I remember how Mr. Havel defended human rights courageously at a time when they [...]

Washington:  Concerned over the continued violence and abuse of women demonstrators in Egypt, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri to register deep US unease about the situation, particularly the attacks on women. The call came after Clinton earlier this week called the treatment of the women a “disgrace” [...]

Aleksandr Voronstov,Head of the Korean Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, says now that North Korea is undergoing the process of power transition there’s a good opportunity to establish a positive relationship with the new leadership. In this sense, it would be worth engaging North Korea in another round of six-party talks [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told you a thousand times, America: she’s not running for President. So why are mysterious robo calls being made on her behalf? And why are emails urging voters to gently nag Hillary until she runs eerily appearing in the inboxes of some Democrats? And why is there a Hillary [...]

Enlarge image Funeral for Havel in Prague Carsten Koall/Getty Images Prague Castle guards hold flags before the beginning of the ceremony of the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel at St. Vitus Cathedral on Dec. 23, 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. Prague Castle guards hold flags before the beginning of the ceremony of [...]

(Repeats, editing first paragraph) CAIRO, Dec 21 (Reuters) – The Egyptian foreignminister said on Wednesday that Egypt would not accept anyinterference in its internal affairs, in response to criticismby U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the way securityforces dealt with women protesters. In a speech on Monday, Clinton criticised the actions ofEgyptian security forces [...]

I went to law school in hopes of pursuing a career in the public service sector. Though it hasn’t exactly turned out as planned, I’m still doing what I love, covering the field here in Kindness. So, it was personally inspiring to witness the launch of Secretary of State’s Hillary Clinton’s new initiative aimed at [...]

Hillary Clinton’s people — current and former — are mystified, suspicious and bit peeved with the recent raft of mysterious “Draft Hillary” robocalls and emails and a mangy www.runhillary2012.net web site – which looks like it was produced in the Hindu Kush. The current theory, according to posts on a listserv frequented by former Clinton [...]

On Dec. 1, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was photographed standing with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the Nobel Prize winner’s Rangoon home. In a blinding acknowledgment of its historic importance, hundreds of cameras flashed simultaneously. I was watching it on television. It was a big moment for women, the sight [...]

As the civil war in Syria continues and the ethnic tension is rising, the country’s Sunnis are threatening the Alawite minority against their continued support of President Bashar Assad, who is an Alawite himself. Mamoun al-Homsy, a former Syrian MP and one of the country’s opposition leaders, has reportedly recently distributed a recorded message to [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iran on Friday to take up the offer from the United States and other powers to negotiate a halt to its suspect nuclear activities. “We have made clear our desire to resolve issues with Iran, diplomatically. Iran must now decide whether to join us in this effort,” Clinton [...]

Hillary Clinton’s people — current and former — are mystified, suspicious and bit peeved with the recent raft of mysterious “Draft Hillary” robocalls and emails and a mangy www.runhillary2012.net web site – which looks like it was produced in the Hindu Kush. The current theory, according to posts on a listserv frequented by former Clinton [...]

Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:43am EST * EU law to impose carbon cost on all airlines from Jan. 1 * Airlines say EU regulation unfair, unilateral * EU climate commissioner hails ruling as crystal clear * U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote to EU By Michele Sinner and Barbara Lewis LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS, Dec 21 (Reuters) [...]

NEW YORK — Former New York City Congressman Anthony Weiner is ending a rough year with some good news. The disgraced Democrat and his wife Huma Abedin are welcoming their first child, a boy. A spokeswoman for Weiner says Jordan Zain Weiner was born Wednesday. Weiner resigned from Congress in June amid outrage over sexually [...]

Robo-calls touting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as president have been placed in Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Clinton has repeatedly denied she has any intention of running for president and the source of the calls remains a mystery, The Washington Post reported. “America would be better off today if Hillary [...]

During an interview that aired on Fox News on Tuesday night, Bill Clinton signaled his belief that the media favored then-candidate Barack Obama over his wife, Hillary Clinton, during the 2008 primary campaign. When asked if he believes there was a disparity in how the big name Democrats were covered by the press, Clinton responded, [...]

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The Yomiuri Shimbun We hope the change of leadership in North Korea will be a chance to resolve the long-pending issues of that country’s nuclear development program and abduction of Japanese nationals. During their meeting in Washington on Monday, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed it was important to [...]

Bill and Hillary Clinton greet Vaclav Havel at the White House, 1998. (Stephen Jaffe/AFP ) Hillary Clinton will lead the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Václav Havel, the White House announced Thursday. The secretary of state will be joined by Bill Clinton — they hosted the late former president of the Czech Republic [...]

Concerned over the continued violence and abuse of women demonstrators in Egypt, the Secretary of State, Ms Hillary Clinton, has called the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mr Kamal el-Ganzouri, to register deep US unease about the situation, particularly the attacks on women. The call came after Ms Clinton earlier this week called the treatment of the [...]

EPA/MOHAMED OMAREgyptian women shout slogans during a protest to condemn the army’s use of violence against female protesters, in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 20, 2011. AP Photo | EVAN VUCCISecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Do women in power make a difference? After the awful situation in Egypt, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s swift [...]

Forget the 3 a.m. call. What about that robo-call at 4 in the afternoon on the Monday before Christmas in Maryland? And on Tuesday in Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Florida, New York and Arizona? “America would be better off today if Hillary Clinton was our president,” recites a woman sounding a little bit like, [...]

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton may come, too, Tancevova said. The U.S. presidential delegation will probably consist of four persons, including U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen. The delegation will arrive aboard a special plane between 10:00 and 11:00 on Friday and will stay until roughly 15:00 in Prague, according to the unofficial [...]

During an interview that aired on Fox News on Tuesday night, Bill Clinton signaled his belief that the media favored then-candidate Barack Obama over his wife, Hillary Clinton, during the 2008 primary campaign. When asked if he believes there was a disparity in how the big name Democrats were covered by the press, Clinton responded, [...]

EPA/MOHAMED OMAREgyptian women shout slogans during a protest to condemn the army’s use of violence against female protesters, in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 20, 2011. AP Photo | EVAN VUCCISecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Do women in power make a difference? After the awful situation in Egypt, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s swift [...]

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Other pictures circulating on social media networks that have enraged protesters include one of a military policeman looming over a sobbing elderly woman with his truncheon. “Recent events in Egypt have been particularly shocking. Women are being beaten and humiliated in the same streets where they risked their lives for the revolution only a few [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration called for a peaceful and stable leadership transition in North Korea on Monday but made few demands on a nuclear-armed nation known for its unpredictability, poverty and hostility to the United States. Prospects for new nuclear disarmament talks involving North Korea and the United States appeared to dim with [...]

Takashi Imai / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer WASHINGTON–Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed Monday to beef up trilateral cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the United States in the wake of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The meeting between Gemba and Clinton, held at the [...]

Follow the mail on Twitter. MINISTER of foreign affairs Erato Kozakou Marcoullis met her US counterpart Hillary Clinton yesterday in Washington during her visit to America. During the 45-minute meeting, the two ministers discussed the Cyprus problem, the upcoming Cyprus presidency of the EU in the second half of 2012 and its implications and the [...]

“America would be better off today if Hillary Clinton was our president,” recites a woman sounding a little bit like, but definitely not, Hillary Clinton. “The Wall Street robber barons would be jailed, young people could afford college and find jobs and 6 million homeowners wouldn’t face foreclosure.” And? And please go to RunHillary2012.net and [...]

Joseph Curl, former White House correspondent for the Washington Times, wrote that Rice could provide a much needed addition to the Republican race, strongly suggesting that she is the silver bullet for the vice presidential slot. This comes amid reports that an anonymous group has arranged robocalls pushing Hillary Clinton as a spoiler democratic nominee, [...]

Chad Fisher The advent of social networking has created a sort of political vacuum just waiting to be filled by both candidates and constituents. Before President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, few candidates had utilized social media to its fullest potential, but when Obama’s successful bid for presidency was built upon grassroots efforts on Facebook [...]

(Reuters) – Egyptian police and soldiers firing guns and teargas fought to clear protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, the fifth day of clashes that have killed 13 people and drawn a stinging rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton condemned as “particularly shocking” incidents such as one in which two Egyptian [...]

Share This Post 1 submit 7   The Women in Public Service Project, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s new initiative to shepherd a new generation of women into politics and policymaking around the globe, could prove to be the most significant public diplomacy move since the Kennedy Administration launched the Peace Corps fifty years ago. [...]

By Meghan Keneally Last updated at 11:35 PM on 19th December 2011 Michele Bachmann may be the only woman officially in the presidential 2012 race, but that may not be the case for long. Speculation is mounting that one former and the current female secretaries of state- Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton- will inject some [...]

WASHINGTON — Over the past 24 hours, a number of voters in a not-insignificant number of states have received robocalls laying out just what a horrific mistake Democrats made in not electing Hillary Clinton as their nominee in 2008. The call, sponsored by a mysterious organization “Run Hillary 2012,” urges recipients to sign a petition [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that the United States hopes for improved relations with the rogue nation, while remaining concerned about the well-being of its people. “We reiterate our hope for improved relations with the people of North Korea and remain deeply concerned [...]

She denounced a “deeply troubling pattern” of military authorities and the major political parties alike keeping Egyptian women out of decision-making. “At the same time, they have been specifically targeted both by security forces and extremists,” the top US diplomat said. “Women protesters have been rounded up and subjected to horrific abuse. Journalists have been [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on December 19, 2011. (Credit: CBS) Updated: 5:17 p.m. ET Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday expressed hope that the United States would see “improved relations” with North Korea in the aftermath of the death of Kim Jong Il, [...]

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Hillary Clinton fans can still dream, can’t they? A group calling itself “Run Hillary 2012” has begun making robo calls asking people to visit their website and sign a petition urging the Secretary of State to enter the race. “America would be better off today if Hillary Clinton was our president,” the caller says, according [...]

She denounced a “deeply troubling pattern” of military authorities and the major political parties alike keeping Egyptian women out of decision-making. “At the same time, they have been specifically targeted both by security forces and extremists,” the top US diplomat said. “Women protesters have been rounded up and subjected to horrific abuse. Journalists have been [...]

A reader emailed to say he had received a robocall late this afternoon at his Riverdale (Bronx) home advocating a draft effort to get Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2012. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have caller ID, so it’s unclear where this call originated. He did play me the recording, which [...]

1:33 PM PT: Listened to the message 4 times i believe they were saying rodhillary2012.net and asking to sign petition..now i am very curious but couldn’t quite make it out. Now for some research thanks for listening Article source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/19/1046960/-Hillary-Clinton-Robocall?via=siderecent

Well this is sorta interesting… From RunHillary2012.net About an hour ago I got a robocall at my San Francisco home asking us to sign a petition urging Hillary Clinton to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. The call mentions the site Run Hillary 2012.net. Apparently, this is a multi-state campaign. Published reports from the New [...]

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For some Hillary Clinton 2008 supporters, the dream is apparently still alive — an anonymous group is making robocalls advocating for a Hillary presidential run next year. The calls are reportedly being made by the group Run Hillary 2012, but there’s no audio available. The group’s site has videos and lists positive comments about Clinton, but apart from a [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on December 19, 2011. (Credit: CBS) Updated: 3:18 p.m. ET Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday expressed hope that the United States would see “improved relations” with North Korea in the aftermath of the death of Kim Jong Il, [...]

Nancy Reagan told a generation to “Just say no.” Hillary Clinton aimed for comprehensive health-care reform. And Michelle Obama is taking on childhood obesity. While the first lady of Phoenix doesn’t carry the same weight and influence as being the wife of a U.S. president, Nicole France Stanton said that doesn’t mean she’s not going [...]

Kabul — NATO/G8 meetings are scheduled to take place from May 19-21 next year in Chicago. Plans are ramping up everywhere. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen exulted over bringing NATO and the G8 to Chicago, and Clinton promised to call Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and convey Rasmussen’s glowing opinion [...]

December 19, 2011, 8:32 AM EST By Nicole Gaouette Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton would like to see more women in government around the world. She said she knows “how daunting it is” for women to consider a public-service career, yet “we need women at every level of government from executive mansions and foreign [...]

Nancy Reagan told a generation to “Just say no.” Hillary Clinton aimed for comprehensive health-care reform. And Michelle Obama is taking on childhood obesity. While the first lady of Phoenix doesn’t carry the same weight and influence as being the wife of a U.S. president, Nicole France Stanton said that doesn’t mean she’s not going [...]

Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Swanee Hunt’s mission is to achieve gender parity, especially as a means to end war and rebuild societies. At Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy. In 1997 she founded the Women [...]

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday decried Belarus’ record of human rights abuses since a crackdown on dissent a year ago, and warned that US relations with it will not improve without progress on that front. In a statement marking the anniversary of the crackdown, Clinton called on Belarusian authorities to free all political [...]

  Protestors stand in front of a wall built by troops to separate them from protesters, during clashes with riot police in central Cairo on Dec. 18, 2011 for the third straight day of violence. (Xinhua/Ahmad Radi) Article source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2011-12/19/c_131314298.htm

LAURA WASHINGTON LauraSWashington@aol.com December 18, 2011 9:10PM Reprints Laura Washington How about a Clinton/Gingrich rematch? No one is better at getting Newt Gingrich’s nose out of joint than Hillary Clinton. If the former U.S. House Speaker continues his presidential surge, look for Secretary of State Clinton to sign on as Barack Obama’s new running mate. [...]

(AFP) – 3 hours ago  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday decried Belarus’ record of human rights abuses since a crackdown on dissent a year ago, and warned that US relations with it will not improve without progress on that front. In a statement marking the anniversary of the crackdown, Clinton called [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Twelve Barnard students gathered in the nation’s capital Thursday to hear from women leaders from around the world. The Women in Public Service Project, a State Department initiative begun this spring, is a mentorship program encouraging students at Barnard and four other women’s colleges to enter careers in public service and politics. The project [...]

When we gave Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton our “good year” in 2010, we thought she was headed toward a little bit of a letdown in 2011. Boy, were we wrong. (Mental note: Stop counting out the Clintons.) In a year in which almost anyone associated with the Obama administration turned to dross — [...]

Mrs Clinton attended an international conference on Afghanistan in Bonn yesterday and will take part in an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe gathering in Vilnius before flying to Geneva. She will then attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels and give a speech on Internet freedom in The Hague before flying back [...]

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(AFP) – 8 hours ago  NEW YORK — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that women were being sidelined in the hoped-for transition to democracy in Egypt, including during the current parliamentary elections. “In Egypt, women have been largely excluded from the transition process and even harassed in the street,” Clinton said in [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday ended the “Istanbul Process,” a three-day, closed-door international conference hosted by the State Department on measures to combat religious “intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization.” The conference was intended to “implement” last March’s UN Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18, on the same subject. Notwithstanding Clinton’s final speech defending freedoms [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s success as secretary of state has prompted some to wonder if we wouldn’t just be better off with her as president. Comedians Steve Waltien and Kate James (aka everyone’s favorite Drunk Cubs Fan) take a stroll through time, and visit with famous historical women like Abigail Adams, Marie Curie and Susan B. Anthony to [...]

Enlarge image U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Women In Public Service Project at the Department of State in Washington, DC. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Women In Public Service Project at the Department of State in Washington, DC. Photographer: Chip [...]

Josh Rogin reports on national security and foreign policy from the Pentagon to Foggy Bottom, the White House to Embassy Row, for The Cable. Read More Article source: http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/16/clinton_says_goodbye_to_500_state_department_employees

Hillary Clinton’s success as secretary of state has prompted some to wonder if we wouldn’t just be better off with her as president. Comedians Steve Waltien and Kate James (aka everyone’s favorite Drunk Cubs Fan) take a stroll through time, and visit with famous historical women like Abigail Adams, Marie Curie and Susan B. Anthony to [...]

Enlarge image U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Women In Public Service Project at the Department of State in Washington, DC. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Women In Public Service Project at the Department of State in Washington, DC. Photographer: Chip [...]

7 December 2011 Last updated at 05:53 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Hillary Clinton: “Being gay is not a western invention, it is a human reality” The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against gays and lesbians abroad by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform. Secretary [...]

Re: “Should a Democrat challenge President Obama in 2012?” Dec. 11 point-counterpoint columns. Hillary Clinton is smarter than those hoping she will make a bid against President Obama in 2012. She won’t. Hillary has served her country well in these volatile times as secretary of state in a close partnership with the president. The assumption [...]

Hillary Clinton would like to see more women in government around the world. She said she knows “how daunting it is” for women to consider a public-service career, yet “we need women at every level of government from executive mansions and foreign ministries to municipal halls and planning commissions, from negotiation international disarmament treaties to [...]

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“We are working together to protect two fundamental freedoms — the right to practice one’s religion freely, and the right to express one’s opinion without fear,” Clinton said in her closing remarks. The goal of the Istanbul Process is to produce a list of best practices for preventing religious discrimination and violence. Ambassador Michael Kozak, [...]

December 16, 2011, 4:01 AM EST By Nicole Gaouette Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton would like to see more women in government around the world. She said she knows “how daunting it is” for women to consider a public-service career, yet “we need women at every level of government from executive mansions and foreign [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday the United States hopes it can work with Russia on the draft resolution it proposed to the UN Security Council on the Syria crisis. Though Clinton said Washington had differences with Moscow on the draft, Clinton said it was the “first time” that Russia has recognized the [...]

Hillary Clinton’s soaring speech on international LGBT issues was game changing. An historic address of this magnitude was desperately needed to counter the rising tide of backwards and barbaric nations that had recently been persecuting LGBT people to distract from their glaring problems. “I want to talk about the work we have left to do [...]

By Josef Kuhn Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a summit of international leaders this week to explore specific steps to combat intolerance, discrimination and violence on the basis of religion or belief. The closed-door meeting on Wednesday (Dec. 14) was the first of an ongoing series called “The [...]

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On December 6th, in a speech in Geneva marking international human rights day, Secretary of State Clinton called for all nations to embrace the goals of LGBT activism, declaring that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” and that, “It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used an international conference on religious freedom Wednesday as a platform to suggest that Islamic governments which suppress Christianity are secretly afraid Islam will lose out in a public debate. “Every one of us who is a religious person knows there are some who may not support or approve of our [...]

December 15, 2011, 4:34 AM EST By David Lerman (Updates with Kiir comments in fourth and fifth paragraphs.) Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today urged governments and businesses to provide “intensive care” to the newly independent nation of South Sudan. Clinton also called on the government of South Sudan to [...]

Cindy Adams Two weeks ago Hillary Clinton met Nobel winner Aung San Suu Kyi, housewife-turned-opposition-politician of Burma (now called Myanmar), head of the country’s National League for Democracy, leader of its people, just released from decades of house arrest. Malaysia’s Michelle Yeoh, from the James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” and Oscar-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden [...]

About this Blog: Jack Cafferty sounds off hourly on the Situation Room on the stories crossing his radar. Now, you can check in with Jack online to see what he’s thinking and weigh in with your own comments online and on TV. About Jack Cafferty Subscribe | Send Feedback Article source: http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/14/is-mitt-romney-the-hillary-clinton-of-2012/?hpt=hp_t2

New York, Dec 14 (TruthDive): Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now an NBC News correspondent. She said she wants a name for herself rather than being under the shadow of her parents. She presented Nightly News on Monday night and contributed to the network’s new [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker, appearing in an interview format with PBS NewsHour Executive Editor Jim Lehrer. “What we’ve tried to do in the State Department is to demonstrate clearly that economic state craft is an essential part of American diplomacy,” Clinton said. Lehrer didn’t stick entirely to innovation, taking the [...]

About this Blog: Jack Cafferty sounds off hourly on the Situation Room on the stories crossing his radar. Now, you can check in with Jack online to see what he’s thinking and weigh in with your own comments online and on TV. About Jack Cafferty Subscribe | Send Feedback Article source: http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/14/is-mitt-romney-the-hillary-clinton-of-2012/?hpt=hp_t2

Of all political style stories to follow, we find it most interesting to track politicians’ hair. After all, unlike skin tone or body shape, hair is one of the most mutable aspects of one’s physical appearance — so how one chooses to cut it, color it or style it says a lot. Mitt Romney, for [...]

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton briefly weighed into domestic politics today and called Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s characterization of the Palestinians as “invented” people unhelpful. In an interview last week with the Jewish Channel, Gingrich said, “I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are, in fact, Arabs, and were historically [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker, appearing in an interview format with PBS NewsHour Executive Editor Jim Lehrer. “What we’ve tried to do in the State Department is to demonstrate clearly that economic state craft is an essential part of American diplomacy,” Clinton said. Lehrer didn’t stick entirely to innovation, taking the [...]

“We are supportive of the rights and aspirations of the Russian people to be able to make progress and realize a better future for themselves.” Russian opposition leaders have begun to express concern about how the Kremlin will react to Saturday’s protest, spawned by growing outrage at multiple examples of electoral fraud. Nearly 30,000 people [...]

McGill history professor Gil Troy – a passionate moderate, author of Why I Am A Zionist and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem – looks at the American presidency, American history, Zionism, Judaism and Israel today. Article source: http://blogs.jpost.com/node/2696

There have been times over the last three years when I wondered if we all might have been better off had Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Then reality sets in as it did last week when I read about a speech she gave in Geneva to celebrate “International Human Rights Day.” [...]

The presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney carries some eerie similarities to that of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic race, Politico reports. Both came into their campaigns as nearly prohibitive front-runners with the support of the party’s establishment. But then unexpected challengers rose up to threaten them – Barack Obama in Clinton’s [...]

By April MacIntyre Dec 13, 2011, 23:06 GMT World news followers listen up: PBS will air Jim Lehrer’s interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and and Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn (R) greet each other at the start of the NATO Foreign ministers council at NATO [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States and its European partners have applied additional sanctions against Iran and will continue applying pressure against that country’s leadership. Speaking at a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague after a meeting at the State Department in Washington, Clinton said that “the path [...]

Tweet ‘); WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) — With the last U.S. troops on their way out of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the countries are “sovereign equals.” U.S. forces are required under the terms of a bilateral status of forces agreement to leave the country by the end of the month, marking [...]

For Mitt Romney this December, it’s beginning to look a lot like Clinton. Like the great, fallen front-runner of 2008, here is another well-funded, Establishment-blessed, presumptive nominee whose supposedly firm hold on his party’s greatest prize seems to be slip-sliding away. Continue Reading There are differences to be sure, most centrally that Romney has yet [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have meant well in stating that Russia’s December 4 State Duma elections were “neither free nor fair” and that the Russian people “deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted.” Unfortunately, meaning well and doing good aren’t always the same. U.S. leaders should be careful [...]

Annette Dove told The Telegraph that working with the former first daughter was “outstanding”. “She was very professional, very prepared. You can tell that she is very smart,” the charity founder said. “I am very proud of her. I think she did an outstanding job. She made our organisation really shine.” Miss Clinton will be [...]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that what concerns the United States is not the position taken by Britain, but whether the decisions made by the eurozone countries will work to contain the deepening sovereign debt crisis. The top U.S. diplomat said that Europe’s debt crisis was [...]

Call it a fire sale, but with a purpose. The Friends of Hillary PAC, which was behind Hillary Rodham Clinton’s historic 2008 presidential campaign, offers donors a last chance to get a memento if they make a donation to help erase the remaining $274,000 debt from that race. At one point in the 2008 race, [...]

Hillary Clinton recently expressed concern about the future of Israeli democracy because the Knesset is considering curtailing foreign governments’ funding for Israeli NGOs, and because some rabbis in Israel say they want men and women to seat separately on buses. Does Hillary realize how hypocritical she is? In the United States, NGOs that receive money [...]

/ Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a post primary rally at Southern New Hampshire University January 8, 2007 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Parallels between Romney’s campaign right now and Hillary Clinton’s in Dec. 2007… Romney’s silver lining: More than half of Gingrich’s supporters pick Romney as their second choice… Where the [...]

According to President Obama, the U.S. plans on using foreign aid to “promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, and transgender persons.” This means that America will ramp up legal, financial, and moral support to gay groups or individuals around the globe who are facing threats. Obama also added that asylum in the [...]

Hillary Clinton’s three-day visit1 to Myanmar (November 30-December 2) marks a watershed in Myanmar-US relations. It signals acceptance by the international community that the process of transition in Myanmar has begun and potentially opens up new avenues for Myanmar in its domestic and foreign relations. This is the first visit by a US Secretary of [...]

By Will Stewart Last updated at 7:42 AM on 9th December 2011 Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin boasted yesterday: ‘We are the largest nuclear power.’ The comment came as Mr Putin blamed Hillary Clinton for encouraging a wave of protests over his country’s parliamentary elections. He took aim after the U.S. secretary of state said [...]

By Brigitte Dusseau (AFP) – 12 hours ago  NEW YORK — Chelsea Clinton, the only child of America’s most famous political couple, on Monday will abandon her once-cherished privacy, making a debut with a high-profile role on national television. At 31, Clinton has largely avoided the glare of public scrutiny that her parents, former president [...]

This flurry of activity – much of it philanthropic but, in the case of her new board position, well-remunerated – would not be unusual for the offspring of many high-profile parents. But for Miss Clinton, it marks a dramatic transition as she has finally accepted, if not quite yet embraced, the role of a public [...]

There is some that is commendable and much that is pernicious in Secretary Clinton’s speech Tuesday announcing that the United States will be making “LGBT rights” — that is, the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered persons — “a priority of our foreign policy” and a factor in determining the uses of “foreign assistance.” [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday vowed that the United States would help fight discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world. In what’s being hailed as a ‘landmark‘ speech, she marked Human Rights Day by announcing that the U.S. will use diplomacy and $3 million in foreign aid to help expand the rights [...]

During televised remarks, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday of encouraging protests in his country. “They heard this signal and with the support of the U.S. State Department began their active work,” Putin said, according to the AP. Continue Reading POLITICO 44 On Monday, Clinton had expressed “serious concerns” [...]

“Your excellency’s visit will be a new chapter in relations,” he said. Clinton’s trip comes after changes in Burma that have astonished many observers. Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed after more than 20 years of house arrest and prison, and tentative moves have been made to reduce censorship and create new laws permitting [...]

by Malcolm Curtis in Geneva, swissinfo.ch American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a speech in Geneva on Tuesday night to push for a global campaign to combat discrimination against gays and lesbians. The issue is “one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time”, Clinton said in a forceful address at the European headquarters [...]

The Obama administration’s announcement that it will combat efforts abroad to criminalize homosexual conduct is drawing criticism from U.S. conservatives, and praise from gay and human rights activists. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the new policy this week at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The United States has long advocated equal [...]

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What it might take for the U.S. Secretary of State to travel to Pyongyang U.S. secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton and former U.S. secretary of defense Robert M. Gates brief reporters at the Truce Village in Panmunjom, South Korea, on July 21, 2010 / State Department MORE FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:Egypt: Who [...]

By Andrew Quinn NAYPYITAW, Myanmar | Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:22pm GMT NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Myanmar in more than 50 years on Wednesday, launching an historic mission to press the reclusive country’s new leaders to sever illicit contacts with North Korea and deliver [...]

Mrs Clinton, who is in Brussels, later said that the US backed Russian rights and hopes for a better future. “We expressed concerns that we thought were well-founded about the conduct of the elections,” Mrs Clinton told a press conference after talks between NATO allies and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister “We are supportive [...]

This week, President Obama announced that the US will begin taking into account the experiences and treatment of gays and lesbians in foreign countries when making decisions regarding aid for those nations. It’s a move not unlike David Cameron’s in October, when he said threatened countries that criminalize homosexuality with losing foreign aid. Secretary of [...]

As Congress sinks its teeth into an alternative to the widely loathed anti-piracy legislation that some fear will lead to Internet censorship, Hillary Clinton  is standing up for the ideals of an open web . In a speech at The Hague, Clinton sounded less like the Secretary of State than some sort of digital freedom superhero. [...]

Hillary Clinton knows it’s been a good tour when the US secretary of state’s critics deride her as a “radical scold” trying to turn the world into gay-friendly San Francisco. Or claims that she is wrong to meet Burma‘s “military thugs” as the US presses for continued political reform in that long closed country. Then [...]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration shocked reproductive rights groups this week when it struck down a recommendation by government scientists to make Plan B emergency contraception available to women of all ages without a prescription. Although President Obama said the decision was made solely by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he presented a [...]

Here are a just a few reasons the Democratic Party should bite the bullet and jettison the nation’s one-term Senate orator and try to elect the nation’s first woman president. Beginning with the political dimension of his conduct of the war in Afghanistan to class war at home, Obama’s priorities seem to be governed more [...]

State Sen. Ray Lesniak ELIZABETH — State Sen. Raymond Lesniak is calling for Hillary Clinton to be President Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate instead of Joe Biden, who is 69, and he will be making a television appearance this weekend to explain why. The 64-year old former First Lady, who is now the Secretary of [...]

As Congress sinks its teeth into an alternative to the widely loathed anti-piracy legislation that some fear will lead to Internet censorship, Hillary Clinton is standing up for the ideals of an open web. In a speech at The Hague, Clinton sounded less like the Secretary of State than some sort of digital freedom superhero. And [...]

Hypocrisy from the U.S. Government — having U.S. officials self-righteously impose standards on other countries which they routinely violate — is so common and continuous that the vast majority of examples do not even merit notice. But sometimes, it is so egregious and shameless — and sufficiently consequential — that it should not go unobserved. [...]

Tweet ‘); MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed Hillary Clinton for protests against him as a rally loomed that could be the largest since the Soviet Union’s fall. Putin said the U.S. secretary of state questioned the fairness of Sunday’s election with minimal and skewed information, setting off days of [...]

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday warned Internet firms to avoid offering the “tools of oppression” to authoritarian Middle East regimes trying to crush democracy protests. Clinton urged private companies to “embrace (their) role in protecting Internet freedom” and ensure protection of ordinary people as well as political activists. Speaking [...]

Sometimes you just have to give credit where credit is due. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could have given some boilerplate remarks about the importance of human rights on International Human Rights Day in Geneva. She could have taken the opportunity to take some swipes at Iran or the Taliban. But instead she gave a [...]

THE HAGUE: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday warned internet firms to avoid offering the “tools of oppression” to authoritarian Middle East regimes trying to crush democracy protests. Clinton urged private companies to “embrace their role in protecting internet freedom” and ensure protection of ordinary people as well as political activists. Speaking at [...]

Tweet ‘); MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed Hillary Clinton for protests against him as a rally loomed that could be the largest since the Soviet Union’s fall. Putin said the U.S. secretary of state questioned the fairness of Sunday’s election with minimal and skewed information, setting off days of [...]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning Internet and software companies to beware what they sell to autocratic governments. Clinton says authoritarian governments are trying to use the same tools of online connection to spy on or restrict citizens. She says those governments sometimes get help from companies that [...]

The Hague, Netherlands:  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday warned Internet firms to avoid offering the “tools of oppression” to authoritarian Middle East regimes trying to crush democracy protests. Clinton urged private companies to “embrace their role in protecting Internet freedom” and ensure protection of ordinary people as well as political activists. Speaking [...]

A new fundraising letter from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign has “revived speculation” that she is still interested in winning the White House, according to Paul Bedard of U.S. News World Report. “While her campaign has in the past dispatched fundraising emails in a bid to finish paying her 2008 campaign debt, [...]

The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) — Challenging the private sector to protect Internet freedom, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged companies to ensure their Internet technologies are not used as tools of repression. “Whether you like it or not, the choices that private companies make have an impact on how information flows — or doesn’t [...]

THIERRY CHARLIER/AFP/Getty ImagesU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pictured in this Dec. 8 file photo. Clinton said this week that the Obama administration would be placing supporting gay rights on its foreign policy agenda. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got it right: Gay rights are human rights. It’s as simple as that. And the [...]

Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has accused the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, of inciting protests. Link to this video Vladimir Putin has accused Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, of fomenting an increasingly vociferous opposition movement in Russia, threatening to derail the two countries’ fragile resetting of relations. The accusation builds on [...]

If Americans in their infinite wisdom choose to keep a Democrat in the White House through 2016, let it be Hillary Rodham Clinton. Increasingly the question of whether President Barack Obama should be challenged for the 2012 nomination is surfacing among disgruntled Democrats worried about a solid Republican victory next fall. They’re right to be [...]

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin strongly criticized U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday, accusing her of encouraging and funding Russians protesting election fraud, and warned of a wider Russian crackdown on dissent. By describing Russia’s parliamentary election as rigged, Putin said Clinton “gave a signal” to his opponents. “They heard this [...]

VILNIUS | Wed Dec 7, 2011 9:18am EST VILNIUS (Reuters) – Russia took a swipe at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over her criticism of its parliamentary election, saying it was “not Hyde Park” where speakers could just arrive, hold forth and leave without listening to others. Clinton, visiting Lithuania on Tuesday for [...]

  On Wednesday Nov. 30, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ’69 began her three-day tour of the Southeast Asian country Myanmar (also known as Burma), which has been under military rule since 1962. Clinton is the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Myanmar in over fifty years. During her stay, she has met seperately [...]

December 07, 2011, 12:19 PM EST By Nicole Gaouette Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the international community to focus on preventing terrorists from acquiring biological weapons, warning that a “mass outbreak” could threaten fragile economies the world over. Speaking before the Review Conference of Biological and Toxin Weapons in [...]

In a seminal speech to mark Human Rights Day which commemorates the 1948 signing of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenged leaders of the world to “be on the right side of history” and to recognise that “gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights”. [...]

Some on Capitol Hill have criticized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Myanmar, formerly Burma. Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, said she worried that the move sent the wrong signal to the “military thugs” in Myanmar’s leadership. But Clinton was careful to say that any aid or diplomatic recognition would depend on Myanmar’s [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with Syrian opposition leaders four months after she urged rebels to create a “unified vision” for reform. The meeting — set for Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland — is Clinton’s second get-together with the resistance movement since the uprising seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad began March [...]

(CBS/AP)  GENEVA – New gene assembly technology that offers great benefits for scientific research could also be used by terrorists to create biological weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday. The threat from bioweapons has drawn little attention in recent years, as governments focused more on the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation [...]

The Obama administration has offered in two high level addresses the crystallization of all that is wrong in its course. Yesterday, President Barack Obama went to Osawatomie , Kansas . He chose that location because of his own Kansas roots and because former President Theodore Roosevelt gave a famous speech there in 1910. Mr. Obama [...]

“Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” Hillary Clinton is Not Helping the Gay Civil Rights Movement Hillary Clinton’s address on “gay rights as human rights” in Geneva on December 6, 2011 is going viral. Clinton’s appeal to the international community responds to the rising atrocities and violence committed against gay people around the globe. The [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a rare meeting on Tuesday with Syrian opposition figures as the Obama administration returned its top envoy to Damascus after he was recalled six weeks ago because of security concerns and worsening violence. In Geneva, Clinton told a group of seven Syrian pro-reform activists that she wanted [...]

VILNIUS — Russia took a swipe at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over her criticism of its parliamentary election, saying it was “not Hyde Park” where speakers could just arrive, hold forth and leave without listening to others. Updated 27 minutes ago 12/7/2011 2:07:26 PM +00:00 Afghan woman: I’ll marry man who raped me [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday vowed that the United States would help fight discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world. In what’s being hailed as a ‘landmark‘ speech, she marked Human Rights Day by announcing that the U.S. will use diplomacy and $3 million in foreign aid to help expand the rights [...]

December 07, 2011, 2:55 AM EST By Nicole Gaouette Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met for almost two hours with Syrians seeking to end the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, a sign of U.S. determination to see Assad’s regime end. Clinton met yesterday with members of the Syrian National Council, a [...]

Vilnius, Lithuania — Issuing new warnings to two U.S. partners Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Russia for a parliamentary election she called rigged and said election gains by Islamist parties must not set back Egypt’s push toward democracy after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak this year. She acknowledged the success of [...]

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on world leaders for the first time Tuesday to stop discrimination against gays and lesbians, announcing that the United States would use diplomacy and $3 million in aid to help expand the rights of gay people around the world. In a speech to mark Human Rights Day, [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential committee is still open, technically active — and trying to pay off its debts. In an email to supporters, Hillary Clinton for President official Allison Wright announces a fundraising fire sale of campaign memorabilia like posters, buttons, t-shirts and a DVD “with Hillary’s historic speech at the 2008 Denver [...]

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Issuing new warnings to two U.S. partners Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Russia for a parliamentary election she called rigged and said election gains by Islamist parties must not set back Egypt’s push toward democracy after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak this year. She acknowledged the success [...]

Hillary Clinton’s soaring speech on international LGBT issues was game changing. A historic address of this magnitude was desperately needed to counter the rising tide of backwards and barbaric nations that had recently been persecuting LGBT people to distract from their glaring problems. “I want to talk about the work we have left to do [...]

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Monday, Dec. 5: Some on Capitol Hill have criticized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Myanmar, formerly Burma. Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, said she worried that the move sent the wrong signal to the “military thugs” in Myanmar’s leadership. But Clinton was [...]

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defends the rights of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender persons from around the world in a speech entitled “Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights”, at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, International Human Rights Day. (Credit: AP) President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary [...]

You’ve got to hand it to Nigerian email fraudsters — they are nothing if not persistent. In their latest campaign to fool extraordinarily gullible people into believing that they are due an inheritance, and that a bank in the West African nation is ready to hand over enormous sums of money, no questions asked, Nigerian [...]

Clinton has said she will insist that Burma free all political prisoners – activists’ estimates vary between 500 and more than 1,600 – and move to end long-running ethnic conflicts that have displaced thousands of people. Senior administration officials said Clinton would not announce an end to sweeping economic sanctions on Burma, a step that [...]

Editor’s note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and is a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com and the 2009 winner of the Gay [...]

Mrs Clinton attended an international conference on Afghanistan in Bonn yesterday and will take part in an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe gathering in Vilnius before flying to Geneva. She will then attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels and give a speech on Internet freedom in The Hague before flying back [...]

Three minutes of QA at the end of a closed lecture delivered by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday at the Saban Forum in Washington exposed deepening gaps between the governments of Israel and Washington. If up to now differences between Washington and Jerusalem centered on the peace process or the future of [...]

In Washington last night, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts held its annual ceremony to honor visionaries in the performing arts for their lifetime achievements. This year’s Kennedy Center Honors were bestowed on singer Barbara Cook; singer and songwriter Neil Diamond; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins; and actress Meryl Streep. Hosted by Caroline Kennedy, the star-studded evening was a warm celebration [...]

You’ve got to hand it to Nigerian email fraudsters — they are nothing if not persistent. In their latest campaign to fool extraordinarily gullible people that they are due an inheritance, and that a bank in the West African nation is ready to hand over enormous sums of money, no questions asked, Nigerian scammers have [...]

Since she came into office, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been on the lookout for big ideas to help the State Department do a better job of addressing the nation’s international priorities. Skip to next paragraph In Pictures: Travels with Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton compares parts of Israel to Jim Crow south Historic [...]

Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton targeted rising religious extremism in Israel, something that could one day open a rift between the US and the Jewish state. By Dan Murphy, Staff writer / December 5, 2011 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference following her meetings with Myanmar officials, including President Thein Sein, [...]

Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton targeted rising religious extremism in Israel, something that could one day open a rift between the US and the Jewish state. By Dan Murphy, Staff writer / December 5, 2011 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference following her meetings with Myanmar officials, including President Thein Sein, [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is relying heavily on think tank scholars for a new permanent advisory. The Foreign Affairs Policy Board will advise Clinton on pressing issues confronting the State Department, according to a report from Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin. The group is set to convene for the first time during Christmas week and [...]

While winning almost half the share of the vote would be considered a triumph in many other countries, for United Russia and for the strongman Russian prime minister it is deeply embarrassing. It was the first chance Russians were given to pronounce on his decision to return to the presidency next year for a third [...]

The US secretary of state meets Burma’s new leaders on a historic visit Link to this video The US secretary of state has had her first substantive talks with Burma‘s new leaders, in a meeting Washington hopes will embolden reformers in the country where entrenched military interests loom large. Hillary Clinton, whose landmark visit on [...]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday to express condolences once again over the Pakistani soldiers killed in NATO attacks and reiterated “America’s respect for Pakistan’s sovereignty.” “She once again expressed condolences to the families of the soldiers and to the Pakistani people [...]

By BRETT ZONGKER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama in lauding the actors, musicians and others receiving Kennedy Center Honors Sunday night, also was looking for advice. “Everybody likes him,” Obama said of Yo-Yo Ma, one of the several artists honored. “You’ve got to give me some tips.” Obama noted that the cellist [...]

Most here believe the reforms are genuine, and a sign that sanctions have worked. Once among Asia’s richest countries, Burma has seen its economy all but collapse, leaving its 62 million people among Asia’s poorest, earning on average $2.20 a day. Most banks are not allowed to handle transactions involving Burma—effectively blocking remittances from overseas—and [...]

Bonn, Dec 5 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Bonn on Sunday for international talks aimed at charting a course for Afghanistan after NATO combat troops withdraw in 2014, even as her aides played down a boycott by Pakistan.   “I don’t think it (the boycott) will impact the conclusions of the [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived here for international talks today aimed at charting a course for Afghanistan after NATO combat troops withdraw, as her aides played down a boycott by Pakistan. Clinton will meet with President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan officials at a conference in Bonn that is also aimed at ensuring [...]

Some on Capitol Hill have criticized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Myanmar, formerly Burma. Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, said she worried that the move sent the wrong signal to the “military thugs” in Myanmar’s leadership. But Clinton was careful to say that any aid or diplomatic recognition would depend on Myanmar’s [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined in celebrating the top artists receiving the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday while home for less than 36 hours between diplomatic travels. Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma Among 2011 Kennedy Center Honorees‘SNL’ Stars Salute Kennedy Center Honoree Will FerrellVIDEO: Steven Tyler at Kennedy Center [...]