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When I heard that Bill Clinton was making as much as $500,000 per speech and made many more millions in his post-presidency, I thought to myself, God bless him. This is the American way. Former President Clinton’s speaker fees are probably in line with other former presidents who draw big fees, maybe bigger owing to his global popularity. But God bless them all. Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/clinton-foundation-cash-controversy/2015/04/27/id/640856/#ixzz3YWUqOdC0 Urgent: Rate Obama on His Job Performance. Vote Here Now!

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Can anyone sing a good neil Young falsetto and lay downthis track? Al-Ghaida is returning, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Benghazi. Gotta get down to it Jihadis are cutting us down Should have been done long ago. If you knew Stevens And found him dead on the ground How can you run when you know? Gotta get down to it Jihadis are cutting us down Should have been done long ago. What if you knew Stevens And found him dead on the ground How can you run when you know? Al-Ghaida...

If memory serves me correctly - there was a news clip in the early part of the Obama term where he addressed the lack of bipartisan support for health care. He said something to the effect "We won - you lost, get over it". I have been searching for the clip and cannot find anything. Was this my imagination - does anyone else recall this event? ... Please help an old man with his memory ... ;-)

Items from the Independent cannot be posted on FR ... you can reach the article here: Muslims hit out at Blair

NYT FRIDAY: Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the NSA has monitored international calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants... MORE...

What's More Difficult Than Landing a Man On The Moon? Why a democrat giving a concession speech! Please post your election humor. I intend to have fun in the office, and I wish to be well armed.

Does anyone have a current email address for Miami lawyer Jack Thompson ? The last thread I could find with his moniker listed jackpeace@aol.com, which is no longer a valid email address. Many thanks

CONSIDERING TWO DIFFERENT WORLD LEADERS THE PROPHET MOHAMMED Mohammed was born of humble origins around A. D. 570 in Mecca into the Koreish (Quraysh) tribe, custodians of the religious sanctuary in Mecca, the Kaaba.   Mohammed was married at age 25 to a wealthy widow, Khadija. From her he had one surviving daughter, Fatima, the mother of all those descended from him. Mohammed was often seen in solitude, for he was a thoughtful contemplative. In one of these contemplative times (at age 40 in A.D. 610) in a cave outside of Mecca, called Hera, Mohammed heard a voice he believed ...

Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden is responsible for today's terrorist attacks in the United States, according to a senior US official and former prime minister Ehud Barak. The ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan, where Bin Laden is believed to be based, condemned the attacks. It said Bin Laden could not be responsible for the attacks, saying they were beyond his capabilities. Early today in the US, four hijacked commercial airliners crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and near Pittsburgh. Estimates of casualties range as high as more than 10,000. Hamas denied any connection to the ...

I have seldom posted an article and NEVER produced a vanity post. But I simply must. I just heard Dan Rather ask Bob Scheifer and Gloria Borger cut to the chase, and they BOTH said that Bush gained the most. !!!!! Folks we HAVE arrived

I have seldom posted an article and NEVER produced a vanity post. But I simply must. I just heard Dan Rather ask Bob Scheifer and Gloria Borger cut to the chase, and they BOTH said that Bush gained the most. !!!!! Folks we HAVE arrived

Funds Probe Unfairly Spared White House, '98 Report Says 131 31 19441 9.2720 0 0 Funds Probe Unfairly Spared White House, '98 Report Says Donations: Revelations from long-sealed report show internal dissension on Reno's refusal to appoint counsel.  By WILLIAM C. REMPEL and ALAN C. MILLER, Times Staff Writers  WASHINGTON--A confidential report by the Justice Department's former chief campaign finance investigator, kept sealed by Atty. Gen. Janet Reno for nearly two years, accused senior Justice officials of engaging in "gamesmanship" and legal "contortions" to avoid an independent inquiry into Clinton-Gore campaign fund-raising abuses. According to an edited version of ...

Dec 13, 199912:02 PM Local Prosecutor Said She Was Under Pressure to Probe TrippBy Greg ToppoAssociated Press Writer ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) - In the first days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a local prosecutor said she was under political pressure to investigate Linda Tripp for illegal wiretapping, one of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's deputies testified today. Former Starr prosecutor Jackie Bennett was the first witness at a pretrial hearing where Maryland authorities must demonstrate that their case against Mrs. Tripp was untainted by her immunized statements to Starr's office. Bennett said he assured Mrs. Tripp and her attorney that ...

Sun Sep 19 1999 07:23:10 UTC US trained butchers of Timor The Guardian, London Exclusive: Washington trained death squads in secret while Britain has spent £1m helping Indonesian army Ed Vulliamy in New York and Antony Barnett Sunday September 19, 1999 Indonesian military forces linked to the carnage in East Timor were trained in the United States under a covert programme sponsored by the Clinton Administration which continued until last year. The Observer can also disclose that the Government has spent about £1 million in training more than 50 members of the Indonesian military in Britain since it came to ...

Sun Sep 19 1999 07:23:10 UTC US trained butchers of Timor The Guardian, London Exclusive: Washington trained death squads in secret while Britain has spent £1m helping Indonesian army Ed Vulliamy in New York and Antony Barnett Sunday September 19, 1999 Indonesian military forces linked to the carnage in East Timor were trained in the United States under a covert programme sponsored by the Clinton Administration which continued until last year. The Observer can also disclose that the Government has spent about £1 million in training more than 50 members of the Indonesian military in Britain since it came to ...

By PAUL DALEY FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT CANBERRA American military officials told Australian defence strategists in June that the US would consider deploying up to 15,000 troops to East Timor, if bloodshed dramatically escalated in the troubled Indonesian province. Specific details of American contingencies for East Timorwere revealed to The Age after the Foreign Minister, MrAlexander Downer, yesterday told Federal Parliament he was not aware of any US proposal for peace enforcement in East Timor. A top-level diplomatic source has made it clear to The Age that US military contingency plans for East Timor include a massive deployment of American troops, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's identification with Eleanor Roosevelt has taken on a new dimension in her choice of top campaign adviser. Harold M. Ickes enjoys an even closer communion with the Roosevelt years -- his father was FDR's hard-charging interior secretary and, in many ways, his enforcer. Like father, like son. The son, loyal, combative and at times perhaps a little over the edge, is devoting his energies to getting the first lady into the Senate. His father had tried to persuade Franklin Roosevelt's wife to take the same course but she declined. Rising from the caldron ...