http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/clintonlegacy/ en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:55:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409098/posts I'm not sure which is funnier about this Miami Herald story; that Adultery 101 was published in that newspaper or the fact that it was actually written by Herald staffers. It is so bizarre of a story that it should be marked down as a sign of desperation to attract readers in the midst of a calamitous circulation plunge. So let us now join the Miami Herald staffers as they present their readers with "helpful tips" on how to commit adultery with a celeb shoutout to Tiger Woods: So you're left scratching your head, wondering how a guy like Tiger... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409098/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380404/posts The Obama adminstration must react responsibly to China’s declaration that military operations in space are inevitable, a top China expert says. “How will the US react to Chinese diplomatic efforts in light of the PLA’s blunt statements on space warfare? This is something the Obama administration has to take into account,” said Dean Cheng, China specialist at Washington’s Heritage Foundation. “Are we going to see outrage, any meaningful reactions to the Chinese statements or again that it was someone speaking out of school and we just aren’t sure.” Cheng was referring to what appears to mark a major shift... DOD Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380404/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379649/posts The Obama adminstration must react responsibly to China’s declaration that military operations in space are inevitable, a top China expert says. “How will the US react to Chinese diplomatic efforts in light of the PLA’s blunt statements on space warfare? This is something the Obama administration has to take into account,” said Dean Cheng, China specialist at Washington’s Heritage Foundation. “Are we going to see outrage, any meaningful reactions to the Chinese statements or again that it was someone speaking out of school and we just aren’t sure.” DOD Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379649/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:33:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377666/posts Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) holds an Albanian traditional hat called Plis alongside Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu during his visit to Pristina, November 1, 2009. Clinton is in Kosovo where he unveiled his statue in Clinton's Boulevard. Former US president Bill Clinton addresses thousands of ethnic Albanians in Pristina, Kosovo, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377666/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:51:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351300/posts For the first time in a decade, Beijing on Thursday will showcase its latest armored vehicles, ballistic missiles and fighter jets in a demonstration of military ambition meant to befit the nation's economic rise. The display of hardware -- part of the nation's 60th anniversary celebrations -- will no doubt stoke national pride. But it's also a chance for China to show an international audience that the world's third-largest economy is investing heavily in defense technology, a strategic sector that Beijing believes will strengthen its regional security and global influence. Expected to be on display is a new generation of... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351300/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:56:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2351019/posts Just heard on FoxNews. Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu (shoo) is headed for a lengthy prison sentence after his conviction for violating campaign finance laws. Story still developing. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2351019/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:16:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345923/posts In a soon-to-be-released book based on taped interviews, Bill Clinton discusses his presidency, while dishing on Al Gore, Maureen Dowd, and GOPersOn Monday, USA Today ran a front-page article on the soon-to-be-released book chronicling a series of secret interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch held with President Bill Clinton throughout the Clinton presidency. The piece focused on a bizarre episode in which Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a visit to Washington in 1995 ended up in his underwear and drunk on Pennsylvania Avenue, trying to hail a cab. As for the Lewinsky affair, Clinton told Branch, he "just cracked" under... Mother Jones http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345923/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344973/posts Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a visit to Washington that he was found standing outside the White House in his underpants trying to hail a cab to go and buy a pizza. The following night he was mistaken for a drunken intruder when he was discovered stumbling around the basement of his guest house by secret service agents. The drunken behaviour of Yeltsin, who was known for his fondness for vodka and died two years ago aged 76, were revealed by former US president Bill Clinton. Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) taps his watch to end... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344973/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324227/posts Name That Party: Alleged Fraudster Was Finance Chair for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry By Ken Shepherd Created 2009-08-25 13:53 Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades HQ has a great "name that party" catch today [1]. Malor noted that at least three major news outlets all failed to note the high-powered Democratic Party ties of one Hassan Nemazee, a businessman arrested this morning on a charge of bank fraud against Citigroup: Do you know what's not in the CNN article [2]?* Or this Reuters one [3]? Or this AP one [4]? A crucial detail from Nemazee's bio: [5] National Finance Chair... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324227/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:36:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324225/posts NEW YORK CITY (BNO NEWS) -- Hassan Nemazee, CEO of Nemazee Capital and former Finance Chairman to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, was arrested and charged with bank fraud on Tuesday, prosecutors said. According to officials, Nemazee engaged in a fraudulent scheme to induce Citibank to lend him up to $74 million based on false representations that he owned millions of dollars in collateral. Nemazee submitted numerous documents that purported to establish the existence of accounts in his name at various financial institutions containing many hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, those were fraudulent and forged documents, according to the... BNO News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324225/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324210/posts NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. attorney in New York on Tuesday charged a New York investor and major Democratic fund-raiser with a $74 million scheme to defraud Citigroup Inc (C.N). Hassan Nemazee, 59, was charged with one count of bank fraud, and faces up to 30 years in prison plus a fine. His lawyer Marc Mukasey, a former federal prosecutor, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Nemazee was a national finance chair of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, and a supporter of John Kerry's run for the White House in 2004.... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324210/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:18:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323007/posts In a blunder that might top the Baby Shaker app on Apple's App Store, retailing giant Sears.com has been caught offering a Bar-B-Que grill specially designed to roast infants and other human morsels. The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323007/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:43:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312967/posts Here is video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today in the Congo letting her placid facade down for a moment and showing the Hillary we always knew was there. She thought she was being asked what her husband would think about an International Financial matter, but it turns out the translator was actually asking what President Obama thought. Pity the poor translator. Hillary flashed with anger and said, "You want to know what my husband thinks? My husband is not the Secretary of State." . . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312967/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309183/posts PRAGUE — Europe’s leading human rights group began an investigation on Monday into Serb allegations that Serbian civilians were abducted in Kosovo during the Kosovo war of 1998-99 and taken to Albania, where their organs were extracted for sale before they were killed. The inquiry, by the Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France, is being led by Dick Marty, a Swiss senator, who previously investigated the existence of alleged secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons in Europe used to interrogate terrorist suspects. The Council said Mr. Marty would meet this week with leading war crimes officials and human rights groups... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309183/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:10:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305282/posts When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer daily finance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305282/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:17:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303539/posts A 12-year-old girl was arrested on aggravated sexual assault charges Sunday, accused of coercing four younger children to perform sex acts on one another. Dallas police say she told the children – two girls 5 and 7, and two boys 4 and 5 – that she would shut them in a closet Saturday afternoon if they didn't do as she said. DallasNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303539/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:33:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869809/posts 14 yers ago today, on July 20, 1993, the body of Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was found in a Virginia park, next to a civil war cannon, with an unidentified revolver lodged in the right hand. Vincent Foster died of a small-caliber gunshot wound to his head. Vince Foster was not only deputy White House counsel but also the personal attorney to Bill and Hillary Clinton. On the night of Foster’s death, top Clinton aides made a frantic effort to enter and remove documents from his West Wing office. In the days that followed, federal investigators were stymied in their... 14 Years Later, Mystery Still Remains in the Death of Vince Foster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869809/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281678/posts On Wall Street and Main Street they call William Jefferson Clinton the "Comeback Kid," but it's not because of some Election Day surprise. It's because almost everything he did regarding financial-services regulation has come back to haunt us. If it wasn't apparent before, the former president's handiwork became clear when President Barack Obama announced his plans for sweeping financial-services reforms. Obama's efforts to bring fair dealing to the mortgage markets, rules to the derivatives marketplace and restraint to big financial companies underscore the missteps of Clinton's second term. We had weakly regulated markets when Clinton took office, but by the... MSN Money http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281678/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281676/posts A trio of regulatory changes and missteps on the former president's watch let the banks run wild and encouraged the housing bubble. But he had help, of course. On Wall Street and Main Street they call William Jefferson Clinton the "Comeback Kid," but it's not because of some Election Day surprise. It's because almost everything he did regarding financial-services regulation has come back to haunt us. If it wasn't apparent before, the former president's handiwork became clear when President Barack Obama announced his plans for sweeping financial-services reforms. Obama's efforts to bring fair dealing to the mortgage markets, rules to... MSN Money http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281676/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:02:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281332/posts "The author is ending her marriage. Isn’t it time you did the same?” So The Atlantic provocatively introduces its July/August feature “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.” It comes at a propitious moment. This seems to be the week for TMI — too much information. South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has told more, much more, than we needed to know about his mistress (how he met her, how their relationship ripened), his views on God’s laws, on the Appalachian Trail, and on forgiveness. Why must wayward American public figures stage these auto autos-da-fé — these self-immolations on TV? Dignity, which... nationalreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281332/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:36:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278045/posts BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's war crimes court convicted a Croatian Serb on Tuesday for his role in the 1991 torture and killing of 200 Croatian prisoners at a pig farm during the Balkan conflicts. Damir Sireta was sentenced after a six-month trial to serve 20 years in prison for war crimes. He was the 14th former paramilitary convicted for the killings near the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar during Croatia's 1991-95 war for independence from the former Serb-led Yugoslavia - one of the worst massacres of POWs during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Serb paramilitary units seized the victims... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278045/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277190/posts 9/11, Info Sharing, and “The Wall” The rise of “the wall” between intelligence and law enforcement personnel that impeded the sharing of information within the U.S. government prior to September 11, 2001 was critically examined in a detailed monograph (pdf) that was prepared in 2004 for the 9/11 Commission. It is the only one of four staff monographs that had not previously been released. It was finally declassified and disclosed earlier this month [http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/wall.pdf --searchable HTML transcript at http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:KyzY5fDka0AJ:www.fas.org/irp/eprint/wall.pdf+%22legal+barriers+to+information+sharing:+the+erection+of+a+wall+between+intelligence+and+law+enforcement+investigations%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]. In April 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft testified (pdf) that the failure to properly share threat information in the summer of... Federation of American Scientists http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277190/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275104/posts link only Google/ASS press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275104/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:37:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274803/posts Queens, New York... A little girl was burned over a 25 percent of her body and police said Thursday her mother and grandmother are responsible. What's even more disturbing is the fact that they said it happened during a ritual at the family's Queens Village home. The Queens district attorney said she was just 6 years old. And deliberately set on fire by her mother and grandmother. In what the top cop called a Haitian voodoo ritual. "She had accelerant poured on her and that a ring of fire was created. She was then placed inside the ring of fire... WCBS-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274803/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:45:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272853/posts Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history.. Never a politician in this land... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272853/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:26:09 GMT