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America's classified X-37B spaceplane is probably spying on China, according to a report in Spaceflight magazine. The unpiloted vehicle was launched into orbit by the US Air Force in March last year and has yet to return to Earth. The Pentagon has steadfastly refused to discuss its mission but amateur space trackers have noted how its path around the globe is nearly identical to China's spacelab, Tiangong-1. There is wide speculation that the X-37B is eavesdropping on the laboratory. "Space-to-space surveillance is a whole new ball game made possible by a finessed group of sensors and sensor suites, which we...

Egypt's foreign minister has criticised foreign "interference" following impassioned comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denouncing the stripping and beating of a female protester. "Egypt will not accept any interference in its domestic affairs," Mohammed Amr told reporters. He said Cairo was seeking "clarifications over any statements by any foreign official regarding internal Egyptian matters." (Snip) On Tuesday, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which took power when Mubarak was ousted, apologised to "the great women of Egypt over transgressions that occurred during recent incidents in the protests outside parliament and cabinet."

What a great place to initiate some recon...  the Ruskies' most vital and abundant resource: And this one's a potential threat to US security interests all by her sexy little self, boys- Miss Russia 2011  Natalia Gantimurova is studying advanced English in Moscow and already earned a college degree in 'International Relations'- wonder what she's planning to do with all that. Good thing then we've got such an emotionally-detached metrosexual/eunuch of a president these days, if Bubba was still in office he'd fork over anything this one asked for in five minutes (best keep Hillary and her 'reset button' away too,...

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, according to administration officials. With a special joint Congressional committee starting work to reach a bipartisan budget deal by late November, the proposal adds a new and populist feature to Mr. Obama’s effort to raise the political pressure on Republicans to agree to higher revenues from the wealthy in return for Democrats’ support of future cuts from Medicare and Medicaid. Mr....

3M claims an investment company conspired with high-powered lobbyist Lanny Davis in a smear campaign to "coerce" it into paying "tens of millions of dollars ... to save them from the consequences of yet another unprofitable investment," a screening test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 3M sued defendants London-based Harvey Boulter, CEO of defendant Porton Capital and a director Porton Capital Technology Funds, both of the Cayman Islands; and Lanny Davis, a principal of co-defendants Davis & Associates, and Davis-Block, all of Washington. Davis, who worked as a special counsel for President Clinton from 1996 to 1998, has lobbied for a...

Apologies for the vanity post, but this question is really piquing me. I remember reading something kind of wacky that claimed that sometime in 2007, Bill and Hilary Clinton were called before a panel of the top international financeers, mainstream press lords and other political bankrollers and told in no uncertain terms that they would not be going back into the White House in 2009. Does anyone have any leads to how this story began? The naïve may well dismiss that anecdote as nothing more than a paranoid John Birch-type speculation, but while one should always be skeptical of conspiracy...

A major scandal amoung influential Democrats just broke, and so far it appears to be flying under the radar. Stephen Losey at Federal Times has the scoop. bilde.jpg In a nutshell: Alan Kessler, the former finance vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's finance chair during her 2008 campaign, resigned suddenly from his position on the USPS' Board of Governors last month. Turns out, he was pressuring postal officials to back off of a land deal that would have cost his friend, Douglas Band -- who is Bill Clinton's lawyer, helps run the Clinton Foundation and helped...

A prophetic insight. Video at link...

Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty...

US Politicians Duped By The Brotherhood In the United States, one individual maintained a pretense of "moderation" which would later embarrass the left and the right. According to the testimony of Dr. Michael Waller to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Abdurahman Alamoudi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. A man born in Eritrea in 1951, he arrived in the US in 1979 and became a naturalized US citizen on May 23, 1996. From 1985 onwards he became involved in many Muslim groups. In 1990 he founded the Washington DC-based American Muslim Council (AMC), which Waller states "has...

SNIP The information Clinton directed the diplomats to ascertain ranged from basic biographical data such as diplomats' names and addresses to their frequent flier and credit card numbers, to even "biometric information on ranking North Korean diplomats." Typical biometric information includes fingerprints, signatures and iris recognition. The cable, simply signed 'CLINTON', is classified S/NF - or 'Secret/No Foreign' - and was sent to 33 US embassies and the UN mission offices in New York, Vienna and Rome. It asked officers overseas to gather information about "office and organisational titles; names, position titles and other information on business cards; numbers of...

bizarre photo of Hillary laughing

Senator Harry Reid claims to be an ethical politician and he often employs his Mormon religion in order to demonstrate his alleged immaculacy. However, the reality is that he is, in fact, one of the most ethically challenged politicians in office today. This report will review his alliances with corrupt individuals, his support of ACORN, his ties with organized crime figures and his chronic failure to comply with campaign finance laws. Harry Reid’s Alliance with Jack Abramoff Soon after the Jack Abramoff scandal broke, Reid took the lead in attacking Republicans for fostering a “culture of corruption.” (1) But shortly...

Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros. In a statement obtained by The Caucus, the organization says it plans to use the money to intensify its efforts to hold the Fox host Glenn Beck and others on the cable news channel accountable for their reporting. “Fox has transformed itself into a 24-7 G.O.P. attack machine, dividing Americans through fear-mongering and falsehoods and undermining the legitimacy of our government for partisan...

The Clintons' Westchester waffling continues. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to move from Chappaqua to more stately Clover Hill Farm, but Bill doesn't appear to be in a rush. The last time the couple visited Clover Hill was a month ago -- their ninth time. The Clintons have seen every home on the market in their price range over a two- year period, and sources said that local real-estate brokers are weary of it. "If it wasn't them, no one would show them anything anymore. They are perennial lookers," said one broker.

Live, on Oprah! It’s America’s Sweethearts, Bill ‘n Hill, Together Again! Posted by Steve Grammatico Oct 7th 2010 Chicago (AP) – Appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton spoke publicly for the first time about the 2008 primary campaign, her political ambitions, and their personal relationship. Representatives for the First Couple insisted the joint appearance had absolutely nothing to do with President Obama’s sagging political fortunes and was just a “total coincidence.” The show began with Bill and Hillary air-kissing and catching up since they were last together at daughter...

The denials follow comments made by journalist Bob Woodward during a CNN interview Tuesday night in which Woodward suggested that the White House is seriously discussing dumping Vice President Joe Biden in favor of the Secretary of State. "It's on the table," Woodward said yesterday on John King, USA. "Some of Hillary Clinton's advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012."

The abject failure of the Obama administration is painfully obvious. Herman Cain described the situation: Millions of voters have come to realize that this presidency lacks leadership, direction, decisiveness, economic urgency and, most of all, solutions. This combination of deficiencies has produced a more than uninspired citizenry, except for the most loyal and misled supporters of the president. While many recognize the failure, few are aware of the potential dangers ahead

... He must, rather, master “the art of communication,” which means he “communicates within the experience of his audience,” affecting “full respect to the other’s values.” He doesn’t, for example, burn the American flag—he holds that “it is the establishment that has betrayed the flag while the flag itself remains the glorious symbol of America’s hopes and aspirations.” This isn’t because he actually cares about America’s hopes and aspirations. Those he seeks to lead care about them, however inchoately, and the successful organizer must connect with his audience’s self-interest. If he plays this game of misdirection well enough, the organizer...

Yuck yuck, duh neither of us inhaled. We just look like we did. Alot. Captions wanted.

What’s with this entitlement mentality concerning family dynasties in American politics? We had the Bush’s, then the Clinton’s, then the Bush’s, then almost again the Clinton’s and now with the Presidential campaigns and elections around the corner we are hearing rumors of a possible run by Jeb Bush and once again, Hillary Clinton. It’s as if these people feel that they were bred for one intent and purpose, to rule this country. And, of course, who could forget the Kennedy’s? Now we are hearing chants from a few on the left for Ted Kennedy’s wife, Victoria Kennedy, to run for...

He comes from a crooked family. His father stole at least $10 Million from investors and still owes at least $9.4 Million. I guess birds of a feather......

Concerning Right to Life - As America kills its offspring in the womb, we hear about it being a "social issue". It is not a "social issue". It is the violation of an important founding principle. Now, if someone were to do a study of whether it was Bill or Hillary Clinton who had the most venereal disease (if any), THAT would be a "social issue"! Come on, Democrats, media, and others, - let's get it right!

As imagined by Ron Wadden, on the eve of the nuptials of Ms. Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, N.Y. MONDAY It happened again today, while Marc and I were at Party Palace to pick up the folding chairs. A Rhinebeck yokel shouts: "HEY CHELSEA, MEZVINSKY RHYMES WITH LEWINSKY." It doesn't even make sense, but that hasn't stopped people from belting it out like it's the funniest thing since the Palin campaign. (Mom's even cracked it a couple of times herself, but only when Dad's nearby.) Marc doesn't seem bothered. He knows I'm not so shallow as to choose my...

Wedding bell buzz is kicking into high gear in Rhinebeck, and as the town prepares for Chelsea Clinton's big day more details are emerging about the groom. Clinton's fiancé, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, is about to become the man of the hour. The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to marry Mezvinsky on a private estate on the river on Saturday. The two met as teenagers at a leadership retreat in 1993, both went to Stanford and, like Chelsea, Mezvinky has dealt with adversity -- his father, a former congressman, served...

As the Clinton family closes in on a 20-acre residence near New York, the locals are less than happy, writes Melissa Whitworth. The news that Bill and Hillary Clinton are moving to Bedford Hills in upstate New York has not exactly been received enthusiastically by the town's Wasp-y residents. Bedford is just an hour north of Manhattan: all rolling green hills, stone walls and 18th-century farmhouses, with the odd McMansion thrown in. It's already home to celebrities including Glenn Close, George Soros, Ralph Lauren, Richard Gere (who owns a popular restaurant and Buddhist yoga studio there) and Martha Stewart –...

Chelsea Clinton’s wedding—now dubbed “the wedding of the century”—is such an exclusive event that HUMAN EVENTS had not been able to find anyone who is actually attending the July 31 wedding. So many of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s friends and supporters are not invited to the wedding that feelings are getting hurt and egos bruised.

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Guest List Revealed Posted by Devon Thomas NEW YORK (CBS) It's wedding season and Hillary and Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea has her guest list all sorted out. The First Daughter, 30, who is getting married on July 31 to Marc Mezvinsky, is throwing a wedding bash that will reportedly have up to 500 guests, including some of the biggest names in politics and entertainment. Just who made the cut? According to the Hudson Valley News, guests include President Obama, singer Barbra Streisand, filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw, and media moguls Oprah Winfrey and Ted...

'Glenn Beck': ShoreBank's Tangled Web Friday , May 21, 2010 GLENN BECK, HOST: I want to talk to you a little bit about ShoreBank. And all you need to know about ShoreBank in Chicago is it's a really good local bank — that's it — a really good local bank. I want to start over here. Do you remember Crime Inc.? This is a story that we've been telling you here for a while. And I just want to run this down. Joyce Foundation, when Barack Obama was on the board of the Joyce Foundation — this is a really...

Glenn Beck TV thread May 24th 2010 Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Stand. Never give up. Never give in. We are another day closer to the 2010 elections. All Beckerheads, infidels, sick twisted freaks, ilks and lurkers are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the thread.

www.LibertyJuice.com Auntie Zeituni could well be the most talked about illegal alien in America right now. And while I abhor the fact that she’s been allowed to stay, despite the fact she’s been here illegally for so many years and living in government housing via the taxpayer’s dollar, it has allowed me to learn several very valuable lessons. Lesson number one, laws concerning illegal immigration don’t apply to family members of politicians. Auntie Zeituni, President Obama’s 56 year old aunt, has been quite a topic lately. After overstaying her visa and blatantly ignoring a federal judge’s deportation orders in 2003,...

On 60 Minutes earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented that the American economy is making it more difficult for her to do her job because other nations are telling her that “we always look to you because you have this great economy, and now you’re in the ditch.” Bill O’Reilly saw “a little jab” at the President in those comments, blaming the White House for her job troubles, but guest Dick Morris took that premise a bit further, suggesting the remarks, coupled with her silence on health care reform, were a deliberate attempt to undermine the President...

Obama, Brown, and the ‘Third Way’The Left loses its way by abandoning the “third way.”  Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America, Democrats are doing worse in the polls today than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain, the Labour party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday. All of which raises the question: What happened to the “third way� center-left movement that once seemed to sweep all before it? Only a dozen years ago, in 1998, President Clinton enjoyed...

As Barack Obama’s approval numbers trend ever lower – and a new Gallup poll reports that 50% of Americans believe the President doesn’t even deserve a second term – it’s going to be very interesting to watch Hillary Clinton. Well, not the Secretary of State herself, of course. She’s busy at Foggy Bottom, burnishing her foreign policy credentials. Instead, watch her husband. Notwithstanding news accounts about the détente between the Clintons and Obama, surely the former president and his wife can’t help but feel that their predictions about the political disaster that would result from Obama’s inexperience and naivete, reportedly...

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, "mainstream" media confused the public over whether Obama ever released any real proof of his claim to being born in Hawaii. The confusion continues. Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on February 20, 2009 that "The Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." But Alter lied, since "the Obama campaign" never "actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." Remarkably, no hospital in Hawaii yet lays definitive claim to be the birthplace of the sitting President. .. On the FactCheck.org website, the claim...

Phil Boehmke The Statists are in full crisis mode these days. Patriotic Americans all across the fruited plane are coming together in ways never imagined by the enemies of freedom. The tea party movement is the expression of our abiding faith in America and the guiding principles of our Founding Fathers as expressed in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. The Statists and their comrades in the Main Stream Media have unleashed a propaganda campaign against the tea party movement and it's participants. We have been called racists, nazis and often worse. Last week after the Tea Party Convention...

Indicted death squad leader holds campaign meeting in Haiti Port au Prince, Haiti - HIP — Haitian activists in Port au Prince are accusing the Obama administration of turning a blind-eye to the political activities of alleged criminal bosses in Haiti while backing a ruling to exclude the widely popular Fanmi Lavalas party. The party of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, known as Fanmi Lavalas, was barred by current Haitian president Rene Preval's handpicked election council from participating in parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 2010. The accusations made against the Obama administration by community leaders in Haiti stems from a recent...

Huffington Post reporter Mayhill Fowler reveals today that she intentionally ignored reporting former President Bill Clinton's adulterous relationship with an unnamed mistress during his wife Hillary's campaign for the 2008 Democratic party presidential nomonation.Fowler writes she knew the state of the Clintons' marriage had national security implications as she notes that Democratic voters were falsely comforted thinking the former two-term president would be by Hillary's side in bed at the White House when the "3 a.m." phone call came. But that was not enough for her to report the truth so the voters could decide for themselves. Huffington Post, the...

In the new book Game Change, Obama, Reid, the Clintons, the Edwards and Biden come off looking very bad indeed. Written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, it chronicles juicy and scandalous, behind-the-scenes, alleged happenings in the 2008 presidential election. Even before its release yesterday, Game Change claimed its first political casualty in racism-challenged Harry Reid who belittled the black community as well as accused Americans of being racist in general. Though it also covers Palin and McCain, one would be hard-pressed to argue that it's the Republicans who come off looking the worst from these insider accounts that are...

<p>Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.</p> <p>In "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr," due out in February, author Ken Gormley also says that Lewinsky believed Bill Clinton lied about their affair during grand jury testimony about his relationship with the White House intern.</p>

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THOSE rumors of an imminent Chelsea Clinton wedding have picked up steam. A Post reporter yesterday spotted preparations in full gear for a very large gathering on Chappaquiddick island.

...Many people say if Obama has problems with his constitutional qualifications the Clintons would have made it know. Would they now? The reason why the Clintons did not push the constitutionally disqualifying evidence of Barack Hussein Obama II is simply because they were being set up to be racists. This happened early on and continues to this day. Anyone who disagrees with the One is a racist, and an infidel. Perhaps Hillary is reminding us what her husband Bill said, when it became apparent that the undemocratic Democratic party aligned the elites behind Obama against the majority of popular votes...

The Clintons are walking hand in hand in Bermuda this week. The Obamas will be vacationing in Martha's Vineyard starting this weekend. Sounds like a lot of R&R for Democratic leaders on the East Coast. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has other ideas. Hurricane Bill could cause plenty of havoc for Washington's power couples starting Saturday. Near-hurricane force winds are expected to ruin the Clintons' romantic walks on the pink sand beaches of an island where Chelsea was conceived 30 years ago. While the brunt of the storm is expected to pass 100 miles west of the Clintons' location, they still could...

Today President Obama has separate meetings at the White House with his former rivals, Bill and Hillary Clinton; and while the topics of discussion may be about diplomacy, one issue not likely to come up is that recent polls show the Clintons are surging in job approval polls, and the president’s are hitting new lows. The numbers represent a striking reversal of fortune for the Clintons, whose were supposed to have been eclipsed by Obama’s historic presidency. Instead, their stature has grown as Obama’s has shrunk Just 53 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, compared with 66...

John F. Kennedy was sworn into office. Roger Maris was hitting 61 home runs. The Berlin wall was erected. Much was happening in the first six months of 1961. But an extensive WND investigation into events leading up to the birth of Barack Obama, who would become America's first black president 47 years later, leaves many unanswered questions about the whereabouts and activities of the woman he claims as his mother. The timeline for Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, reveals an approximately six-and-a-half month interval in which there is no documentation for her whereabouts, from Jan. 31, 1961, when she concluded...

WASHINGTON -- Two Washington Post journalists are apologizing and their satirical online video series has been canceled following criticism of a joke they told about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli killed the "Mouthpiece Theater" series Wednesday after pulling the latest episode from the paper's Web site Friday. In the video, columnist Dana Milbank and White House correspondent and blogger Chris Cillizza appeared in smoking jackets to discuss the kinds of beer politicians might drink. Milbank said he couldn't reveal to whom President Barack Obama would serve a drink called "Mad B---- Beer." That line...

Instead of sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on quixotic missions to try to persuade the Chinese and Indians to forgo economic development in favor of sketchy climate-change regulations, President Obama should focus on the effect such tasks are having -- on her. The whole point of bringing Mrs. Clinton into his administration was to keep her quiet and happy... Yet, in just six short months, Mr. Obama has managed to isolate and pull the rug out from under her. How has she been dissed? Let us count the ways: Iran. In the early stages of last month's democratic...

LOS ANGELES -- Supporters say George Torres is a hardworking and generous immigrant entrepreneur who built a grocery-store chain serving some of the region's toughest neighborhoods. Government prosecutors allege Mr. Torres is a criminal who over the past 20 years has used murder, theft and intimidation to build his business empire. Those two views of the 52-year-old Mexican national who grew up in Los Angeles will clash during a federal-court trial scheduled to begin on Tuesday. Prosecutors accuse Mr. Torres of heading a racketeering scheme since the 1980s, using money and force to battle rivals and expand his business enterprises....