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While United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was patently ignoring a President Robert Mugabe oppressed Zimbabwe, his son, Kojo was making money building the Zimbabwean capitol’s airport. Mugabe runs the ZANU-PF, a regime that Condoleeza Rice labels an outpost of tyranny. Why Kojo Annan’s business activities in Zimbabwe have not surfaced in the ongoing probe of the Oil-For-Food Program should surely raise concern about both the integrity and sincerity of the investigation. It’s a global village as far as Kojo’s business agenda is concerned. First came West Africa where Annan’s youngest son was working for the Swiss-based Cotecna with ties...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived at the Wiesbaden Army Airfield on Wednesday dressed all in black. She was wearing a black skirt that hit just above the knee, and it was topped with a black coat that fell to mid-calf. The coat, with its seven gold buttons running down the front and its band collar, called to mind a Marine's dress uniform or the "save humanity" ensemble worn by Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix." ... The boots had a high, slender heel that is not particularly practical. But it is a popular silhouette because it tends to elongate and...

But Condoleezza Rice is sailing like a jet-powered butterfly among our potential allies-for-peace, creating a better atmosphere. Within her purview, this is all, and more, than we could have expected......Dang that George W. Bush. Just when we were cooking up a good hate, he enters his second term and seems to be mellowing a bit. Regardless of what you think about every Bush administration policy, surely you believe new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is getting a great start. She’s everywhere, already having made a tour of Europe and the Middle East, seeming to make progress wherever she goes. You...

TODAY'S EVENTS: Vice President Dick Cheney met with South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon in private. The North's announcement and its decision to pull out of six-nation disarmament talks was "a matter of grave concern," South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Washington, where he arrived on a previously scheduled trip to meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (The Foreign Minister had been scheduled to meet with the Secretary and members of Congress during this visit.) The Vice President and Foreign Minister discussed the North Korean situation. News reports from Seoul indicate that South Korea initially reacted with...

Just a useless vanity, but what the heck, haven't done one yet: Was watching Condi speak this morning. She is so smart, just nails it, etc. Then it hit me like a rock as I watched and I literally said out loud: "Holy Sh*t, I'm looking at the next president of the United States." I just really felt strong about it. Thoughts?

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- In the course of three short months, the political system has come full circle: a presidential campaign, an inauguration, a State of the Union address and now this - another presidential race. A dozen or so ambitious Republicans and Democrats already are warming up for 2008.Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards is taking on poverty and showing off a new stump speech. Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has donated more than $250,000 to GOP causes, collecting political IOUs while planning visits to early voting states. Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana is hiring veteran...

Last Update: 06/02/2005 20:55 Rice urges Israel to avoid unilateral steps on J'lem By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent Haaretz Staff and AgenciesPrime Miniser Ariel Sharon and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ahead of their talks in Jerusalem on Sunday. (AP) Condoleezza Rice laying a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and President Moshe Katsav, and urged them to maintain the status quo over Jerusalem, and avoid taking any unilateral steps on the disputed capital which...

Rice: Democracy slipping in Russia By Steven R. Weisman The New York Times Ankara, Turkey - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Saturday that Russia has recently fallen backward on democracy and democratic reforms but said the government of President Vladimir Putin would not be punished or isolated by an American cutoff of cooperation in a variety of areas. Rice's comments, just before a dinner meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, were the latest indication that President Bush's vow to spread freedom in the world in his inaugural address did not signify a major change in the American approach...

January 28, 2005, 9:51 a.m. Islamo-Klansmen@Work From Bombingham to Baghdad. As Iraqis prepare to cast secret ballots in Sunday's free election, terrorists work day and night to obliterate the entire project. Their political violence recalls that of white supremacists who shielded Jim Crow in the battle for civil rights. Those who block the doorway to Iraqi self-determination are nothing more than Islamo-Klansmen. "Those of you who think you can vote and then run away...we will shadow you and catch you, and we will cut off your heads and the heads of your children," threatened one Muslim-extremist leaflet the New York...

A prominent president, one who commands enormous resources and can influence the lives of many women, has recently made disgusting sexist comments. No, not Lawrence Summers of Harvard, who merely had the temerity to suggest as a possible hypothesis, and in a non-public academic seminar, that women might not go into hard sciences in large numbers because, on average, their brains might not be quite wired for it, and because many women choose to focus their energies on raising children rather than on their careers. And for doing what academics are supposed to do – freely entertaining hypotheses and investigating...

As I write, the Senate has just overwhelmingly confirmed Dr. Condoleeza Rice as the first African American woman to become the Secretary of State. The confirmation hearings to consider her appointment, held just prior to the Presidential Inauguration, help to further reveal the real differences between the Left and the Right in this country and the delay in her confirmation on the floor of the Senate this week illustrates again the modus operandi of a few Democrats when it comes to their own failures. There is no doubt that some senators—including Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and failed Presidential candidate John Kerry...

(all times tenative since there is 1:22 of Democratic debate time left) 10:30 AM Eastern: Senate will Proceed from morning business to Executive Session resuming consideration of the nomination for Dr. Condoleeza Rice to be Secretary of State.11:30 AM Eastern: Proceed to roll call vote on Rice nominationThereafter, consideration will begin on the nominations of Jim Nicholson to be Secretary of Veternas Affairs and Mike Levitt for Secretary of Health and Human Service

I’m sick today. It’s not the flu, or a cold, and I did not catch anything from the unwashed protesters at the Inauguration. I did go to the Inauguration, and talked to several dirty, smelly people, who were against President Bush for one inane reason or another, but that is not what is ailing me, though it should likely be the subject of another column, or at least the cause for visting by doctor to make sure my shots are up to date. No, I am nauseous, at the treatment that Condoleezza Rice is getting by Senate Democrats. I am...

THE growing concentration of power in the Kremlin was a problem for Washington, which had repeatedly voiced concern over the state of Russian democracy, US Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice said today. Ms Rice echoed concerns voiced by outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell about the rule of law and the protection of democratic principles in Russia. "(The Russian government) is quite constructive in many areas ... but that doesn't excuse what is happening inside Russia, where the concentration of power in the Kremlin to the detriment of other institutions is a real problem," she told the Senate Foreign Relations...

To be sure, in our world there remain outposts of tyranny and America stands with oppressed people on every continent ... in Cuba, and Burma, and North Korea, and Iran, and Belarus, and Zimbabwe. The world should apply what Natan Sharansky calls the "town square test": if a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a "fear society" has finally won their...

DEMOCRATS = RACISTS: Here they go. White liberal elites trying to play power games with highly qualified minority candidates for Cabinet positions. The oft-drunken Ted Kennedy is leading the charge against Hispanics. From the file "I did this to Miguel Estrada" Kennedy has called for a halt in the confirmation process for Attorney General of Alberto Gonzales. Said something about needing more time to read the transcripts of the hearings. (Somebody should let him know that if he gets sober long enough to hold the papers he might be able to finish the transcripts.) And not to be out done the KKK's...

The Bush administration continues to support Senate ratification of the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea, which would turn the oceans and their incomprehensible riches over to the world body. During confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice reaffirmed the Bush administration’s plans to seek ratification of the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOST). During an exchange with Rice, Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), a noted Republican internationalist, quizzed the nominee about earlier statements she had made in support of ratifying LOST. "In your answers to questions for the...

This will be a tough week for liberals. Beginning Tuesday, they must find a way to curb their seething disdain for minority conservatives while grilling Condoleezza Rice before the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Thursday, they face the unbearable darkness that is the second inauguration of George W. Bush. Make no mistake about it though, they will pillory Dr. Rice. It’s just that they will conceal their racial animus behind charges of incompetence surrounding her support for the invasion of Iraq. And it won’t be pretty. The spate of ugly cartoons and rhetoric surrounding the Rice nomination reveals the...

On Tuesday, January 18th and Wednesday, January 19th, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a confirmation hearing for her appointment as Secretary of State. Dr. Rice's confirmation hearing must not be a rubber stamp of President Bush's appointment. The Senate must take its "advice and consent" role seriously. That's why, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I intend to stand up and ask Condoleeza Rice the tough questions that Americans deserve to have answered. Questions like: * Why did the United States go to war in Iraq based on misleading...

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury described a world in which firefighters burned books.  In the guise of heroes coming to the rescue, they committed the most dastardly deeds.  The people you would least expect were committing the crimes and therefore they were never opposed.  This fictional account helps us understand how the “Party of Diversity” – the Democratic Party – is engaging in the most egregious racism in recent memory – and is getting away with it.  Alarmingly, their bigotry is getting worse and most disturbingly, they have not been called to account. Many do not believe liberals are capable...