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According to The Telegraph, Kerry seemed to confuse the country of Kyrgyzstan with its northern neighbor, Kazakhstan: The State Department kindly omitted the error in the official transcript of Wednesday’s speech, which Kerry delivered on the eve of his first foreign trip as secretary of state. Kerry’s flub was all the more awkward, because Kyrgyzstan is a key ally in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a major recipient of US aid, which totalled $41 million (£27 million) in 2011.Washington has actively promoted democratic development in the country since pro-democracy revolutions topped strongmen in 2005 and 2010, leading to free...

No, just kidding. Plenty of other people in the media can and will celebrate it this way too.

Obama (pretending to like girls) with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra... h/t Speedunque

This photograph, released by the White House on Thursday, reveals the terrible moment when President Barack Obama was told the shocking news about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The President, who has described the day of the shootings as the ‘worst day of my presidency,’ is seen bowing his head and closing his eyes as John Brennan, his deputy national security adviser, informs him about the tragic events unfolding in Newtown, Connecticut. In the wake of the tragedy, the president has tasked his deputy Joe Biden with leading a task force to look at proposals to tighten current...

I know this pic has been posted to FreeRepublic many times but today I realised exactly what is going on here.At first glance it just looks like a disrespectful thug with his feet on the furniture.I think this posed image has a deeper meaning.Back when the other Hussein (Saddam) was being removed from Iraq,I remember seeing little kids spanking a toppled statue of Saddam on the face with a sandal.Then we were told that in the muslim world that to show someone the soles of your feet was a severe insult.Just google "muslim insult" and there is a ton...

Speaking at a plant in North Carolina about the tough economic times, PBO claimed that "what drives me every day as I walk down to the Oval Office" is the need to find jobs and economic security for everyone. But Obama opened his speech by bragging that "I have a better plane" than when he visited the same plant three years ago as a presidential candidate. Later, in explaining that he had brought the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness with him to North Carolina, Obama boasted "I travel with a bigger entourage" than he did as a candidate. View video...