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When Al Gore ran for president in 2000 he said “our Constitution is a living and breathing document” that changes its meaning over time. This week we learned that among the things changing in Gore’s Constitution is the war power. It meant one thing when Bill Clinton was president, but means another thing now. Seven years ago, then-Vice President Gore supported Clinton in launching a war Congress didn’t authorize. Now, he says the Constitution denies President Bush the power merely to intercept an enemy’s communications in and out of the U.S.--without permission from a federal judge--in the midst of a...

A FORMER lover of ex-US president Bill Clinton has lost her effort to revive a defamation case against his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, and two of the former president's top aides. Former cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers came to public attention during the 1992 presidential campaign when she described a 12-year affair with Clinton, who later acknowledged a relationship with her. Ms Flowers charged that during the 1992 campaign Hillary Clinton had helped co-ordinate campaign attacks against her. She also said James Carville and George Stephanopoulos made defamatory statements about her. She had said in the suit that Senator Clinton, Mr...

LONDON, December 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Former US President Bill Clinton has done a one-minute video congratulating musician Elton John on his upcoming homosexual 'marriage'. According to the British paper, The Mirror, on the tape, which is to be played tonight at John's pre-'wedding' bash, Clinton says, "If there were more people in the world like Elton, then the world would be a better place." Despite his support for Elton John's homosexual union, Clinton's political manoeuvres on homosexual 'marriage' were dictated by political expedience rather than conviction. It was after all President Clinton, and not President George W. Bush who...

This is an edited repost of an article I wrote two years ago on the anniversary of Clinton's impeachment. First, an excerpt from a report from that most excellent day seven years ago: A while later the first article of impeachment passed the House ! Being that we had spread out along the avenue by that time, we sought each other out to cheer the good news. We then gathered at the Swamp to inform the WH press corps that "The Constitution lives !" and that it was "a great day to be an American !" During the next hour...

The former president who committed adultery with a White House intern and lied about it under oath is being rehabilitated by CBS News into a spokesman for good eating. On November 18, the CBS Evening News ran a segment on "Eating With Bill Clinton," giving the disgraced former president an opportunity to appear on national TV as a good role model. Nothing, of course, was said about his sexual addiction or serial womanizing. But his status as a "former junk food fanatic" who has had a heart by-pass operation was the focus of the story. Like a school girl with...

Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy.

Bill Clinton was reportedly delighted to hear that two of his impeachment accusers are planning to visit his presidential library later this month. At least that's what his spokesman Jay Carson said, when told that Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick plan to stop by the library on Oct. 26. "We're always happy to hear about new visitors," Carson told the New York Daily News. The visit comes as Mrs. Clinton rachets up her fundraising for a 2008 presidential run, a move Willey has vowed to oppose. "I have some words of advice for the former first lady: Remember the Swift...

TUESDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- In disturbing news for HIV patients, research now provides visual evidence that the AIDS virus ravages some parts of the brain, even in those who follow powerful drug regimens to remain healthy. By using high-tech scanners, researchers from two American universities found that the brains of HIV patients were 15 percent thinner in areas that control language, planning and movement. It didn't matter if the patients were on a drug regimen known as HAART, which often allows infected individuals to keep the virus from destroying the immune system. "The drugs clearly aren't stopping the...

Either Bill Clinton is not telling the truth now about the terrorist threat posed by Iraq during his administration - or he fibbed to the American people while he was in the White House. Clinton recently told his former staffer-turned TV commentator George Stephanopoulos that the U.S. government had "no evidence that there were any weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. But a recent report in the The Weekly Standard headlined "Clinton Revisionism" unmasks Clinton's flip-flops over the Iraq weapons of mass destruction issue. For example, during an appearance on "Larry King Live" back in July 2003, the former president...

Bill Clinton charms Indian actress Indian actress Diana Hayden was pleasantly surprised when former US President Bill Clinton recognised her during a recent visit to India, a newspaper has reported. The two first met at the White House in 1997 when he was still the US president and she was the reigning Miss World. They met again on September 7 when Clinton was the guest-of-honour at a reception in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, the Times of India newspaper reported. Hayden bumped into Clinton at the reception and asked if he remembered her. He replied: "How can a man...

Ex-president Bill Clinton endorsed his wife's call for a Katrina Commission on Monday, to probe what he called "failures" by Bush administration to respond quickly to the New Orleans flood crisis. "Our government failed those people in the beginning, and I take it now there is no dispute about it," Clinton told CNN. "One hundred percent of the people recognize that -- that it was a failure," he claimed. On Sunday Hillary Clinton called for the creation of a Katrina Commission, while insisting that the federal response to the hurricane efforts has been inadequate. Mr. Clinton endorsed his wife's suggestion,...

OTTAWA, August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Former US President Bill Clinton will be in the Canadian capital on October 18, 2005 to deliver a keynote address at the gala launch of an organization called Professeurs pour la liberté (PPL). This is not the first time, the "partial-birth abortion president" has ventured north of the border for a speaking engagement, and like his other northern excursions, his appearance will not be lacking in protest. While the cause of the inviting organization is a noble one, Clinton's presence will mar the evening. Professeurs pour la liberté aims to offer scholarships to young...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- The summer travel season is in full swing, the Clinton Presidential Library is drawing 2,000 visitors a day, and a new tourism phenomenon -- the "Billgrimage" -- is being seen 115 miles away in the town of Hope, Arkansas. "People are coming from the library saying they're making a Billgrimage to Arkansas; it's so cute," giggles Crystal Altenbaumer, director of the Clinton Birthplace museum in Hope. Among those on a recent "Billgrimage" was Ava Carter, a Democrat from Dallas, who convinced her Republican travel partner, James D. Stearns, to give their summer trip a Clinton...

It was billed as a strategy session for student activists, but it turned into the launch of Bill Clinton's latest role in American politics. The one-time commander-in-chief is now cheerleader-in-chief for his wife's undeclared but unconcealed run for the White House in 2008. The last Democrat president abandoned his notes to announce that Hillary Clinton was ready to win back America's highest office for their party. He was speaking at a seminar of college liberals in front of fellow high-ranking Democrats in Washington, the day after his wife's office launched a revamped website. Officially, it is part of her bid...

FORMER US president Bill Clinton arrived in Mozambique early today on the first leg of a six-nation Africa tour aimed at boosting his foundation's work in the fight against AIDS on the continent, a spokesman said. Clinton Foundation spokesman Joachim Salvador told AFP the former president had arrived, and an earlier press release said he would visit the pediatric section of Maputo Central Hospital later today. Some 300 children with HIV and AIDS are being treated with anti-retroviral drugs at the hospital, which is a beneficiary of Clinton Foundation funds. Ira Magaziner, who heads the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, said...

Is anyone watching this testimony? It is daming!

Kosovo Albanians to build Nazi monument Monument to fascism in central Pristina A memorial complex dedicated to the members of the notorious Skenderbeg SS Division, the Kosovo Regiment and the Albanian gendarmerie to be built on a surface of 1.5 hectares Belgrade - As all of Europe prepares to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the victory against fascism in World War II, at a meeting held on May 4 the Pristina municipal assembly made the decision to build a monument and memorial part dedicated to fascist collaborators, Glas Javnosti learned from its sources in Pristina. The decision foresees the building...

Six years after he became the only elected U.S. president ever to be impeached, Bill Clinton is now almost "beloved," says Newsweek's Howard Fineman. "Whatever desk he occupies, he will always be center stage," he gushed to MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday night. "That is the way [Clinton] is." Commenting on the ex-president's surgery this week, the Newsweek scribe added: "Everybody wishes him well. He's almost reached the beloved stage." Writing on Newsweek's web site two days later, Fineman still sounded like the president of the Bill Clinton fan club. "I imagine it’s tough, even for Clinton’s enemies, to hate...

Six years after he became the only elected U.S. president ever to be impeached, Bill Clinton is now almost "beloved," says Newsweek's Howard Fineman. "Whatever desk he occupies, he will always be center stage," he gushed to MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday night. "That is the way [Clinton] is." Commenting on the ex-president's surgery this week, the Newsweek scribe added: "Everybody wishes him well. He's almost reached the beloved stage." Writing on Newsweek's web site two days later, Fineman still sounded like the president of the Bill Clinton fan club. "I imagine it’s tough, even for Clinton’s enemies, to hate...