Keep the public's money in the U.S.
It amazes me that a country that is living on borrowed money can give away more than $500 million, but can t give a cost of living increase to the elderly and has to raise everybody s taxes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently went to Af...
 1.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 138.0 Surprised the media elite backed Fox?
Nobody should be surprised to see the nation s esteemed celebrity news media align with Fox News against the White House. Supposedly, the press regulates its own behavior; in reality, that s been a joke for two decades. Today, even the fig leaf has b...
4.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 178.0 Fox war is a petty endeavor
Steve and Cokie Roberts, opinionPresidents usually turn to their secretaries of state for foreign-policy advice. But Barack Obama must have been channeling Hillary Clinton when he decided to attack Fox News. It was Clinton, of course, who blamed her ...
3.2K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 218.0 After angering Arabs on Israeli settlements, Clinton to meet with Arab foreign ministers
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared today to consult with Arab foreign ministers on Obama administration efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations, two days after she raised ...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 228.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 952.0 Bomb tears through Pakistan market
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A car bomb tore through a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan today, killing 57 people hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the country to show American support for its campaign against I...
0.7K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 178.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 248.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 248.0 Russia: New Iran sanctions won't fly
MOSCOW (AP) Russia pushed back today at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful, a setback to the Obama administration s desire to present a united front with Moscow. After meeting with U....
5.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 316.0 Clinton hopes to ease N. Ireland deadlock
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted the rival Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland s power-sharing government today on a mission to urge them to keep their awkward coalition working. Clint...
1.3K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 178.0 N. Korea test fires 5 short-range missiles
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast today, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor. South Korea s Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South...
3.4K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 178.0 Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ
Nahal Toosi and Zarar Khan, Associated Press Writers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's milita...
6.0K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 138.0 Obama weighs Pakistan s role in war
WASHINGTON Recognizing the U.S. can neither win in Afghanistan nor succeed more broadly against al-Qaida without Pakistan s cooperation, President Barack Obama s war council is weighing a new role for Pakistan in the eight-year-old struggle in the ...
4.6K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 138.0 Clinton, Gates: Goals steady in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama s top defense and diplomacy advisers said the United States retains the Afghanistan war goal that he outlined just two months into his presidency to sideline al-Qaida but changing circumstances require a reasse...
5.9K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 206.0 Top Afghanistan commander meets Obama in Denmark
COPENHAGEN (AP) President Barack Obama summoned his top commander in Afghanistan for a 25-minute meeting aboard Air Force One today as part of his review of a war strategy that has divided the president s national security team. Army Gen. Stanley M...
3.3K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 138.0 It's still about the economy, stupid
From a political standpoint, the worst thing about blaming President Obama s perceived difficulties on racism is that there s not a damn thing anybody can do about it. Determined bigots can t be shamed, while many see invoking race as more an excuse ...
4.1K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 178.0 Hondurans ordered off streets after violent night
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Honduras interim government extended an already long curfew through most of Wednesday after police skirmished with backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya throughout the night and arrested more than 100 people for vand...
5.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 138.0 Outcome is what matters
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party still clings irrationally to the notion that any health care overhaul in America must include a Medicare-style public option to succeed. Liberals in Congress have recklessly promised to vote against any ...
1.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 138.0 Clinton: Missile call is better for defense
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton vigorously defended the administration s new approach to missile defense in Europe, which critics assert will leave Europe more vulnerable. We believe this is a decision that will leave Amer...
1.8K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 732.0 Iffy math is part of health care plan
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation s health care system without adding one dime to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the de...
7.8K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 138.0 | 
