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Hillary in Pakistan

United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held separate meetings with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here and discussed ways to strengthen the bilateral relations

Guardian of the West: Leon Panetta on Meet the Press

DAVID GREGORY: Our guest today on Meet the Press, CIA Director Leon Panetta. Welcome, sir. PANETTA: Good Morning, Tim. I heard you’d passed away. Glad you’re back. GREGORY: Uh, thanks. How do you see the Afghan struggle playing out? PANETTA:

I Condemn the NAACP: It Needs to Wake Up!

I condemn the NAACP. I am really upset over their recent charge that the tea party movement is racist. When will these people wake up? What is the basis of their allegations? Speaking from experience, I will say that the

Severing the Taliban Lifeline

General David Petraeus’ new command over the war in Afghanistan should be accompanied by a drastic change in U.S. policies that have turned this failed state into the world’s leading source of opium and Hashish. Afghans now cultivate more than

WTO Delivers Victory for Boeing, US Trade

In a victory for American trade interests, the World Trade Organization rebuked the European Union for issuing government subsidies to European companies, giving them an advantage in international contract bidding. In what is being called a “stinging rebuke,” the WTO

The Unaccountability of Peter Orszag

Office of Management and Budget Director, Peter Orszag is one of the first major players of the Obama administration to call it quits. Orszag was touted as one of the most brilliant minds in number-crunching, especially by Ezra Klein, who

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Andrew Sullivan

Leave it to Andrew Sullivan. It’s been 24 hours since I offered $100,000 for the full list and contents of the Ezra Klein’s four-year experiment in political-journalist editorial collusion — the on line progressive jazz fusion station known as JournoList.

Senate Hearings Begin on Supreme Court Pick Kagan

From Reuters: Republicans have questioned whether Kagan, a former Harvard law school dean who has served in the past two Democratic administrations, is driven more by politics than law. Democratic backers call the 50-year-old nominee, who last week received the

Actually, Obama Agrees with Helen Thomas

Timing couldn’t be worse on this one, and frankly, we are broke. Via the NYT: President Obama promised a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday, as the United States scrambled to come up with

Census Hiring to Spike Job Figures in May

From The Hill: Hiring by the U.S. Census Bureau is expected to spike May’s job figures dramatically. Economist Mark Zandi of Moody’s.com projects the economy will have added 575,000 jobs in May, while the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) rough projection

Obama Names Carville 'Right-Wing Threat Assessment' Czar

Washington, D.C. (Reuters) – In a hastily called news conference this morning just before first-period bell at a Washington grade school, President Barack Obama introduced James Carville as the administration’s new “Right Wing Media Threat Assessment and Quick Reaction Strike