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The disputable meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and President Obama will be held today in the White House. Mr. Maliki will be accompanied by Hadi Ameri, a government minister who has been the Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards 9th Badr corps.
An old Latin proverb goes "Corruptio optimi pessima," or corruption of the best becomes the worst.
Spitzer and Matalin focus on the Big Two 2012 issues: go back to Bushonomics or stick with Teddy Obama? And there's consensus that GOP anti-immigrant rhetoric risks losing Hispanic voters and swing states. Like Texas?
Investors may be losing confidence in whether Google can support the legality of its revenues -- and for good reason. Where there's smoke, there's fire and it smells like a fire in the house of Google.
Clinton showed in her speech that ultimately there must be a line in the sand before it turns into the quicksand of cultural relativism. Some things are just not negotiable. Otherwise, you slowly strip the "universal" out of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Secretary Clinton's attendance at the conference is testament to the United States' leadership and commitment to protection of and humanitarian assistance to refugees, stateless, and other vulnerable people worldwide.
Tuesday's developments were a great step forward for LGBT international human rights. We certainly hope it is a sign of further progress to come in the trend toward a greater global recognition that LGBT rights are really core human rights.
In a rhetorical move evoking a Walt Whitman poem, she conjured up images of gay people all over the world. She then went on to state, "Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality." Actually, being gay is a Western invention.
The stunning events in Geneva mark the moment Barack Obama secured a national LGBT vote for his 2012 re-election campaign. Today we felt hope -- but more importantly, we witnessed monumental change.
Any doubt we might have that the Israeli right has lost its mind should be eliminated by the latest column from one of its most prominent media figures, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post .
The imminent détente with Burma has continued to generate criticism from those who suffer from the appeasement complex, a syndrome that causes politicians to conflate diplomacy with selling out and negotiating with kowtowing.
Matalin and Rosen debate personal flaws of the Final Three. Obama a loner? Romney a phony? Newt a blowhard with "baggage"?
Consider how Newt, newly-re-elected to Congress in 1996, suddenly resigned his seat, forcing the government of Georgia to fund a special election, when it became clear that he'd no longer be Speaker of the House.
With each passing day, the reasons for avoiding intervention in Syria are falling by the wayside. The conflict is escalating, the humanitarian crisis is deepening, the opposition is organizing, and the geopolitical situation is becoming more favorable.
If Obama puts Clinton on the ticket, enthusiasm surges. Voters register. Organization mobilizes. Turnout soars. The base rallies. Main Street will be reassured.
In light of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's three-day visit to Burma/Myanmar, the first by a top American official in 50 years, I'm taking the li...
