Bill Clinton

Clinton Health Reform Veterans Helping With Obama Overhaul Effort

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The Associated Press reports that aides who helped with President Bill Clinton's health care reform effort are pushing to help President Barack Obama pass his health system overhaul this year. The aides "are adamant that the Democrats can't afford another health care disaster. But they're divided on whether scaling down Obama's plan would be an acceptable solution. ... 'If Bill Clinton couldn't...

• Clinton-era aides watch health care debate in horror - Raw Story

Bill Clinton Chose The Two For One Deal. The Hildebeest.

AConservativeEdge (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

1 in 5 prefers pet to partner for Valentine’s Day. Younger, less affluent more likely to choose non-human company on Feb. 14.True love: According to a survey of 24,000 people in 23 countries, 21 percent of adults would rather smooch their pet than their spouse on Valentine’s Day. Least likely to choose non-human companionship: the French, [...]

Liberal Birtherism – AKA Hillary And Bill Clinton. She’s Baaaack!

AConservativeEdge (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

John Avlon Reveals Birtherism’s LEFT-Wing Origins. I beat up on the folks at the Daily Beast a lot for their left-of-center commentary, so it’s only fair to give ‘em some credit when credit’s due. Today, Wingnuts author John Avlon offers a surprising history of Birtherism’s conservative liberal origins: But there’s an inconvenient truth liberals are [...]

Bill Clinton Likes Queen Latifah

Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | yesterday

Bill Clinton was in Miami on Friday attending a BET telethon fundraiser for Haiti, and, other than his personal investment in Haiti's rebuilding efforts, one of the take-away points from this interview with EXTRA was that the former president is a fan of Queen Latifah: "You know whenever I see Queen Latifah doing well, it reminds me that once in a while the good guys win. I think she's a really...

• Bill Clinton Received by Queen Latifah in Miami - Extra Weblog

Bill Clinton's White House Believed DADT Would Discourage 'Practicing Homosexuals' From Enlisting. While 'Advancing' the Lives of Existing Gay Soldiers

Queerty (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a July 1993 article, the New York Times quoted a White House aide, when President Bill Clinton signed Don't Ask Don't Tell into law, that the policy "is going to discourage acting, practicing homosexuals from being in the military" but "will lead to significant advances for homosexuals in the military. It will clearly state [...]

Coca Cola, Standard Chartered and the oil industry - a force for good?

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Could Coca Cola heal the world? Or Standard Chartered Bank or Chevron oil, for that matter? These giant corporations have money and skills. They do business in difficult, hard-to-reach places. They make things happen. So how much could be achieved if they put their efforts into global health? John Tedstrom, president and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria ,...

GOP terror attack machine: wtf is their problem?

WTF Is It Now?? (Free subscription) | 32 minutes ago

Well, that's all they've got. “Criticism of Obama is irrational, irresponsible and painfully partisan,” says Richard Clarke , chief counterterrorism adviser on the National Security Council for President Bill Clinton and Pretzaldunce George W. Bush: The evidence is clear that the GOP talking point machine, repeated by Fox television commentators and others, does not bother to learn the...

From the Vault: Cuban Immigrants, 1994, by David Henderson

EconLog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

In going through some articles this weekend, I found the following, reprinted in full. It's titled, "Cubans Want Freedom, Not Welfare" and was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , September 30, 1994. The Chicago Tribune published an almost-identical version around the same time. It's still relevant today: Start with two principles. First, no one has the right to force us to pay for...

Rybak and MAK as frontrunners (with poll)

MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

This past Friday, Almanac featured the two top finishers in last week's DFL preference ballot , R.T. Rybak and Margaret Anderson Kelliher. During that show, Rybak and Kelliher did little to encourage any other candidates into the top tier -- a heads-up race sounds like it's just fine with both candidates. Contrasts were on display during Friday's Almanac, and so are parallels to the 2008 Democratic...

Is Killing Terrorists a Sign of Weakness?

kevin drum (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Yesterday Fred Kaplan wrote a blistering critique of Sarah Palin's demagogic mockery of Barack Obama's anti-terrorist cred: Obama, after all, has nearly tripled the number of U.S. troops sent to Afghanistan. He has approved nearly twice as many CIA airstrikes against Taliban targets in Pakistan during his first year of office as President Bush did in his final year (65 vs. 36), killing more than twice...

Why the Republicans Don’t Want to Go to the Obama Health Care Summit They’ve Been Demanding

2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

When Obama agreed to the Republicans’ demand for a televised summit to discuss health care, Republican leadership was faced with a quandary: How could they say no and not look like the bad guys? Their solution is apparently to demand that Obama preemptively give up the reforms he has been working for the past 8 months on ( the framework of reforms that is broadly popular even though the legislation...

Realty slaps Democrat fantasies

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Matt Welch: In just about every speech at their 2008 convention, Democrats promised voters that a change in the White House would, in Barack Obama’s formulation, restore “our moral standing” in the world. Replace the unilateralist cowboy at the top with a humbler multilateralist, and the path would finally be cleared to fix vexing international issues such as curbing carbon emissions...

• Back to the Drawing Board - davos

William J. Clinton Foundation Found in Violation of Better Business Bureau Standards

JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Bill Clinton has had his share of criticism over receiving fees in shady deals (here) and raising tens of millions of dollars from foreign sources while Hillary Clinton serves as Secretary of State (here and here). He is now facing a stinging report from the Better Business Bureau, which has found that his [...]

Singer George Clinton’s son found dead

India Talkies (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

London, Feb 9 - Sixty-nine-year-old American singer George Clinton is mourning the death of his son who was found dead Feb 1. The body of George Clinton, Jr., was discovered at his home in Tallahassee, Florida, reports contactmusic.com. The 50-year-old appeared to have died from natural causes. Related posts: Obama, Bush, Clinton urge more donations for quake-stricken Haiti Obama, Bush, Clinton seek...

The Zionist "Crusader" Paradigm

My Right Word (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Many Arabs indigenous to the Land of Israel see Zionism as just another "Crusader" phenomenon. See: David Ohana, " The Cross, the Crescent and the Star of David: The Zionist-Crusader Analogy in the Israeli Discourse ", Iyunim B'tkumat Yisrael 11 (2002). pp. 486-526 (Hebrew) And now this :- Despite centuries of conflict and countless Crusades, the Christian armies ultimately failed...

Celebrity Ryder Cup 26-29 Sept 2010 to be Played at 'The Belfry'

kr group events | 11/01/2010

Golf Clubs – Famous Players – All Star Cup The CELEBRITY RYDER CUP is a golf contest where celebrities pitch their golf clubs against each other - it features some of the world’s most famous players. – Famous players The CELEBRITY RYDER CUP sees Team Europe and Team USA go to battle with their golf clubs as famous players are pitted against each other. Golden Golf Clubs The three-day golfing marathon...

Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years

zada1 | 04/12/2009

WASHINGTON — When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look into accusations that officials in one state had illegally intimidated blacks during a voter-fraud investigation. But division supervisors refused to “approve further contact with state authorities on this matter,” according to a new report by the Government Accountability...

• Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws Dropped During Bush Administration - Three Wise Men
• Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years - Vox Verax