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The people have written! After sorting through scores of nominations from readers, I am dyspeptic to present another recipient of the “Educated Idiots Award” (EIA), which is given to the arrogant intellectuals unacquainted with real life who foist their insane

Colorado, like every other state in the nation, is struggling with revenue. So what’s a state to do? Well, let’s see, the state already taxes income, gas, sales on goods, personal property, corporate income, entertainment, energy, phones, etc. All that’s

This week marks the one year anniversary of Susan Rice’s confirmation by the United States Senate to represent the American people at the United Nations. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. has faced some serious foreign policy challenges such

Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com NPR: Today, the State Department says, it’s launching a Twitter contest to “tweet what you think democracy is in 140 characters or less.” The person who gets the most “unique re-tweets” will receive

President Obama came back to work this week after leaving the Presidency for his Hawaiian holiday vacation. Hawaii proved to be a restful retreat for the President, his team and the White House press corps who all took time off

Embedded video from CNN Video CNN: The U.S. government has lowered the threshold for information deemed important enough to put suspicious individuals on a watch list or no-fly list, or have their visa revoked, senior State Department officials tell CNN.

We will call the whole thing off. Although the media altered the story line beginning in March 2001, the inescapable fact is that the Clinton administration doomed the Kyoto treaty by agreeing to something for which there was insufficient will

In March 2000 Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the keynote speaker at a controversial youth conference at Tuft’s University . This conference sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was fully supported by the

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.] Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent

On Feb. 13, 1985, I stood in the Theaterplatz in Dresden listening to Erich Honecker give a speech. The speech was not simply one of those standard commie stemwinders to which those of us reporting from Eastern Europe and the

Recently, actor Matt Damon narrated a video for the State Department, addressing the problem of chronic worldwide hunger. The video is extremely well made; those who watch it can’t help but be touched by it. This first minute of the

The San Francisco Bay Area may just prove to be the 3 am the wake call the Obama Administration doesn’t want. This November 3, a potential trend setting – special election – is taking place in Congressional District 10. CD

So the U.S. and Iran just had what’s been called “significant” talks concerning Tehran’s nuclear plans. The goal for us, was two fold: to get Iran to “shift course,” and to prove President Bush was an idiot for not negotiating

Russia Today: A diplomatic incident has broken out between Moscow and Washington after a spicy video of a U.S. embassy employee appeared on the internet. The U.S. State Department has dubbed the video footage – depicting diplomat Kyle Hatcher with

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC: Guards hired by the State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in a “Lord of the Flies” environment

According to PolitiFact.com the Obama administration has thus far appointed twenty-eight czars! You may have missed some of these but we now have a Great Lakes Czar, so those lakes stay in line and don’t opt for moving to Canada.

Hollywood used to be the land of make-believe, but those days are fading fast. Today, Scarlett Johansson offers debate counseling to Barack Obama (her e-mail pal), and A-listers come and go at the White House as if it’s the Beverly

Event in progress…we go LIVE to Washington, D.C. …reporting live on this historic occasion. A crisis of epic proportions may have been averted…by an invitation from the White House to simply sit down …and have a beer. This creatively innovative

Fox News: Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group. But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups

The MSM discreetly reports that President Obama hasn’t exactly been making good on his pledge to appoint ambassadors from the ranks of foreign service professionals rather than campaign contributors. His pick for Canada, for example, as well as his choice

Embedded video from CNN Video AFP: According to computer security experts, a dozen US government websites, including those of the White House, Pentagon and State Department, were targeted in a coordinated cyberattack which also struck sites in South Korea. South

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was treated at The George Washington University Hospital, just a few blocks from State Department headquarters, before going home. She will undergo surgery to repair her elbow in the coming week, chief of staff Cheryl

The tin-pot dictator, Kim Jong-Il (who has turned his entire country into a Communist Gulag) has snatched a couple of American journalists, dragging them across the border from China to be tried on trumped-up spy charges and sentenced to twelve

I ask you, folks, wouldn’t this make a great movie: Late 1950s, Toledo, Ohio, USA. The Hero, rugged, blue-eyed, blonde-haired, is a searcher, misunderstood by family and friends. He is a freewheeling, Kerouacian type who in his twenties never kept

Embedded video from CNN Video Sky News: Both the US State Department and the Japanese government have issued stark statements condemning the blast-off. Japan said the launch was “regrettable” and the US called it “provocative” and said “appropriate steps” would

People are still buzzing about Barack Obama’s apparent “dis” of Gordon Brown last week, when the British prime minister paid his first official visit to the new president at the White House. Brown presented Obama with the following gifts: •

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the United States is concerned about recent behavior in Iran. Clinton added the state department is doing a review of all tactics on how to approach Iran.

MSNBC: Vice President Biden administered the oath of office to Hillary Clinton at a State Department ceremony — and momentarily botched the oath by tripping over his words, but made a quick recovery (even though the crowd had chanted “Get

AP: Witnesses say the shooting was unprovoked but Blackwater, hired by the State Department to guard U.S. diplomats, says its guards were ambushed by insurgents while responding to a car bombing.

Reuters: US Secretary of State Rice makes a landmark trip to Libya, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in more than half a century The State Department said Rice’s trip is a tangible sign of warming U.S.-Libya relations,

David Hose, a victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks says that he’s still hurting years after being exposed to anthrax while on the job processing mail at the State Department.

AP: The U.S. State Department responds to an Associated Press investigation showing that exports to Iran have grown tenfold since President Bush took office. A spokesman says the items are designed to help the people of Iran, not the government.