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Colbert to Clinton: Team up with Ted Talks for ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Initiative’
In a wide-ranging conversation Monday night at the Clinton Global Initiative University in St. Louis, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert jokingly suggested that the former president should team up with Ted Talks and form “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Initiative.” The quip came after President Bill Clinton explained his views on…
Bill Clinton introduces ‘Lincoln’ at Golden Globes
President Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance at the Golden Globes on Sunday to introduce a clip of Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln.” “A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided House of Representatives,” he said. “Winning it required the president to make a lot of unsavory deals…
Daily Show: Diplomatic mess with Chinese dissident all President Clinton’s fault
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest during a diplomatic visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this week and presented himself at the U.S. embassy seeking asylum. The U.S. initially portrayed this moment as a human rights victory, but that take on things quickly unraveled as…
GOP pollster: ‘Run, Barack, Run’ sticker belongs on front bumper
Fox News contributor Frank Luntz on Monday made a suggestion about running over the nation’s first black president with his car. Appearing at an event with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum in West Michigan, the GOP pollster warmed up the audience with a few jokes. Video of the event was…
Megaupload loses its top lawyer over conflict of interest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Content-sharing Internet service Megaupload.com has lost the help of one of the best-known U.S. defense lawyers as it begins to fight charges of copyright infringement, a person familiar with the matter said. Robert Bennett was required to withdraw from the case because of a conflict involving at…
World leaders attend Czech hero Havel’s funeral
World leaders gathered in Prague on Friday for the funeral of Czech Velvet Revolution hero Vaclav Havel, who died on Sunday at the age of 75. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton joined…
Judge mulls overturning federal marriage law
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge appeared sympathetic to a lesbian federal employee’s bid to strike down a law denying health-insurance benefits to her spouse, in the first hearing since the Obama administration decided to quit defending the statute. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White heard two hours of arguments…
Dick Morris ‘looking forward’ to seeing Cain’s accuser naked in Playboy
Fox News contributor and self-described sex addict Dick Morris says he’s looking forward to seeing a “spread in Playboy” featuring the fourth woman to accuse Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment. Morris told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Sharon Bialek was just looking to make money when…
9-foot-tall Reagan statue unveiled at National Airport
The Reagan Presidential Foundation on Tuesday unveiled a 9-foot-statue of the former president at the Washington, D.C. airport bearing his name. The $900,000 cost of the 900-pound statue was covered by private donations, as were the cost of statues that are being unveiled in Simi Valley, California; Budapest; and London.…
Bill Clinton offers to help Irish investment drive
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Former President Bill Clinton Saturday told Ireland’s Prime Minister and the cream of the country’s diaspora that he would host a summit in New York to help boost investment in the euro zone struggler. A veteran of Europe’s financial crisis, Ireland gathered a mixture of corporate leaders,…
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