Archive for July 24th, 2008

  • Young conservatives worry about McCain’s appeal

    From cyberspace to college campuses, many young conservatives are worried that Sen. John McCain is not appealing to their generation.

  • Rice: Pakistan must up fight against Taliban

    Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.

  • Students offer reward for Rice arrest

    U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is seen in Singapore before traveling to Australia and on to New Zealand on Friday.New Zealand students protesting the Iraq war offered a reward to anyone who carries out a citizen’s arrest of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country Friday.

  • Key House Races Shift Towards the Democrats (CQPolitics.com)

    CQPolitics.com - When CQ Politics rated the congressional races last fall, we said: “the Democrats are in a strong position to expand their congressional majorities” in the 2008 elections.

  • AP Exclusive: Secret Service wants more money (AP)

    A Secret Service agent watches as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addresses a National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference in Washington, June 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (USA)AP - The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency’s campaign security job.

  • Israelis, Palestinians: Mixed feelings about Obama (AP)

    Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Both Israelis and Palestinians came away from Barack Obama’s visit to the Holy Land with the feeling he would do more for Mideast peace than President Bush has. But neither side seemed fully convinced that Obama would have their interests at heart.

  • Rice unconcerned by freelance campaign diplomacy (AP)

    U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a coffee with Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, unseen, in Perth, Western Australia Friday, July 25, 2008. Rice is making a brief semiformal visit to Australia at the invitation of Smith, who gave her a personal tour of his favorite sites in Perth. (AP Photo/John Mokrzycki, POOL)AP - If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is complicating the Bush administration’s foreign policy with freelance campaign diplomacy, she isn’t showing it.

  • Memorandum for the Secretary of State

    Emergency Fund Drawdown to Assist Zimbabwean Refugees in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, and Zambia.

  • Executive Order: Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

  • Message To the Congress of the United States

    Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the “order”) that expands the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, which was relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13391 of November 22, 2005, and takes additional steps with respect to that national emergency.