Clinton warns Iran not to ‘miscalculate’ U.S. resolve as troops leave Iraq
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 24th, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Clinton warns Iran not to ‘miscalculate’ U.S. resolve as troops leave Iraq
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Iran on Sunday that the planned U.S. withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by the end of the year should not be mistaken for a lack of commitment to democracy in the region.
In an interview from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, her last stop on a four-nation tour of the region, Clinton conceded that Iraq’s stability is not ensured.
GOP candidates would cut federal judges’ power
Most of the Republican presidential candidates want to wipe away lifetime tenure for federal judges, cut the budgets of courts that displease them or allow Congress to override Supreme Court rulings on constitutional issues.
Any one of those proposals would significantly undercut the independence and authority of federal judges. Many of the ideas have been advanced before in campaigns to court conservative voters.
130 arrests as Occupy Chicago protesters defy order to leave park; 11 arrests in Cincinnati
CHICAGO — Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said.
Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that protests would continue in the Midwest city.
Biden open to running for president in 2016
Vice President Biden said in an interview airing Sunday that he would not rule out running for president in 2016.
Biden, who is 68 years old and would be 73 on Election Day 2016, told CNN’s Candy Crowley that he’s not focused on his future plans, but that he’s not foreclosing another run of his own in five years either.
In GOP race, how much electability matters may depend on ‘beatability’ of Obama
Winning in politics isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
But how important a factor electability should be in a voter’s calculation remains very much in the eye of the beholder, leading to an active debate within the parties about who has the best chance to win next November — and how much it should matter.
