Piano for the queen: Condi Rice plays the Palace

Live from the palace — Condi Rice on piano!

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excerpt: "" In a new interview with Fortune Magazine, Rice offered extremely sharp criticism of the idea of withdrawal and painted the consequences of this course of action with an almost Cheneyesque bluntness.

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In 2007 Condi Rice, Richard Boucher and British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant created a law called NRO to whitewash the illegal wealth of Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari and many other Pakistanis to help them come to power.

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A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that waterboarding was only used in controlled circumstances with effective results.

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On Sunday, surrounded by alumni and students, Lenny Siegel and I nailed a petition to the University President's office door. The petition, circulated by Stanford Say No to War, reads:

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Last week, former Secretary of State Condi Rice stated at Stanford University regarding torture: And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture." This week Rice backtracked, " The president sa …

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As a Conservative, I keep hearing that if you think Barack Obama is a lousy President, you're a racist. That's a lazy argument that only a stupid person would make.

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It's too bad we no longer have adults leading this country:

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While Vice President Cheney has publicly defended the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, other senior decision-makers at the time have remained silent.

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During her appearance on the Tonight Show, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice complimented the Obama administration and said that "we owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it." This was in stark contrast to Vice President Dick Cheney who attacked President Ob …

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BUSH IS GONE! - Too Bad He Didn't Leave Sooner.

Now, I don't want to sound bitter, but then, I just have to post this - because George, may he rot in Hell, Bush is finally gone.

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So outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was speaking in Ashkelon on Monday, and he said the most amazing thing.

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In an AP interview yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke highly of U.S.

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Blogging about the Bush administration sometimes feels like a graduate course in Orwellian concepts.

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Anyone who believes anything this old spinster has to say is insane!

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The San Francisco 49ers have already made a coaching change this season. Now they apparently have their eyes on an even more high-profile front office move. The 49ers have expressed interest in Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a possible candidate for team president...

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As the South Ossetia war raged in early- and mid-August, the Times published an editorial labeling Georgia's invasion as "Russia's War of Ambition"; it also published a series of hysterical op-eds, including William Kristol's comparing Russia to Nazi Germany (Hitler's charred sku …

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I just found this funny video on Youtube of Darth Vader spoofing Secetary Of State Condi Rice... I will say this however, comparing anyone in the Bush administration(particularly Cheney) to Darth Vader is an insult to Darth Vader...

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Agence France-Presse is reporting that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday it was "unacceptable" that there were so few black people like herself in the US diplomatic corps.

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Rice reluctant to say Palin has 'enough experience' on foreign policy.» In an interview with CNN's Zain Verjee this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered "a less-than-hearty endorsement" of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience.

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The US is continuing to ratchet up tensions with Russia in the aftermath of last month's war in the Caucasus.

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The Wall Street Journal reports today that "U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq's cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal of combat troops from the country" by 2011.

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John McCain's VP List: The pros and cons from a conservative's point of view

Now that the race is officially on (OK, Keyes hasn't dropped out yet, but he can't win anyway), John McCain has the sticky business of picking a vice president. This is extremely important, especially this year because of his age.

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"Israeli officials declined to discuss the details of the exercise. A spokesman for the Israeli military would say only that the country's air force "regularly trains for various missions in order to confront and meet the challenges posed by the threats facing Israel."

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In his book "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," Scott McClellan offers withering portraits of George Bush, Karl Rove, Condi Rice and Scooter Libby, confirms that we went to war in Iraq under false pretenses, and that we were seriall …

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My "dream team" would have Hillary as VP, Edwards as Attorney General, Richardson as Secretary of State, Dr.

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