The Paris Agreement aimed at combating global warming, which went into effect on Nov. 4, is exposed to the same crisis that beset the Kyoto Protocol adopted at the 3rd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997. When the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, the United States was led by the administration of President Bill Clinton.
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President Obama hits 60% approval rate
President Barack Obama will leave office Friday with his highest approval rating since 2009, his presidency largely viewed as a success, and a majority saying they will miss him when he is gone. A new CNN/ORC poll finds Obama’s approval rating stands at 60%, his best mark since June of his first year in office.
Homes are evacuated after a man took a World War I bomb to Swansea pub
The most expensive homes in the WORLD in 2016: The Playboy Mansion, a Park Avenue penthouse and a huge Dallas mansion are ALL beaten by palatial mansion in Hong Kong that sold for $270m Trump calls Buzzfeed ‘a failing pile of garbage’ for publishing ‘Russian hotel sex blackmail dossier’ and refuses to let CNN ‘fake news reporter’ ask a question at press conference ‘I did what any citizen should do’: Sworn Trump enemy John McCain admits HE handed smear dossier to FBI – because he had no idea if it was credible Democrats’ Senate leader Chuck Schumer hints at intelligence revenge plot on Trump as he says ‘they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you’ Donald says he was NEVER briefed on fake dirty dossier and NEVER shown it by intelligence chiefs and ridicules its claim he was taped with Moscow hookers by confessing he’s a ‘germophobe’ Did a 4chan user make up the most salacious parts … (more)
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Washington – A Rastafarian prophet, a former Taliban captive and thousands of minor drug traffickers have one thing in common: Their names have been submitted to President Barack Obama for clemency before he leaves office in two weeks. Some US presidents have used this regal power of leniency in a pointed way near the end of their term in office.
Obama is planning one last batch of pardons before he departs – but …
Under mounting pressure to free convicts as a last act, President Barack Obama is planning at least one more batch of pardons and commutations before leaving office in two weeks, but don’t expect many famous offenders to make the list. The list of bold names appealing to Obama for compassion in his final weeks includes accused leaker Chelsea Manning, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Army Sgt.
The Birth of the Imperial Presidency
Here we go again. As Donald Trump prepares to assume the presidency, the stage is set for a new and impassioned debate about America’s purpose abroad.
George, Laura Bush and Bill, Hillary Clinton to attend Trump inauguration
Former president George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush announced Tuesday that they would attend Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month. And Trump’s former rival Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton also will attend the ceremony, according to their spokespeople.
Obama’s Failed Presidencyby Conrad BlackLike most people, I had hoped …
We have been denied that, not by the candidates, who have been dignified, but by the outgoing administration. I have written here and elsewhere before that this has been the most incompetent administration since James Buchanan brought on the Civil War, but I had not realized how the immunity to severe criticism afforded President Obama, because of his pigmentation, had been allowed to disguise how inept this administration has been, how authoritarian and sleazy, and how the president’s demiurgic vanity has gone almost unnoticed as the toadies and bootlickers like Tom Friedman and David Remnick went into overdrive.
Youngstown CEO to host presidential party
A Valley businessman is invited to take part in President Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities in Washington D.C. After Trump takes his oath on Jan. 20, Bruce Zoldan, CEO and president of Phantom Fireworks, will be ready to party with the president. Zoldan also mentioned tweets from both Trump and his wife Melania Trump about how excited they are about the party.
Trump’s winter nest is lavish Florida club
When President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year this weekend, he did it with actor Sylvester Stallone, romance-novel cover model Fabio and a crowd of wealthy developers under the swaying palm trees at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. President George W. Bush had his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Trump’s winter nest is lavish Florida club
When President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year this weekend, he did it with actor Sylvester Stallone, romance-novel cover model Fabio and a crowd of wealthy developers under the swaying palm trees at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. President George W. Bush had his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Obama Using Russia as Cudgel Against Trump
The Republican establishment is being stampeded by the Obama Administration into unwittingly supporting the false narrative that “Russia hacked the elections” – and therefore President-elect Trump’s victory is illegitimate. By extension, Republican victories from Trump’s “coattails” in the Senate and House are also illegitimate, an argument the Left and their media allies are also sure to make.
Obama’s petty attempts to sabotage Trump are bound to fail :0
It’s easy to come up with several different reasons for the Obama administration’s moves against Russia and Israel. The repudiation of his policies in last month’s election would have wounded a normal person’s ego, to say nothing of someone as vain as Obama.
Becoming Citizen Obama: The Outgoing President’s Next Job
President Barack Obama leaves his news conference in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington, on Dec. 16, 2016. Excerpted from TIME’s “Barack Obama: Eight Years,” a definitive, one-of-kind 96-page, fully illustrated commemorative edition.
No Headline among Liberal Media Noted that Hillary Clinton Lost 5 Electors, Compared to 2 for Trump
NBC News covered how the final Electoral College vote sealed Trump’s victory and how a ‘drama-filled Electoral College’ final vote was fitting for the year 2016.
Limbaugh: Obama will create ‘unrest’ during Trump presidency
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh expects President Obama will “create all kinds of unrest and disunity” once President-elect Trump takes the oath of office next month. “The first moment that Trump does anything that is the unraveling of an Obama agenda item.
New York members of Electoral College vote for Clinton
New York’s 29 members of the Electoral College have cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton, who won the state despite losing the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump. Among the electors gathered Monday in the state Capitol’s Senate chambers was former President Bill Clinton, who says he’s never been prouder of any vote.
Donald Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany
Jumping ahead of investigators, President-elect Donald Trump is blaming Islamic terrorists for deadly violence in Turkey and Germany and vowing anew to eradicate their regional and global networks. Authorities in both countries were still investigating Monday when Trump issued a pair of statements condemning the attacks, the same day the Electoral College formally awarded him the presidency.
Former President Bill Clinton Expected in Albany Monday
According to a source, Clinton will be in town to cast his vote in the electoral college for his wife, Hillary Clinton. Last week, that same source added that Secret Service agents were on the third floor of the Capitol Building near the Senate Chamber, where the electoral college will meet.
Jake Tapper Grills Loretta Lynch On HerTarmac Meeting With Bill Clinton [VIDEO]
CNN’s Jake Tapper grilled outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her notorious tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton in June, while agencies under her supervision were investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The interview, which aired Sunday, is part of series of public statements Lynch is making as she prepares to turn the Department of Justice over to Sen. Jeff Sessions, who President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to succeed her.
Half of Americans approve of Trump’s transition handling
Half of Americans approve of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition handling, while 41 percent disapprove, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll . Eighty-two percent of Republicans and 12 percent of Democrats approve of Trump’s transition handling.