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In 1992, at the Republican National Convention, Patrick Buchanan gave one of the most poisonous political speeches of our era. Buchanan, who had run against President Bush as a protest candidate in the Republican primaries, was in Houston to endorse Bush against Bill Clinton in the general election. But the grounds for his endorsement went ...

Chelsea Clinton has snagged herself a nice Jewish boy. President Bill Clinton’s office announced today that Chelsea is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky. Clinton is a former McKinsey consultant now studying public health at Columbia University; Mezvinsky is a fomer Goldman Sachs banker now at a hedge fund. The couple sent an email ...

This morning, President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet jointly for the first time with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting, at the Waldorf-Astoria, was hastily announced Saturday and billed with very low expectations from all sides, with both Israeli and Palestinian officials warning that no one should ...

Last month, as the White House was engaged in orchestrating a carefully choreographed diplomatic dance on the subject of Israeli settlements, rumors surfaced on the Washington blogs that Hillary Clinton was thinking of bringing Sidney Blumenthal, a steadfast Clinton loyalist, to the State Department as a speechwriting consultant. But this week, as Clinton delivered her first major policy address at the Council on Foreign Relations, The New York Times reported that Blumenthal was among several Clinton friends whose appointments had been scuttled by the Obama administration.