[WASHINGTONPOST] When the University of Missouri at Kansas City was looking for a celebrity speaker to headline its gala luncheon marking the opening of a women's hall of fame, one of the names that came to mind was Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... But when the former secretary of state's representatives quoted a fee of $275,000, officials at the public university balked. "Yikes!" one e-mailed another.
So the school booked the next best option: her daughter, Chelsea.
The university paid $65,000 for Princess Chelsea Clinton's brief appearance Feb. 24, 2014, a demonstration of the celebrity appeal and marketability that the former and possibly second-time first daughter employs on behalf of her mother's presidential campaign and family's global charitable empire.
More than 500 pages of e-mails, contracts and other internal documents obtained by The Washington Post from the university under Missouri public record laws detail the school's long courtship of the Clintons.
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Another leftist brat with absolutely no merit being credited with a Family name (which also lacks true credit)
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Heck, I would have read the same speech for only $10000.
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10 minute pablum speech. 20 minute staged Q & A with no embarrassing Q's allowed. 30 minute VIP photo-op. I'd have done it for a LOT less and would've at least made it entertaining
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Donald Trump may soon be coming to a quinceanera near you.
Pinatas bearing the likeness of the billionaire mogul have begun popping up in Mexico, a response to controversial comments Trump made about Mexican immigrants.
Fair enough, and a much nicer response than, say, ISIS would have had to similar statements about them. Just remember that y'all don't get to actually vote in the presidential election north of the border, guys, k?
Dalton Ramirez, the artist responsible for the pinatas, said they are proving particularly popular with customers, as many want to bash Trump.
"The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems," Trump said during his Presidential campaign announcement speech. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
In response, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision announced they would no longer be partnering with the Miss USA pageant, of which Trump is a producer.
"At Univision, we see first-hand the work ethic, love for family, strong religious values and the important role Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans have had and will continue to have in building the future of our country," the company said in a statement.
Trump subsequently sent a letter to the company's CEO Randy Falco, banning he and his employees from appearing on Trump's Miami properties, including Trump's golf course in Doral, Miami. Well, that didn't take long!
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I'm sure that "the Donald" will lose a lot of sleep over those Pinatas.
Mexico might want to consider all the Mexican workers employed by Trump's various properties. I'm sure that there are enough Puerto Ricans abandoning that Democratic hellhole to replace all the Mexican immigrants working as hotel staff at Trump properties.
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Donald Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision on Tuesday for breach of contract and defamation, making good on last week's promise to punish the network for reneging on what he described as an "iron-clad" $13.5-million contract for broadcast rights to Trump's Miss Universe Organization pageants.
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John D. Rockefeller was mocked and ridiculed as well. The tens of thousands who enjoyed employment in his highly successful Standard Oil Company were somewhat less critical.
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
Check up on how Mexico treats non-citizen illegally in their country. Thy name is hypocrite.
It has been in the interest and action of the ruling caste in Mexico to rid itself of large segments of its population, indios y mestizos, to avoid true political and economic reform and to avoid revolution.
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Someone has to make all those pinatas, so Trump is creating more jobs there too!
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Trump subsequently sent a letter to the company's CEO Randy Falco, banning he and his employees from appearing on Trump's Miami properties, including Trump's golf course in Doral, Miami.
Any other politician mealy mouthed weasel would have promptly issued an apology or otherwise tried to "walk back" his statement. I may have called Trump a buffoon but his whole approach to this affair is as refreshing as a cool breeze from the ocean.
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On behalf of John D. Rockefeller, who was a self-made and highly religious man who worked like a dog for most of his life, and spent the waning years of retirement ferociously giving away his wealth hand over fist (and was known for keeping a pocket full of silver dollars for handing to random children encountered during the day), I have to register great offense at his having been compared with that vulgar, grasping four-times-bankrupt asshole, Donald Trump.
I don't know if Trump has materially changed his miserly obnoxious pretenses at charity in the last four years, but the last time I checked, he was more fond of charity theatre and playacting than actually helping his fellow man or investing in the future or progress.
Now, mind you, Rockefeller did a fair deal of silly stuff with his charity money - it's pretty rare to find a philanthropist who doesn't end up investing in at least a few dogs and malignant anti-charitable causes - but he still tried like hell, whatever the Rockefeller Foundation got up to after his death.
We only know Donald Trump's name because of his family's money, and his willingness to trade on good-old-boy banking networks and utterly shameless crony-capitalist horsetrading with the corrupt political classes of the tri-state area.
Donald Trump is scum.
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So his remarks hit a bit too close to the bone, eh?
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For those of you who require a more piñatas please see below. I believe that is Bruce Caitlin Jenner on the right
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] Is Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... the lost Beatle? Or channeling Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... circa 2008?
Her latest ad could certainly leave that impression.
The campaign ad, titled, "A Pledge," features the candidate reaching out to a girl who says she has cystic fibrosis. Within moments, the girl was in tears.
"When she reached out it was a really personal connection like, 'I am here, I hear what you're saying to me and I will do my best.'"
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[Daily caller] Emails released Tuesday by the State Department as part of the Hillary Clinton email dump reveal former White House advisor David Axelrod knew the former secretary of state had a private account despite recent claims.
Emails released Tuesday by the State Department show that former W.H. advisor David Axelrod knew Hillary Clinton had a private account despite recent claims.
According to the latest batch, two email chains show Axelrod did indeed correspond with the then-secretary of state -- once in June, 2009 and again in July, 2009.
The emails contradict recent comments by Axelrod to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, in which he said he would have "asked a few questions" and shared his "concerns" had he known about Clinton's private email account and server.
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I'm beginning to think that Hildie wanted the private server to keep the White House eyes out of her doing, as much as keeping the oversight Congress critters out. She wanted Sid Vicious onboard, and the WH hated that idea, and she wanted to run her own ops without Champ knowing what was up. Making her SoS muzzled her on many domestic issues and the WH was pretty much running foreign policy out of the NSC and bypassing DoS on many issues. What is most appalling is how everything, everything of this administrations actions, at home and abroad, are political first, PR second, and results third.
“We’ve seen just last week what happens when supposedly the Chinese have now hacked into the personell records of upwards of 20 million government employees. The one positive out of all that is that the only hope we have of maybe recovering Lois Lerner’s emails from the IRS is to get them from the Chinese,” Huckabee joked to a laughing crowd of sheriffs.
No one in the White House is laughing. No laughter from the Clinton camp or McLean, VA. either.
[Al Ahram] Some 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ... 's emails from her time as top US diplomat will be made public online Tuesday by the State Department, following the orders of a federal judge.
Will they be edited to prevent embarrassment, as previous releases turn out to have been, or will this lot be presented in a virgin state?
Clinton's electronic correspondence has been the focus of controversy since her admission in March that she had used a private account for all her email correspondence while secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.
Republican rivals contend that Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, used the private account in order to keep it out of the public record.
But she has argued that as of late 2014 she had sent 55,000 printed pages from roughly 30,000 emails to officials who will archive the data and make it available to the public, as is required under US law.
The remainder of the messages were deemed personal by Clinton and were deleted from her family's private server, she and her lawyers have said.
The State Department announced it intended to make the entirety of the Clinton archive public after purging it of classified or confidential information, a move backed by Clinton who vowed transparency in the process after stressing she chose to use a private account for reasons of practicality and not obfuscation.
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Aside from the actual topical content, I suspect the unedited versions might play hell with the kind, loving, granny image. Just a guess.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Clinton
[Daily caller] Emails released Tuesday by the State Department as part of the Hillary Clinton email dump reveal former White House advisor David Axelrod knew the former secretary of state had a private account despite recent claims.
