As if we need another Harvard Law School product...
[BostonHerald] She's reportedly waiting until 2014 before she starts thinking about 2016, but Hillary Clinton, according to one national poll, is your frontrunner for the White House -- by a wide margin.
And Elizabeth Warren is your fastest rising star.
The former secretary of state and first lady dominated last week's new Quinnipiac University survey, which showed her gobbling up 61 percent of support and beating any Republican challenger -- be it New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul or Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz -- by anywhere from 13 to 23 points.
But no one in the past five months has made a bigger jump as a potential presidential contender than Warren, according to pollsters. At 7 percent, she ranked third among Democrats, behind Clinton, of course -- way behind -- and Vice President Joe Biden, who sat at 11 percent. We are truly fucked...
Horse race handicapping, when most of the candidates haven't yet stepped up to the gate. One does hope the Democratic bench will be deeper than this lot.
#6
The Wookie is not a black Hillary. It's not like she's spent the last 5 years deeply involved, building a network, and buffing up her credentials. She's in it strictly for the money, fame, and perks. I'd wager she has an even stronger aversion to work and responsibilities than her spouse.
#7
The Wookie will expect it to be 'given' to her as her rights as a 'woman of color'. She is an affirmative action baby. She hasn't 'earned' anything in her life.
As the United Nations wrapped up its 68th General Assembly last week, a major piece of news nearly slipped under the radar: Designs for the UN Consolidation Tower, a 36-story building that will flank the headquarters like an eager little brother, housing almost 3000 employees. But besides offering much-needed emergency overflow space, this new building could end up making the UN more secure as a whole. Where does the UN get it cash-ola for graft and corruption, again? The U.S.? It'll certainly made career kleptocrats more secure... Designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who will collaborate with local firm FXFowle on the project, the building is still in very early design development -- a vague grey tower that looks to mimic the basic proportions of the original UN. Sited directly south of the original complex (and connected to it through an underground tunnel), the building will sit on land currently occupied by the Robert Moses Playground. It's scheduled for completion in 2018 -- a tight time frame, for a tower in Manhattan that will house some of the more security-sensitive spaces in the city. Has the NSA arranged for bugging every room?
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I was hoping the U.N. would re-locate to somewhere outside the U.S.
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We had the opportunity to convince the UN to move when they were trying to get additional buildings but we didn't have the nerve.
We should offer Brazil, India and Japan our full support in getting them seats on the Security Council if they'd pony up land or cash to relocate the UN. They can pony up the offer and then we let the other Security Council Members be the bad cop for fear their vote will be dilluted.
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.
Designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who will collaborate with local firm FXFowle on the project, the building is still in very early design development -- a vague grey tower that looks to mimic the basic proportions of the original UN. Sited directly south of the original complex (and connected to it through an underground tunnel), the building will sit on land currently occupied by the Robert Moses Playground. It's scheduled for completion in 2018 -- a tight time frame, for a tower in Manhattan that will house some of the more security-sensitive spaces in the city.
