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The article criticizes the administration of United States President Bill Clinton for its neglect of human rights issues in its foreign policy towards China. China's brutal persecutions of Christians has caught the attention of people in the United States. Several conservative legislators in the United States have issued appeals for the Clinton administration to raise the issues of religious freedom and human rights in its dealing with China. The Clinton criticized those who call for raising the issues of religious freedom and human rights as radicals.

This article argues that the Republicans in the U.S. Congress are blocking the second-term agenda of President Bill Clinton. The author refers to the victory of Republicans in winning legislative battles on education, funding for the International Monetary Fund, and human rights. The most striking recent example of his scandal-induced feebleness is his inability to prevail on education, an issue that generally favors Democrats. The Senate's approval of the bill introduced by Senator Paul Coverdell to provide for tax-free education savings accounts represented a thorough rout of the Democrats. The President's entire education agenda was defeated, as the Senate blocked administration-backed amendments to fund school construction, 100,000 new teachers, and afterschool programs.

The article focuses on U.S. Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott. Lott remained an ally of the insurgents when he came to the Senate. After Republicans took the Senate in 1994 and Bob Dole became majority leader, Lott challenged Dole's pick, Alan Simpson, for the number-two slot. Lott won by one vote. In 1996, Dole left the Senate to run for president, and Lott won the contest to replace him as majority leader. Lott helped former U.S. President Bill Clinton in passing Chemical Weapons Convention, one of those agreements that assumed that peace was secured by paper promises from dictators.

This article notes the vagueness of U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and describes how it is shown in his position on whether U.S. President Bill Clinton is still fit to remain in office after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The article also examines the senator's views on a number of U.S. political and social issues. The author observes that Moynihan has long been the Heartbreak Kid for U.S. conservatives and that he has been doing this for over 20 years. He notes that despite Moynihan's vagueness, he still remains the liberal politician whom conservatives love best.

This article discusses the Whitewater Inquiry involving U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. The inquiry comprises of four components: Whitewater Development Corp. and Madison Guaranty S&L, the activities of the Clintons, sex, and cover-ups of the first three issues. These four issues indicate that the Clintons ran with a bad crowd, heightened in part by state-capital mores. Admittedly, some of the allegations against the Clintons are considered sleazy and embarrassing. However, the White House continues to deny that Clinton conducted business transactions for his wife.

Presents information on the activities of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Appearances in restaurants and nightclubs with celebrities; Comparison between his reported activities and his stated plans prior to leaving the presidency; Report that President Clinton aimed to create an ex-presidency which rose to the highest levels of statesmanship; Reference to a contract signed by him with publisher Alfred A. Knop regarding a book about himself.

This article presents news briefs on issues concerning world politics as of August 1994. Based on a public opinion poll conducted by the "L.A. Times," thirty percent of U.S. citizens are considering to re-elect U.S. President Bill Clinton. Chances for the proposed welfare reform plan of President Clinton remains slim. North Korean official paper "Rodong Shinmun" claimed that it will consider abandoning A-bomb plans if U.S. will aid them in building a light water reactor.

The article explains the arguments made by workers for the Environmental Defense Fund and Greenpeace regarding public health issues related to chlorine and its synthetic compounds. U.S. President Bill Clinton has a plan to establish a mechanism at the Environmental Protection Agency to phase out chlorine compounds wherever substitutes could be produced, no matter what the expense. There are reports that the paper industry to end its depositing in rivers and lakes of even trace amounts of dioxins, a family of unnatural chlorine compounds. Environmentalists are campaigning to get governments to ball all chlorine-containing compounds.

This article comments on a statement made by Brett Hulsey, environmental-policy advisor to U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton, in a conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in December 1992, regarding environmental job creation. During the conference, he said that Clinton has tough anti-pollution standards on his agenda, and that his approach to environmental policy will create extra jobs. However, several things should be considered in job creation. These include the potential productivity of the jobs, their financial equivalent and its consequences for the U.S. economy. On November 7, 1992, the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress released the paper, Derailing the Small Business Job Express, which examined environmental jobs that were created over the past four years.

This article focuses on news briefs related to political developments in the U.S. According to the CBS/USA Today poll, 60 per cent believe that U.S. President Bill Clinton definitely or probably lied under oath while he was the President. It is reported that elementary-school principal apologizes to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell after students attended Sierra Club rally attacking Campbell. Teachers thought it was Earth Day program on endangered species, accuse Sierra Club of misleading them. It is pointed that actress Jane Fonda apologizes for telling the United Nations group that parts of Georgia resemble Third World country because of tar-paper shacks and children starving to death.

The article reports that the U.S. Democratic Party has nominated the most liberal candidate since U.S. Senator George McGovern in the 1972 election. The author points out that Obama's brand of liberalism is different from former U.S. President Bill Clinton's, which was more centrist, and that it is up to U.S. Republican Party candidate John McCain to reveal what Obama's message of change really means.

The article discusses the reaction of the Bush White House to the federal criminal investigation by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leak of the name of a CIA operative. Since its inception in 2003 the administration has not been defensive about the investigation or attempted to cite any kind of executive privilege. President Bush has given the special counsel all of the information he requested and there is a question as to whether the White House has cooperated too much so that harm to the administration may result. A comparison is made between the Bush response and the defensive and evasive reaction of the Clinton White House to special investigations.

The article discusses the reasons for prolongation of the report to be submitted by independent counsel David Barrett on the investigation of the Henry Cisneros case. Former secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros allegedly lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about payments he had made to his mistress Linda Medlar. On September 7, 1999, Cisneros pled guilty and agreed to pay the required fine. Barrett's submission of the report after nine years of investigation is testament to the corruption of former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration.

The article criticizes U.S. President Bill Clinton's definition of hate crime. President Clinton wants to include within the definition of a hate crime any crime committed with an animus against the victims' sexual orientation, sex and disability on top of race, color, religion or national origin. An examination of President Clinton's statement in support of this expansive definition of hate crime clearly reveals the flaws in his reasoning. That is because there are many crimes that are not counted as hate crimes and yet they have similar motivations.

The article argues that the efforts of the Democrats to protect U.S. President Bill Clinton suggest that they deny the concept of truth. President Clinton remained essentially the same person throughout the sex scandal that buffeted his administration. It is the supporters of President Clinton who have to change their moral views in defense of him. It can even be said that the defense of President Clinton has been far worse that the crime he committed. Presents Clinton's dissembling was a mark of his awareness that he had committed something that the public regards as wrong. It is quite surprising that Democrats have the courage to deny well documented and substantiated facts in defense of President Clinton.

The article comments on the vacation activities of U.S. President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and their daughter at Martha's Vineyard in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts in September 1993. The President was criticized to be leaving the people alone with the political problems in the country. Even at vacation, the press still manage to capture footages of the activities of the first family. The footages then were broadcast which triggered the negative reactions of people to the vacation of the official.

The article contends that U.S. President Bill Clinton's plan to increase infrastructure spending will not improve economic growth. This plan is supported by economist David Aschauer of Bates College. According to Aschauer, through government investments in infrastructure, private sectors experienced an increase in productivity. However, many disclaim the idea that infrastructure spending will speed up economic growth. Many believe that government investment could impact private productivity, and the usual explanation is that well-maintained highways reduce transportation time.

The article offers U.S. and world news briefs, as of September 2013. It discusses a speech given by former U.S. President Bill Clinton about the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. It notes the U.S. Justice Department under U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said it will place a low priority on enforcing federal marijuana laws in states where it has been decriminalized. It reports on the win of Liberal Party candidate Tony Abbott in the 2013 Australian election.

The article presents a selection of news briefs and commentary related to U.S. politics, as of December 31, 2010. A press conference at which former President Bill Clinton is said to have upstaged President Barack Obama is described. A legal debate over whether the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution gives nearly unlimited power to the U.S. Congress is reported. Criticisms of Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele are presented.

The article presents news briefs regarding U.S. politics and culture as of the week of May 17, 2010. Comments by former President Bill Clinton regarding the tea party movement are addressed. The financial policy of New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie is discussed. The U.S. Supreme Court decision to remove bans on violent internet videos is also cited.

The article offers news briefs about prominent persons in U.S. politics and media. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has separated himself from his church after the televised antics of the Reverend Michael Pfleger. Candidate John McCain has gone public with his plans to control Iran, including global sanctions against Iranian banks and the freezing of the assets of regime leaders. "Vanity Fair" magazine has published an article about ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The article offers humorous commentary on current events for the weeks preceding February 11, 2008. The authors wonder where former U.S. president Bill Clinton would fit in U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's proposed administration of "honest and trustworthy" people. Also discussed are the U.S. presidential candidacies of Democrat John Edwards and Republican Ron Paul.

The article looks at U.S. news headlines from August, 2007. The U.S. Army claims investigations have shown that stories about American war atrocities from "The New Republic" Iraq War diarist, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, were fictional. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton and presidential candidate Barack Obama were questioned at a forum regarding their views on having both men and women serving in the military should a draft be instituted.

The article presents United States news briefs regarding events in the spring of 2006, such as: the sentencing phase of convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's trial, remarks made by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, an Iraqi beauty pageant, the Italian presidential election, a national debate over illegal immigration, and controversy surrounding the film "United 93."

The article focuses on the psychopathic disease called obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and applies its symptoms on some noted political figures of the U.S., including former President Bill Clinton. The author's discussion starts by referencing the novel "Only in America," by John Fowles. U.S. columnists, including Helen Gurley Brown, are considering OCD as a new neurosis. According to the author, OCD is shaping up into a mental-health crisis, complete with the usual exculpatory language. It is estimated that OCD afflicts around 2 million U.S. citizens. Treatment of OCD, suggestively, consists of a long, slow program in which the threatening subject of throwing things away is never mentioned. The author's aim is to suggest some solutions to the psychologically-influenced political problems.

Presents political briefs for the week of May 23, 2005. Declaration by Saudi Arabian chief justice of the supreme judicial council Sheikh Salah al-Luhaidan that it is lawful for young men to fight against the Iraqis and Americans in Iraq; Comments on the origin of the filibuster; Decision to reverse changes made to House ethics rules; Information on independent counsel David Barrett's investigation of former president Bill Clinton's HUD secretary, Henry Cisneros.

The author comments on the controversies associated with the U.S. presidential elections between candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000. According to the author, the most intriguing aspect of the Florida mess is former U.S. President Bill Clinton's unabashed joy in it. The author further comments that the movement for an easy-to-use national ballot will go nowhere because the country already has an easy-to-use national ballot. The author went on to say that constitutional arguments will be drowned out by endless charges that the Electoral College is elitist, patriarchal, anti-majoritarian and racist.

This article presents news briefs related to various socio-political issues in several countries. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, issued a statement saying that he warned incoming U.S. President George W. Bush about the threat from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The Catholic Church celebrated the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's papacy, a papacy sufficiently momentous to require reflection by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. U.S. Representative Henry Waxman has accused the Bush administration of cronyism and corruption in the decision to award some Iraq contracts to Halliburton, the giant services company that used to be run by U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney. For the first time a Muslim woman, Shirin Ebadi, has won the Nobel peace prize. A lawyer, Shirin has worked for women's rights in Iran, where no such rights exist in public or in private life.

Presents news briefs related to politics in the U.S. Campaign against nomination of John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general; Comments of former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the circumstances of George W. Bush's election; Information on an executive order signed by Clinton forbidding officials from lobbying their former offices for five years after leaving the White House.

The article presents news briefs related to politics in the U.S. The U.S. Census counted 281,421,906 Americans, without the help of sampling or other statistical legerdemain. U.S. President Bill Clinton is attacking U.S. presidential candidate George W. Bush as irresponsible for merely citing warning signs on the horizon of a possible slowdown in the country's economy. As many as 29,000 new Federal Register pages will be added in Clinton-administration midnight regulation. The economic cost of these new regulations could be $200 billion per year, a burden that would raise consumer prices, reduce corporate profits, and lower productivity enhancing capital investment.

The article comments on various political issues in the U.S. as of August 28, 2000. A curious criticism of the attempts by presidential candidate George W. Bush to appeal to minority voters is being made, but such attempts are said to be insincere. Pat Buchanan decided to run for president, for the third time, under the Reform Party ticket. President Bill Clinton has given two justifications for his veto of a bill to eliminate the tax code's marriage penalty. Christopher B. Daly, in "The American Prospect," defends presidential candidate George W. Bush and his supporters in relation to the issue of restoring the American society before the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.

The article focuses on the success of U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration. Clinton's political success could be attributed to several factors. For one thing, a booming economy and stock market definitely bolstered his reputation, to a minimal extent. What really contributed to the success is his standing for a combination of social liberalism and economic conservatism. In addition, Clinton is seen as capable of systematically addressing issues of race, crime, sex and family and work. He has also able to address the issue of government activism for the middle class.

The article exposes the writer and radio broadcaster Garrison Keillor as a political polemicist who hated the Republican Party and conservatism. While Keillor lambasts the Republicans, at every turn, including the sweeping victory of the Republicans in U.S. Congress in 1994, which he venomously characterized as "a new night fallen" with the advent of a party which "policies are evil," he heaps praises to the Democratic Party and U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. But his hatred of everything Republican is manifested in his disdain against U.S. soldiers.

The article criticizes U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore using a fictitious letter purportedly from Gore. The letter details a meeting among Clinton's and Gore's advisers and counsels regarding the Most Favored Nation (MFN)-status that the U.S. grants to China. It also describes Clinton as a childish president when he became annoyed by the news that Gore was included in People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." The letter suggest that the issue of MFN was influenced by lobbyists and law firms.

The article addresses some political and social issues around the world as of May 1994. In the U.S., former supporter Zbigniew Brzezinski sees Bill Clinton as the most disengaged president. In other news, former Nicaragua strongman Daniel Ortega can recover his position in the country. His position gravely weakened by calls for party reform plus continuing Sandinista ties to terrorists. In the meantime, Shroud of Turin back in news with claims of Protestant researcher Alan Whanger that only massive electron discharge explains Shroud's Roman-era markings and skeleton imprints.

The article presents a mock letter from U.S. Vice President Al Gore about several U.S. political and social issues. It describes the tendency of President Bill Clinton to deviate from important issues. It also deals with the immediate issues that must be addressed by the government like crime, healthcare and welfare reform.

The article describes the author's contender in school during the 1950s who displayed the qualities of a competitive woman. During the pre-feminist period, the great girl is the equivalent of the popular man in the campus who always find time to engage in extracurricular activities. The qualities of the great girl bear a resemblance of the characteristics of Hillary Clinton, wife of U.S. presidential candidate Governor Bill Clinton. Her confidence is not based on herself but on the feminist model on which the self is based.

The article discusses the legal career of Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of United States presidential candidate William Clinton. She was a legal counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal. She succeeded in promoting the rights of children and she has influence at major law firms in Arkansas. She is chairman of the Children's Defense Fund based in Washington and a member of five corporate boards. As a lawyer in Arkansas, she was the first to conduct the examination by satellite of a witness in a hospital outside the state.

This article focuses on the right of privacy, referencing the case of relationship between U.S. President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewisnky. An increasing debate over privacy issues began with an interview with Kenneth Starr, the chief investigator of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. The question of privacy arose at a recent public forum in Hartford, Connecticut. This arose after journalist Sidney Blumenthal's appearance before a grand jury to answer questions about the conversation with Clinton. But the focus of the argument quickly became the matter of celebritydom. A neglected aspect of the privacy question being raised is the question of congressional conduct.

The article comments on an editorial from the "Orlando Sentinel" regarding the case of Paula Jones against U.S. President Bill Clinton. The editorial proposes a law granting a blanket immunity for all officeholders covered within the list of presidential succession. A few observations are cited in the article regarding the proposal including the observation that the implicit forgiveness at the altar, given by the bride to the groom and the groom to the bride, is an act of faith in which are subsumed whatever exchanges the couple elected to make concerning past attachments and activity.

This article presents a satirical letter purportedly written by U.S. Vice President Al Gore and addressed to a political supporter named Rusty. In this letter, Gore expresses concern about a set of memoranda released by Harold Ickes implicating that he and U.S. President Bill Clinton were involved in illegal fundraising activities. Gore admits that he indeed called up people who eventually gave money to his political party. He refuses to call these money political contributions. he instead calls them celebrations.

The article presents fictitious transcripts of telephone conversations supposedly held between U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, and President Bill Clinton concerning the review of affirmative action laws. It offers information on the conclusion reached by the task force in charge of the review and the legacy of the Clinton administration.

This article predicts the development of an executive order concerning the stability of the price of international gold reserves in the U.S. in the late 1990s. The economic order is significant to the fiscal crises in the nation. This idea was in line with the risk of dollar devaluation in the near future which was caused by its increasing national debts. In addition, the predicted executive order is important to the efforts of the administration of President Bill Clinton to refinance the debt of $5 trillion at 3 percent of the country.

The article warns the administration of United States President Bill Clinton against making the idea of advancing human rights the foundation of its foreign policy. The danger of this human rights-based foreign policy is that it will alienate countries that are friendly towards the United States and force them to close ranks with hostile countries. President Clinton should learn the lessons of the administration of former President Jimmy Carter. The experience of the Clinton administration with China should have taught it lessons on how to deal with countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. The challenge for President Clinton in handling the country's foreign policy is how to balance the idealistic pursuit of the U.S. with the realities of international affairs.

The article comments on issues and events related to U.S. government and politics and foreign affairs for the week ended November 21, 1994. It is speculated that President Bill Clinton's decision to travel overseas was prompted by the reason that few Democrats wanted the president to campaign for them. First Lady Hillary Clinton is mistaken in referring to Carl Oglesby as a Methodist theologian during an interview with "Newsweek" about her spiritual journey. It is revealed that people in the U.S. have donated an average of $646 to charity in 1993, down 11 percent from 1989. President Clinton's visit to the Middle East has contributed to the rise of his public opinion poll rating.

This article focuses on the problem of decreasing demand for labor in the U.S. The unemployment rate has fallen sharply since 1992 despite decline in the number of jobs in the nation. Employment, reportedly, has grown by only about 2 per cent a year in 1993-94. If someone stops seeking a job, he is dropped from the unemployment rolls. This measuring criteria has resulted in showing the declining rate of unemployment, without any increase in the rate of job creation. President Bill Clinton's administration is currently focusing on how to increase the demand for labor. They are proposing community-service jobs for students and welfare recipients and public-works jobs for construction workers. Low growth of the labor force is expected to raise the prospect of severe problem in the U.S. labor market, ultimately slowing future economic growth.

The article explores several issues related to politics in the U.S. One is the statistics about the health-care crisis under U.S. President Bill Clinton. He revealed in his State of the Union speech that there are now 58 million people who lack insurance. In another issue, a number of questions about the death of Vincent Foster was raised by the New York Post. It questions whether his death was a suicide and observes the exit wound in his body caused by a gun. Another is the divorce of Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart on February 7, 1994.

The article assesses the chances that welfare reform will occur during the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton in August 1993. According to the author, the care and maintenance of welfare programs is the first order of business for liberal activists, and this will have an impact on welfare reform efforts. According to a theory by Charles Murray, author of the book Losing Ground, the welfare problem started during the 1960s, the time when unprecedented prosperity occurred. A report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claims that around 5 million families are enrolled in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. INSET: This land is their land, by T.B..

The article comments on various political and governmental issues involving the U.S. which occurred during the week of June 7, 1993. President Bill Clinton proposed a deficit-reduction trust fund to make sure that his tax increase will be used for deficit reduction rather than spending increases. The Agriculture Department will make federal disaster payments to farmers who suffer damaged crop quality, which, in turn, costs taxpayers millions in new federal farm spending. University of Pennsylvania law professor Lani Guinier is Clinton's nominee as assistant attorney general for civil rights. Conservative Democrats from Clinton's administration show disaffection to the enterprise-zone legislation proposed by Clinton.

The article looks at the background of Doctor Joycelyn Elders, director of the Arkansas Department of Health and U.S. President Bill Clinton's nominee for the Surgeon General. As director of Health Department, Elders spends more of her time outside the office, giving talks within and outside of the state. She has a reputation as one of the leading pediatric endocrinologists around. However, this is not enough to make her fit to become the next Surgeon General. In truth, the U.S. Senate she may be fit at all. Elders has been clear and outspoken of her support for birth control, abortion, sex education for Kindergarten and Medicaid payment for contraceptives. She has made it clear that she prefers the quality of life to life itself. Furthermore, she has tendency to violate rules and laws not only with her outspokenness, but also because of the decisions she made in her current post and as a former director of the National Bank of Arkansas. Clearly, the U.S. Senate need to look more than twice before confirming Elders' nomination.