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Perhaps it is just the unseasonably spring-like weather in Beijing today – blue skies, light winds and temps a balmy 10C – but I find myself reviewing the fallout from the Dalai Lama’s meeting with Barack Obama and finding some cause for celebration. Predictably enough, today the Chinese hauled in the US Ambassador Jon Huntsman for

Looking for a bit of light reading this weekend? Then look no further than the 400+ pages of the Economic Report of the President (the hotly anticipated sequel to the Economic Report of the President) which, for the first time, has been made available as a free e-book. That includes versions ready to be delivered to your Kindle or Nook (the former of which is already sitting at #46 on the bestseller list), and an ePub version for Sony readers and other devices. Will this be the final step that truly pushes e-books into the mainstream? Probably not. But if this rapid adoption of technology by the White House is any indication, we could well see weekly Presidential addresses in 3D next year. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] White House releases economic report as e-book originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Khloe Kardashian wants to make a “solo sex tape”. The socialite admits she has considered making a raunchy film to send to her husband, Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Lamar Odom, when he is away with his team.

“Run, Sarah, run!” chanted the audience as Sarah Palin left the stage at the Tea Party movement’s convention in Nashville, Tennessee last Saturday – and they were not advocating a quick getaway from an arena in which she had triumphed. They were articulating the desire of many (though not all) among the Tea Party constituency

Forget “Snowmageddon”. Washington may be deluged under nearly three feet of snow, but Barack Obama is experiencing a sinking feeling of another kind. The latest US polls, highlighted here by Daniel Foster at The Corner at NRO, are stunningly bad for the president. Frankly, the Titanic’s prospects looked better than Obama’s do today, even after

The first year of Barack Obama’s presidency was marked by a series of embarrassing and groveling apologies for his country on the world stage. From his apology to the French for America’s supposed “arrogance”, to his massive mea culpa before the Muslim world in Egypt, President Obama succeeded in elevating national humiliation into an art

I’ve noted several times how Hillary Clinton has backed the creation of a European superstate, and how the Obama administration is the first US government to wholeheartedly support the European project. But their stance on EU integration seems strikingly at odds with their claim to support the principle of national sovereignty. In a major address earlier

Nick Clegg is a decent sort. But his opinion piece in today’s Telegraph is remarkably silly. He begins by saying that, while he values the Atlantic alliance, he feels we ought to be a bit more assertive vis-à-vis Washington. “On far too many issues,” he avers, “Britain has acted as a passive satellite state for American interests”. OK.

President Barack Hussein Obama is the gift that keeps on giving – at least in his efforts to ensure that the Republicans will take the majority of Congress in November this year. In Obama’s State of the Union Speech, he racked up some memorable records: more than 100 references to himself; more than a dozen “straw

Will Smith wants to be the President. His wife Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed her actor husband is seriously considering swapping the big screen for politics and has his eye on one day making it all the way to the White House.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, here comes another plan for state regulation. Barack Obama wants to restrict the private activity of financial institutions, including those which never asked for a bail-out. Gordon Brown wants to copy him. I have remarked many times before that every measure taken by Labour in response