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Hillary Clinton makes women her political priority

NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton took the stage here Thursday with her daughter, Chelsea, and actress America Ferrera to begin what the former secretary of state calls a series of No Ceilings conversations aimed at encouraging women and girls to aim high.

Yet as the political world waits for word on whether Clinton will once again aim for the highest office in the land, it seems as if shes been having these sorts of conversations for months now.

Ever since leaving the State Department in early 2013, Clinton has been traveling the country, delivering paid speeches and pushing the projects shes working on at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

And at many of those stops, the former first lady and Democratic senator from New York put her focus on erasing the often-hidden discrimination that frequently leaves women rungs below men on the professional ladder.

Thats just what she did here Thursday, detailing her No Ceilings project, which aims to measure the progress of womens rights worldwide.

Acknowledging that old-fashioned discrimination still exists in the United States, Clinton said: There should be no artificial barriers, so that individual women can always prove their worth and demonstrate they can fit into whatever role or job theyre seeking.

Clintons allies say such comments and her No Ceilings effort are simply the latest manifestation of her lifelong fight for womens rights. But Republican leaders see it as a less-than-subtle effort to engage women in a presidential campaign that is not likely to begin in earnest until early next year.

We all agree girls and women should have equal opportunity but the truth is Hillary has been a follower on this issue: She made a political calculation not to speak about opportunity in 2008, and shes making a political calculation to talk about it now, said Kirsten Kukowski, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. Who knows what she will really stand for if she were to ever make it back to the White House.

Whatever her motivations, Clintons effort to place women at the center of her agenda contrasts sharply with what voters saw in the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Facing off against a barrier-breaking African-American candidate named Barack Obama, Clinton waged a hyper-cautious campaign that never strongly stressed that she, too, could be a ground-breaker: the first female president.

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Clinton Aides Kept Tabs on Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

The Clinton White House kept a dossier on what Hillary Clinton once called the vast right-wing conspiracy.

The binder of opposition research on Republicans, part of todays release of roughly 7,500 pages of documents from the Bill Clinton presidential library, was indexed with topics ranging from Richard Mellon Scaife -- The Wizard of Oz Behind The Foster Conspiracy Industry to Communications on the Net Between Congressional Republicans and Right Wing Conspiracy Theory Proponents.

Its contents mirror the allegation that Hillary Clinton famously lobbed at Republicans in a January 1998 television interview.

The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he ran for president, she said.

The documents provide insight into former President Bill Clintons time in office as well as the role of his wife, who went on to serve as a U.S. senator from New York, secretary of state and is a potential candidate for the Democratic president nomination in 2016.

The research file, kept in the office of special counsel Jane Sherburne, laid out a communication stream of conspiracy commerce theory.

This is how the stream works, the author of the document, who isnt identified, wrote. First, well-funded right wing think tanks and individuals underwrite conservative newsletters, then post them on the Internet where they are bounced all over the world before landing in mainstream media. After the mainstream right-of-center American media covers the story, congressional committees will look at the story and then the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by everyone else.

Richard Mellon Scaife, the newspaper publisher and Mellon fortune heir, is the central player identified in the dossier. He is singled out for sowing doubt about whether White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide and for his financial backing of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican organizations.

Scaife uses his financing of the fringe, right-wing publications and non-profits to create a communications stream of conspiracy commerce, the author wrote. The stream effectively conveys the rantings of the fringe into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media.

Although the research file is undated, the last newspaper clippings in it are from 1995, suggesting the idea that Republicans were building a network against the Clintons had taken hold in the administration long before the former first lady articulated it on television.

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Chelsea Clinton Is Pregnant: Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton Tweet About Becoming Grandparents!

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are arguably the most excited grandparents-to-be around.

Chelsea Clinton's proud parents took to Twitter to adorably express their joy about their daughter's pregnancy.

"Excited to add a new line to my Twitter bio...grandfather-to-be!" the 42nd president tweeted on Thursday. He added: "@h and I are so happy for Chelsea and Marc!"

The former secretary of state wrote: "My most exciting title yet: Grandmother-To-Be! and I are thrilled that Chelsea and Marc are expecting their first child!"

VIDEO: Watch Chelsea Clinton announce her pregnancy

The glowing 34-year-old announcedon Thursday in New York City that she and husband Marc Mezvinsky are expecting their first child. She broke the exciting news during a joint event with her mother for the Clinton Foundation's "No Ceilings: The Full Participation" project.

"I have one more thing to say very quickly," the former first daughter said near the conclusion of the event. "I just want to thank all of you for being such an inspiration to us and to me in particular. Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year."

"And I certainly feel all the better, whether it's a girl or a boy, that she or he will grow up in a world with so many strong, young female leaders," she said.

Clinton also took to Facebook and Twitter, writing, "Marc and I are so thrilled to be expecting our first child in the fall! Thank you for all of the kind words!"

Besides Hillary and Bill, several other celebrities offered their well-wishes for the couple.

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A Woman Throws Shoe At Hillary Clinton – Video


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Hillary Clinton Vs George Bush – Who dodge the best? – Video


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