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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of President George Bush to favor oil companies in oil-shale leasing.
The elder President George Bush will not be attending Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral.
European stock markets rose modestly Tuesday in very light pre-Christmas trade ahead of an expected rebound on Wall Street ahead of key U.S. data, while Asian markets continued to fall in the wake of Toyota's second profits warning in just two months.
President George W. Bush is spending Thanksgiving at his Camp David retreat, thankful for his almost-expired "privilege of serving as the president."
More bad news for Republicans: Even the young people of Utah voted for Barack Obama, at least in a national student mock election.
With two days remaining until Election Day, Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs told voters in South Florida not to be scared away from the polls by long lines.
Democrat Barack Obama's "closing argument" speech Monday included a sweeping accusation against GOP rival John McCain: "Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy."
WATERLOO, Iowa - Sen. of Arizona, the Republican presidential nominee, said Sunday that he was a proud Republican but believed the Bush administration had failed in a number of areas, asking voters to remember that “I’m not George Bush.”
The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
In a faceoff that returned again and again to judgment, John McCain portrayed himself as a battle-tested elder running against a naive rookie, while Barack Obama suggested the Republican is a hothead who made the wrong choices on the Iraq war, corporate taxes and more.
Barack Obama likes to say, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term."
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy — the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it.
A Jefferson County Jail inmate has quite a tale to tell about how he got there. The nude man claimed to be Jesus Christ and George Bush when sheriff's deputies shot him with a stun gun after he ignored their commands.
NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something.
The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said she and her husband watched in distress as George Bush won the U.S. presidential election in 2000, according to extracts of her autobiography published Wednesday.
They're the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Vladimir Putin and George Bush ushered in a short-lived era of cooperation between Russia and the United States, which had been firm adversaries for most of the 20th century.
The last time the British pound was worth more than $2, the elder George Bush was waging a losing U.S. presidential campaign against Bill Clinton and the Eurotunnel linking Britain to Europe was still under construction.
They're separated by more than 20 years, they come from opposing political parties, and one evicted the other from the White House. But Bill Clinton and George Bush act like a team, a pair of touring comedians with a well-honed act.
The most riveting moment of Barbra Streisand's Madison Square Garden concert was one of the only unscripted ones. Streisand endured jeers as she interjected a political skit into Monday night's show, exchanging zingers with a celebrity impersonator playing George Bush as a bumbling idiot.
The Bush administration proposed easing environmental rules Friday to allow oil refineries and other industries to change how they calculate whether they need pollution control equipment.
No one in the Bush administration has been stripped of security clearances over the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to reporters three years ago.
Applauding newly warming U.S.-India relations, President Bush said Friday Americans should not respond to this nation's exploding economy by closing itself off to global trade.
Mid-November and President Obama has passed a milestone that virtually all presidents reach at some point – a below 50% approval rating.
Karl Rove memoir coming in MarchRove, the mastermind of George W. Bush's two successful presidential runs and a top White House aide, signed in 2007 with Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon Schuster that has published best sellers by commentators Glenn Beck and Mark Levin.
Israel's Role In Destabilizing PakistanWhen waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.
What Were Republicans Smoking? After the Disastrous Bush Presidency the GOP Had the Option to go Crazy, or Rethink. Guess Which one They ChoseBy the time the make-believe cowboy retired not to Photo-Op Ranch, but to the Dallas suburbs, his approval ratings hovered in the mid-20s. That they were so high testified to GOP team spirit. But what on earth were Republicans smoking?
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. isIt's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
Bill Clinton v George W Bush SmackdownFormer Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are scheduled to appear on the same stage at the "Minds That Move The World" series at Radio City Music Hall on February 25, 2010. Air America has obtained an exclusive preview from the upcoming event.
New movie to seek prosecution of George W. BushThe author of a book calling for the prosecution of former President George W. Bush for murder has produced a documentary based on the book that will debut in February 2010.
Obamas war on fox is liberalisms war on dissentDavid Limbaugh presents the case regarding the hypocrisy of the left wing media and the liberals in general...
Republican Party Approval Rating at End-of-Bush-Era Low -- Daily IntelAccording to a CNN Opinion Research Poll, public approval of the Republican Party this month is at 36 percent, the lowest it's been since the summer of 2007, right at the tail end of George Bush's second term in office. That's a 5 percent drop from the last poll, over the summer.
Holder to Review Bush Policy on DNA Test Waivers in Guilty PleasAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has ordered a review of a little-known Bush administration policy requiring some defendants to waive their right to DNA testing even though that right is guaranteed in a landmark federal law, officials said.
Nah, it's not a GOP network: FOX News Asks If This 'Is Now The Bush Recovery'Two articles: Cavuto Asks If This 'Is Now The Bush Recovery' The opening segment of yesterday’s Your World (10/15/09) focused on the Dow reaching 10,000.
Sean Hannity on Nobel Peace Prize: "Frankly, I would've given it to George Bush."HANNITY: [Yasser Arafat] got the Nobel peace prize. Excuse me, a terrorist got the Nobel peace prize. Some people deservedly so. You know who else deserved it? Ronald Reagan. And frankly, I would've given it to George Bush.
It's not easy not being BushIt's already a truism that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for being not-George W. Bush. This talking point gets repeated as if it's a witty put down. It's supposed to trivialize the win. The implication is that Obama won just for showing up.
From the outset, I concede that I was a surprised as anyone else including YOU and President Obama.
In a Surprise, Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ... Just 9 months into his TermPresident Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear prolifer …
"But what does conservatism stand for today, other than opposition to President Obama?"The Cato Institute's David Boaz had a great op-ed in yesterday's Washington Examiner with a little advice for today's floundering conservative movement:
In a press release today, Birther officials released the following statement:
Got this joke yesterday and just had to share it with you. What a cracker! :o) This joke is about an Indian boy on his first day at school in the USA.
Book Review: 'The Year That Changed the World' by Michael Meyer - washingtonpost.comThe good historian is a myth buster. Michael Meyer is a very good historian. As Newsweek's bureau chief for Eastern Europe in 1989, he watched the world turn on a dime.
Barack Obama is an accessory after the fact to war crimes by torture non-prosecutionsBy not prosecuting the torturers and those who ordered the torture, and now by not even going public with the photo tortures he'd already agreed to release, Obama is an accessory after the fact of torture war crimes
More Professional Interrogators Come Down in Favor of Investigations on TortureIt has been widely reported that in the coming days Attorney General Eric Holder will likely appoint a prosecutor to investigate potential crimes of torture and cruelty used on detainees in U.S. custody.
The Modern World Comic - Bush Critics vs Obama CriticsIt may not be fair to compare folks with such broad brush strokes, but I will limit my assesrtion to pundits or critics specifically. When I watched the news pundits during the Bush administration and then the Obama administration, this comic is how it looks to me.
We're pumping out CO2 to the point of no return. It's time to alter courseScientists now say peak temperatures will not fall back. Join me in taking the 10:10 pledge - it's the best shot we've got left...
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