It appears my post yesterday got the teabaggers all riled up.
This is what a president does. US President Barack Obama has paid his respects to 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, the first time he has honoured the fallen in this way. NPR notes that,
Next Monday, George W. Bush will begin his career as a motivational speaker, because he is obviously a very motivational man who is quite good at public speaking.
It'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.
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, who served in the Justice Department under Reagan and H.W.
I woke up this morning and saw that "Obama scraps Bush-era Europe missile shield." First thoughts....brilliant decision. Second thought....it reminded me of this brilliant West Wing scene.
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In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%.
As in his rhetorically brilliant national-security speech yesterday claiming to have undone Bush's moral travesties, the military commissions flip-flop is accompanied by the usual Obama three-step: (a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes, (c) ado …
I saw on one of the news channels today that putting the Polar Bears on the Endangered Species list was ineffective in protecting them from the global warming which is melting the artic ice because if the causative action happened outside the arctic, the law did not cover it.
One of the oldest traditions in Washington has the President of the Unites States throwing the ceremonial first pitch for one the beltway teams (Senators, Orioles, Nationals) on opening day. Somewhere along the lines baseball and politics ended up mixing together.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi was beaten, allegedly tortured, and remains on trial for the crime of hurling a shoe at George W Bush.
"You can never get over how bad these opinions were," said Dellinger, who headed the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in the Clinton administration.
I've seen many presidents come and go, but I've never watched a tableau like the one Tuesday, when four million eyes turned heavenward, following the helicopter's path out of town.
THIS week isn't just about the swearing in of US President-elect Barack Obama – it's also about the swearing out of his predecessor President George W. Bush.
There is one thing for which I will be eternally grateful to Dubya Bush...he made it possible for our nation to elect its first African-American President.
Vice President Cheney may have dozed off during Bush's apparently somniferous farewell speech last night.
Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
To make a comparison between the Newsweek article and NewsVine contributors... please mark your choice and feel free to comment. Code of Honor applies!!! Looks like "YES" wins by a landslide!
A new national poll suggests that three out of four Americans feel President Bush's departure from office is coming not a moment too soon.
it's 3 am in foggy bottom. The Thing That Works On Wall Street is tucking the white girls safely in bed. downstairs, a flibbertijibbet is interviewing the ceo of blackwater security to be his new domestic intelligence czar.
A shoe is an honest choice. Civilized. Convenient. Sends a simple "you're an artless jackass, and everyone knows it" kind of message.
The so-called government of Pakistan, which has no control whatsoever over half its own territory and population, sponsored and encouraged a Kashmiri terror squad known as Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Oliver Stone has proclaimed that his new feature film "W." aims to be an "empathetic" psychological portrait of President Bush. The president's younger brother has a different impression
The McCain campaign was put in an awkward situation Wednesday night when it held a fundraiser across the street from the Ziegfeld Theater. The theater was hosting the New York City premiere of "W.," Oliver Stone's new film about President George W. Bush.