The older and wiser I get the more I realize that anything in this world is possible. Anything. So it's no surprise that former President George W. Bu...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
We, as a country, would be a lot (and I mean a lot) better off right now if Cheney and his boss had done some dithering before invading Iraq.
Dave Zirin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
LeBron James told Maxim that he would like to dunk on George W. Bush, a feeble figure on the national scene. Instead, LeBron should bring down the hammer on the heads of the following folk...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The failure of McCain's divisive message to resonate beyond the base should have alerted Republican leaders to the resurgence of the center, but they seemed to have missed this clue.
William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.
The New York Times | Peter Baker | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Before there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless White House chief of staff, there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless House Democratic campaign strategist ...
The Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
A months-long review of documents and interviews with Pentagon personnel has revealed that the Bush Administration's military analyst program -- aimed...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Here's a surprising new tidbit for those wondering how George W. Bush is spending his time these days (besides using his blackberry and penning a memo...
AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver
SALT LAKE CITY — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of Presi...
Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Conservatives -- or "Real Americans" -- are easily threatened, and view those outside their tribe with suspicion. Those outside their tribe don't deserve a lot: especially not the right to vote.
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
A judge in D.C. reluctantly declared a mistrial for Kevin Ring, one of Abramoff's trusted lieutenants. It may be a sign that the reign of honest-services-fraud terror by federal prosecutors is ending.
Maxim | Posted 10.16.2009 | Sports
By 14 he was dunking. By 16 he was facing down reporters. Now the greatest basketball player in the world is 24 years old-and he's just getting starte...
latimes.com | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to...
Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.
Russia Today | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
The case of an Indian student jailed in the U.S. more than three years ago, is being seen as a major test of America's human rights. A jury found Vik...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Here's what you can't argue with - Bush did not try at all in Afghanistan. He didn't give a damn. 26,000 troops -- are you kidding me?
POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
For Republicans looking forward to the first Bush-free election in a decade, the book publishing schedule is the bearer of bad news: Between New Year'...
Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Sons of big name political leaders have been making the news this week from Europe to Africa. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken heat for ...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
It's not like President Obama gave an award to himself. The Nobel committee felt the U.S. president was deserving. And it's their football. In the end, it honors the man. It honors the nation.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
After eight embarrassing years of reckless cowboy arrogance marred by war, war crimes and human rights abuses, Obama's Nobel Prize symbolizes the beginning of the U.S. return to respectability.
David Quigg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chris Campbell | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
I find it maddening how quickly the wolves came out. Similar to any policy move that will actually benefit Americans and our standing in the world, the right-wing goes ballistic.
Dr. Robert Epstein | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
We're witnessing what research psychologists call a "contrast" effect, occurring in a grand way in an unlikely place -- the Nobel Prize Committee.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
Freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else's Humvee. You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don't, you'll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics