George H. W. Bush

Diane Ravitch Calls Herself A Voice For Teachers, In A Cruel Reform Movement

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 01.25.2012 | Education

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Degree, Career and Technical Education, Education, College, Diane Ravitch, George H. W. Bush, Schools, Teachers, Teach for America, Vocational Education, Dropouts, Interns, Education News

By: Robyn Gee Professor Diane Ravitch is a big voice in education policy and a huge critic of No Child Left Behind. Yet, as former Assistant Secreta...

Read Post

Never Go Naked To A Knife Fight

Christopher Lamb | Posted 01.12.2012 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, John McCain, 2012 Elections, George W. Bush, Elections 2012, South Carolina Primary, South Carolina Primary Election 2012, James Louis Petigru, Offthebus, Lee Atwater, offthebus2012, Bob Dole, Gov. Mitt Romney, George H. W. Bush, South Carolina Politics, Attack Ads, Republican Attack Ads, Strom Thurmond, Politics News

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who just won the New Hampshire primary, needs to keep in mind what happened to McCain in South Carolina or else he will find himself dazed and confused, and talking out of both sides of his mouth. Again.

Read Post

Peter Terpeluk, Republican Titan, Man of Joy

David Paul | Posted 10.30.2011 | Politics

Read More: George W Bush, George H. W. Bush, Rick Perry, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party, Peter Terpeluk, Politics News

If Rick Perry has a weak spot, it is not intelligence -- the great Democrat blind spot -- but his apparent meanness. Not meanness of policy, but of attitude. America does not vote mean. Or if it does, that is when it will be time to fear for our nation.

Read Post

New Bush Baby Name Cracks Us Up

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 10.19.2011 | Style

Read More: George H. W. Bush, Lauren Bush, Bush, Poll, Bush Family, Georgia H. W. Bush, Style News

It seemed like an inarguable fact that Lauren Bush Lauren, David Lauren's bride-to-be, would have the silliest name in the Bush family. But we were...

Read Whole Story

Romney and the Decline of the Tea Party

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Tea Party, Chris Christie, Osama Bin Laden, Ron Paul, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, 2012 Republican Primary, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, 2012 Election, Herman Cain, Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, George H. W. Bush, Politics News

Should Mitt Romney, as is increasingly likely, win the GOP presidential nomination, it will be a severe defeat for the Tea Party faction of the party.

Read Post

I'm In, but Without Any Enthusiasm

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.05.2011 | Politics

While the good news for Democrats is that Obama may be in a relatively strong position to get reelected, the bad news for progressives is he is now clearly just another Democrat with little real ability to inspire or bring about real change.

Read Post

Money, Money, Money: Plays Tackle The Economic Crisis

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Wall Street, Economics, Money, Gold Diggers, Economy, Ronald Reagan, Theater, Plays, Musicals, Music, Presidents, Inside Job, Film, Arts News

During the 1992 Presidential election, Bill Clinton's campaign team hit on a slogan that was easy to pronounce and just as easy for people to understa...

Read Post

Charlie Sheen's Rant: Maybe it's Time to Stop Channeling Mel Gibson

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Mark Udall, Charlie Sheen, Islam, Yom Kippur, Richard Zanuck, Martin Sheen, George W. Bush, Liza Minnelli, Two and a Half Men, Jane Fonda, Cbs, Emmy Awards, Beau Bridges, Edward Kennedy, Jeff Bridges, Tom Udall, Television, Chuck Lorre, Muslims, Mel Gibson, Michael Russnow, Donald Trump, Anti-Semitism, Christianity, George H. W. Bush, Ram Productions, Terrorism, Emilio Estevez, Judaism, Kennedys, Vietnam War, Drug Problems, Addiction and Recovery, Germany, Cologne Germany, Religious Tolerance, Entertainment News

Heretofore, I have never been a Charlie Sheen fan nor have I disliked him. I've been disappointed as have many others with his apparent shallow lifes...

Read Post

Simon Johnson: Tax Cut Package Is Voodoo Economics Revisited

Project Syndicate | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts, George H. W. Bush, Major Tax Cuts, Voodoo Economics, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Bush Tax Cuts, Business News

WASHINGTON, DC - Democratic and Republican leaders in Washington are suddenly falling over themselves to agree on the need for major tax cuts - affect...

Read Whole Story

Unauthorized, But Not Untrue

Kitty Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Robert Caro, Oprah Winfrey, Harrison Salibury, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, William Manchester, Kitty Kelley, George H. W. Bush, Frank Sinatra, Seymour Hersh, Nancy Reagan, Kai Bird, Books News

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. The authorized b...

Read Post

George H. W. Bush Reveals Who He Thinks Would Make 'Very Good' President

The Huffington Post | Nick WIng | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Bush, 2012 Presidential Election, 2012 Elections, George H.W. Bush, Bush, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney President, George h.w. Bush Romney, George h.w. Bush Mitt Romney, Politics News

Former President George H.W. Bush appeared to give an early presidential endorsement to Mitt Romney Monday, when he told CNN's Larry King in an interv...

Read Whole Story

Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive Towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Egypt, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Democracy Agenda, Somalia, Over the Horizon, George W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, Lebanon, Iraq, Realism, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kurds, Jordan, Bill Clinton, Saudi QArabia, Turkey, Sunnis, Yemen, Palestine, Hamas, Barack Obama, Offshore Balancing, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Shiites, Neoconservatives, Israel, Hizbollah, Taliban, George H. W. Bush, Afghanistan, Islamofascism, World News

President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years

Read Post

The Non-Bush Doctrine: Still Waiting for Obama's

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: War on Terrorism, Freedom Agenda, Saddam, Preemption, Iraq, Bush Unilateralism, Noriega, Pax Americana, Soviet Union, Cold War, Obama Doctrine, Containment, Clinton, Bush Doctrine, Afghanistan, George H. W. Bush, Milosevic, World News

That the Obama Doctrine and the foreign policy that the president has been pursuing are closer in terms of substance and approach to those advanced by Bush I and Clinton may sound like very good news.

Read Post

No Tea Parties for "Bibi"

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arrival in Washington shortly after President Barack Obama's victory on health care reform had both symbolic significance and practical implications for the Likud leader.

Read Post

We've Finally Got Health Care, Hallelujah: All the GOP Can Conjure Is the Bogeyman!

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Gop, House of Representatives, Willy Horton, George W. Bush, Iraq, Michael Dukakis, Cbs, Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, John Boener, Bart Stupak, Abc, Bill Clinton, Nbc, Twitter, 1998 Impeachment, Ram Productions International, Facebook, Democrats, Barack Obama, Jean Schmidt, Cnn, Michael Russnow, Health Care, Youtube, Wash Post, New York Times, Baby Killer, Jeanne Schmidt, George H. W. Bush, Afghanistan, Elmer Gantry, Wolf Blitzer, Billionaires, Banks, Ceos, Personal Finance, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Bogeyman, Economy, Gay Rights, Randy Neugebauer, Politics News

Why is it that Americans only see Republicans' true colors when their results are catastrophic, as in the case of the unending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial crises of the last couple of years?

Read Post

The Corporatist Explanation for Obama's "Failed" Presidency

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Interest Groups, Civil Liberties, Mass Society, Bill of Rights, Populism, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Globalization, Immigration, Tea Party Movement, Contract With America, Sarah Palin, Fascism, Climate Change, Neoliberalism, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Health Care, Global Warming, Totalitarianism, Energy, Scott Brown, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Authoritarianism, Economic Crisis, Terrorism, Campaign Finance, Newt Gingrich, Nafta, Barack Obama, War on Terror, Financial Regulation, Wall Street, Liberalism, Health Care Reform, Stanley McChrystal, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Afghanistan, Special Interests, Massachusetts Special Election, Torture, Politics News

Obama, more than Al Gore, George W. Bush, John McCain, or Hillary Clinton, has been the most fully realized CONSENSUS CORPORATIST CANDIDATE of the las...

Read Post

Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads"

The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Gorbachev George H. W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bush Reagan Extreme, Ronald Reagan, Gop, Bush Reagan Comment, Bush Gop Supporters Blockheads, President Bush, Republicans, Gop Supporters Blockheads, Politics News

On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mik...

Read Whole Story

Who's the CML Champ, Cheney or Gonzales?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Elliot Richardson, Council on Foreign Relations, Politically-Motivated Firings, Bobby Kennedy, Senate Judiciary Committee, Janet Reno, Halliburton, Valerie Plame, FBI Report, Dick Cheney, Perjury, John Ashcroft, Liz Cheney, u.s. Attorneys, Fox News, George H. W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, Politics News

Nobody listens to Alberto Gonzales in large part because, putting it charitably, he was not merely an unprincipled attorney general but an uninspired one. Of course, we also tune him out because we can't be sure he's telling the truth.

Read Post

George H. W. Bush Heckled At Pizza Place (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: George Bush Heckled, George H. W. Bush, Video, George h.w. Bush Heckled, George Bush, George H. W. Bush Heckled, Politics News

When he ran into George H. W. Bush at a pizza place, one man decided to give the former president a piece of his mind. The man called Bush a "murder...

Read Whole Story

George H.W. Bush Questions Iran Election Results

The Washington Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, Iran Elections, George H. W. Bush, George Bush Senior, Politics News

The 41st president said Monday that the official results of Iran's election claiming a landslide victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were fishy....

Read Whole Story

Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

Read Post

New Year, New Administration, More Clemency

Jason Flom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Bush, George Bush, Drug Sentencing, Grammys, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Music, Ben Taylor, Unfair Sentencing, The Beatles, Whitney Houston, George H.W. Bush, New Jersey, The Fugees, Carly Simon, Jail, Drug Trafficking, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Crime, John Forte, Exeter, Keith Richards, New York City, Elvis Presley, Presidential Pardons, Criminal Justice System, Prison, Beatles, Lava Records, Bush Pardons, Music Industry, Cocaine, Phillips Exeter, Politics News

Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.

Read Post

Bush "Fox News Sunday" Interview: I Refused To "Bail Out" GOP (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Bush, Bush Fox News, Bush Fox News Sunday, Bush Iraq, George Bush, Bush GOP, Bush Bailout, Bush McCain, Politics News

President Bush told Brit Hume on "FOX News Sunday" that he refused to "bail out my political party" by withdrawing troops "during the darkest days of ...

Read Whole Story

Barack Obama and Ernie Shore

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Democratic Congress, Mumbai Attacks, Operation Cast Lead, Jim Hightower, Ernie Shore, George W. Bush, Russia, George H. W. Bush, Franklin Roosevelt, Bernie Madoff, Barack Obama, Politics News

Barack Obama is like a relief pitcher who was brought in to pitch with his team down by about ten runs and is somehow expected to lead them to victory.

Read Post

Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Al Gore, White House, Women's Rights, Sweden, George W. Bush, Sex Trade, Asia, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, South Africa, Angola, Kay Hagan, Dan Quayle, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Nancy Pelosi, Racism, Nigeria, Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of the Treasury, African-American Issues, Latin America, Speaker of the House, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Netherlands, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Secretary of Energy, Condolleezza Rice, Secretary of Agriculture, Janet Napolitano, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Claire McCaskill, Secretary of State, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Arizona, Laura Bush, Gay Rights, Vietnam, Slavery, Sexism, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, Bill Clinton, Islam, John McCain, Africa, Belgium, Secretary of Transportation, Homeland Security, Attorney General, North Carolina, Colombia, Cia Director, Cambodia, Secretary of Interior, Death Penalty, Gay Issues, Politics News

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

Read Post