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George W. Bush

Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nobel Prize, Richard Garwin, Nuclear Weapons, Charles Krauthammer, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Union-of-Concerned-Scientists, Ted Postol, Start Treaty, Neoconservatives, Science, United States, Washington Post, Arms Control, Barack Obama, World News
Joe Cirincione

Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.

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Bush Legacy: FP's 5 World Leaders Who Miss George W. Bush

Foreign Policy | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Hugo Chavez, Silvio Berlusconi, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Alvaro Uribe, Benjamin Netanyahu, Lech Kaczynski, Advocacy, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News

Barack Obama might still be overwhelmingly popular around the world, but here are five heads of state who probably wish they could have the old guy ba...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Schwarzenegger, California Economic Crisis, California, California State Government, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Budget Cuts, New York Times Magazine, George W. Bush, Capitol, Sacramento, California Budget Crisis, Mark Leibovich, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The California budget crisis continues to be a showdown between a recalcitrant Executive and a weak-kneed Legislature.

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Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Dhs, Bush, Jeff Sessions, Social Security, Obama Immigration, President Obama, George W. Bush, Immigration, Immigrants, Obama, Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Workers, Politics News

President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...

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Honduras as Warning?

Karen Kwiatkowski | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Honduras, Constitution, George W. Bush, World News
Karen Kwiatkowski

Somewhere in the world a Constitution is being exercised. God forbid it happen in the United States.

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Budget Cuts Cause Cops To Cut W.'s Extra Security

The Dallas Morning News | TANYA EISERER | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Dallas, George Bush, Bush Security, George Bush Dallas, George W. Bush, Politics News

The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former P...

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Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 07.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bishkek, Russia, Islamic Jihadist, Boris Yeltsin, Ussr, Kremlin, Iraq, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Dacha, Ukraine, Kgb, Iran, Chechnya, Nato, Barack Obama, Kyrgyzstan, George W. Bush, Poland, Gazprom, Manas, Moscow, Afghanistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Grozny, John McCain, Dmitri Medvedev, Czech Republic, Fsb, Dick Cheney, World News
William Bradley

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

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MBAs are "a Menace to Society": George Bush and Katherine Weymouth are MBAs

Charles Warner | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard MBA, Katharine Weymouth, Washington Post, Harvard Business School, Business School, George W. Bush, Business News
Charles Warner

As an entitled daughter of a privileged, powerful family, Weymouth, like Bush, did not earn her job on merit, but got it because she is a member of the Luck Sperm Club.

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News
James Denselow

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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Alberto Gonzales To Teach At Texas Tech

AP | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Texas Tech University, Gitmo, Texas, Gonzales, Bush Administration, Justice Department, Attorney General, Justice Department Scandal, Alberto Gonzales, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

LUBBOCK, Texas — Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as U.S. attorney general two years ago, is coming to Texas Tech this fall to teach political sci...

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In Dependence Day 2009

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, American Revolution, US Military, Congress, Social Security, America, Economy, Cheney, George W. Bush, President Obama, Redistribution of Wealth, Obama, Democratic Party, Bush Tax Cuts, Dick Cheney, Deficit, Military, Wealth, Tax Cuts, Enlistment Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Republican Party, Taxes, Credit Crisis, Entitlement, Democrats, Fourth of July, Barack Obama, Iraq War, John Ensign, Federal Budget Deficit, Independence Day, Sarah Palin, Military Recruiting, Iraq, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.

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Bush Takes Oklahoma: Six Standing Ovations For Ex-President

AP | MURRAY EVANS | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oklahoma, Bush Oklahoma, George W. Bush, Politics News

WOODWARD, Okla. — Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in...

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$10,000 for Donated Eggs: A Price for Science

Julie Menin | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eggs, Women, California, Stem Cell Research, New York, George W. Bush, Politics News
Julie Menin

New York has become the first state to allow public money (in this case up to $10,000) to be offered to women who donate their eggs for stem cell re...

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Give Us Your Huddled Masses - But Battered Women Need Not Apply!

William Fisher | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Battered Women, Immigration Asylum, Barack Obama, Domestic Violence, George W. Bush, Guatemala, Politics News
William Fisher

Here's a note for the "to do" list of the Obama Administration's newly appointed Domestic Violence Czar - or Czarina in this case: Battered wives and ...

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Mark Sanford: When Bullsh**ters See Red...

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Infidelity, Mark Sanford, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Elliott Spitzer Prostitution, John Edwards, Mark Goulston, Marriage Infidelity, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

When bullsh**ters see red, their common sense is dead. What is it that Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer AND Bernie Madoff ha...

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Sarah, We Hardly Knew Ye. Some Suggested New Jobs For an Ex-Maverick

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Olympia Snowe, George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Amy Winehouse, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lt Gov. Sean Parnell, Susan Collins, Meg Whitman, Richard Pryor, Gov. Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Christine Todd Whitman, Elizabeth Dole, Carly Fiorina, David Letterman, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Happy Birthday America, from soon-to-be ex-Gov. Sarah Palin. She's given you the ultimate gift.

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Bush's 4th of July Celebration

John Scripsick | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Fourth of July, Independence Day, George W. Bush, Politics News
John Scripsick

It's good to see that Woodward, OK invited George W. Bush to their 4th of July celebration. Some days I feel sorry for this poor lonely man. His dre...

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Which Politicos Scream For Ice Cream? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Silvio Berlusconi Ice Cream, Sasha Obama Ice Cream, Tony Blair, Cindy McCain, George W. Bush, Dessert, Sarah Palin, Madeleine Albright, George W. Bush Ice Cream, Joe Biden Ice Cream, Hillary Clinton Ice Cream, Bob Dole, Madeleine Albright Ice Cream, Malia Obama Ice Cream, Bill Clinton, Slideshow, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin Ice Cream, Tony Blair Ice Cream, Ice Cream, Sweets, Bob Dole Ice Cream, Joe Biden, Michelle Obama Ice Cream, Sasha Obama, Barack Obama, Malia Obama, Bill Clinton Ice Cream, Silvio Berlusconi, Cindy McCain Ice Cream, Food, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Ice Cream, Style News

Baby, it's hot outside...how are D.C. and the world's finest beating the heat? With ice cream, of course! Whether it's chocolate or vanilla, cones or ...

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Think Again: The Strange Politics of Collusion (and "Dickishness")

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Dana Milbank, George W. Bush, David Gregory, Iran, Washington Post, Media, Nico Pitney, Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Media News
Eric Alterman

Alleged dickishness notwithstanding, the argument between Pitney and Milbank was not nearly as trivial as it might initially appear.

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Fourth of July: A Long Road Ahead, But Reason to Celebrate

Clint Wilder | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Technology, Clean Energy, Fourth of July, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Aces, Green News
Clint Wilder

I like fireworks as much as anyone, but the whole rah-rah America thing always seemed pretty distasteful when Bush and Cheney were running the show.

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The GOP's Palin Food Fight: Why Now?

William Bradley | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Randy Scheuneman, Sarah Palin, Georgia, Bill Kristol, Fox News, Weekly Standard, Mikhail Saakashvili, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Politics News
William Bradley

This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.

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Betraying the Idea of America

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barak Obama, President Obama, Oval Office, Honor, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Fourth of July, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

This shabby performance is all the more dismaying because abandoning the Bush/Cheney years and all they represent is why Mr. Obama was elected in the first place.

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Saddam And Bush Had Same Position On Geneva Convention:

Michaelmoore.com | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gulf War, Saddam Hussein Geneva Convention, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein George Bush, George W. Bush Geneva Convention, Iraq Geneva Convention, Politics News

Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations pla...

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Internal GOP Memo Attacks Bush Handling Of Economy

The Plum Line | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Great Bush-Obama Economic Intervention, Bush Economy, Economic Crisis, Bush Economic Crisis, George W. Bush, George Bush Economy, Politics News

An internal GOP memo prepared to brief some House Republicans as part of an ongoing probe into the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal takes direct aim...

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Axis of Evil? Not so Much

James Arthur Ray | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Election, Iran Protests, George W. Bush, Iran Axis of Evil, Axis of Evil, Ethnocentric, Worldcentric, Iran, Egocentric, Barack Obama, Consciousness, World News
James Arthur Ray

President Bush's January 2002 State of the Union Address, where he coined the term "Axis of Evil" to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea, was an attempt to fit entire governments, populations and countries into a catchphrase box. Marketing propaganda at its very best.

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