Bush Administration

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Bush to Take Last Crack at Dismantling Programs for Middle Class Firms

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Bush Administration, Small Business, Fortune 1000, Middle Class Economy, Economy, Middle Class, Procurement, Contracting, Business News

The Bush administration is gearing up to take one last shot at dismantling federal programs designed to assist middle class firms.

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Bush Political Appointees Rushing To Relax Workplace Toxin Rules

Washington Post | Carol D. Leonnig | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Workplace Toxin Regulation, Bush Administration, Green News

Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule ma...

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It's Official -- Bush Has Ruined the Market Value of the Whole Country!

Carl Pope | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, Epa, Green News

The EPA announced that an average American's life is worth $6.9 million today, vs. $8.5 million five years ago. The less a life is worth, the weaker the safety standards warranted to protect it.

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Deregulation Defrauds Americans

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business

For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.

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Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law

Ari Melber | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, George Bush, Netroots, Bush Administration, Netroots Nation, Politics News

Attendees and bloggers at Netroots are disappointed with the emerging, bipartisan consensus in Washington that the lawlessness of the Bush era can largely go unpunished.

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Department of Interior Awarded Over $430 Million in Small Business Contracts to Corporate Giants, According to New Study

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Department of Interior, Bush Administration, Small Business Administration, Small Business, Government Contracting, Procurement, Barack Obama, Economy, Business News

The Bush administration has tried to convince us for 6 years that the diversion of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms is the result of random data entry errors.

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Bush Homeland Security Adviser Blames Reporter For "Cash For Access" Scandal

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Homeland Security, Bush Administration, Bush Library Donations, Bush Library Foundation, Bush Library, Stephen Payne, Bush Library Donors, Politics News

It was the reporter's fault. That's pretty much what Homeland Security adviser and Houston businessman Stephen Payne said. Payne claims he never mea...

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I Kissed a Girl

Marissa Moss | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Bush Administration, Stereotypes, Gay Rights, Mtv, Katy Perry, Lesbian, Madonna, Lesbian Kiss, Gay Marriage, Jill Sobule, Entertainment News

Apparently, the only place you can see a girl kissing another girl on MTV nowadays is on The Real World after six tequila shots in the hot tub. Certainly not in the video called, um, "I Kissed a Girl."

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Times Editorial: Another Heck Of A Job

NY Times | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, 2010 Census, Carlos Gutierrez, Nytimes Editorials, White House Budget Battle, White House Budget Cuts, Bush Administration, Census Bureau, Politics News

Any remaining hope for a modern, efficient and precise census in 2010 has cratered, brought low by managerial incompetence and the administration's re...

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White House Ignored CIA On Guantanamo Detainees' Innocence, New Book Says

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jane Mayer, Cia, Books, Bush Administration, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...

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Our Denier-In-Chief Punts While the World Pants

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Greenhouse Gases, Bush Administration, Global Warming, Climate Change, Farm Workers, California Wildfires, Wildfires, Green News

Is global warming a hazard to your health? Just ask Abdon Felix Garcia, a farm worker in California. Oh, wait! You can't, because he died on Wednesday after working in a vineyard in 108 degree heat.

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Withdrawing from the Empty Rhetoric on Iraq

Adam Blickstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, John McCain, Iraq, Nouri Al-Maliki, Politics News

If the Iraqi government caves to Bush administration demands and agree to vaguer language on American withdrawl, then what message does that send to the Iraqi people?

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Secret US-Iraq "Status of Forces" Agreement Would Preserve Human Rights Violations, Torture Policies in Iraq

Tom Hayden | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Iraq, George Bush, Bush Cheney, Bush Administration, Human Rights Watch, Politics News

At stake for the anti-war movement and the progressive blogosphere is whether the current administration can bind the next president to its current Iraq policies.

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Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency (Parody Video)

Onion News Network | Staff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Tours America, Bush Administration, The Onion News, Bush Presidency, George W. Bush, Video, Politics News

From The Onion News Network: Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency...

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Confronting and Ending the Politics of Humiliation: Part 1, From the Warsaw Ghetto to Guantanamo Bay

Stephen Ducat | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Psychology of Torture, Bush Administration, Politics of Humiliation, Politics News

Those who comprise the current Republican administration are certainly not the first political rulers to deploy humiliation as a psychological weapon against those it perceives as a threat.

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Bush: Dangerous Gitmo Detainees Could Walk US Streets After Supreme Ruling

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Fear Watch 2008, George Bush, Bush Administration, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of las...

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White House Deputy Chief Of Staff Quitting

CNN | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, Bush White House, Bush Administration, Bush Loyalists, White House Staff, Joe Hagin, Politics News

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin will be leaving his job this month, according to White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Perino says Hagin'...

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10 Million Solar Rooftops Proposed By Senator Bernie Sanders, Others

BuzzFlash.com | Amy Weiss | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Arlen Specter, Solar Moratorium, Bush Administration, Solar Roof, Ben Cardin, John Kerry, Robert Menendez, Bernie Sanders, Solar Power, John Warner, Solar Rooftops, Green News

While the Bush administration put a two-year moratorium on solar energy projects on public land last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and colleagues d...

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Unions Battle New Age Robber Barons

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

To succeed now, unions must be able to stand toe-to-toe with global corporations on their own turf, which means in many cases unions too must be global.

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Nipping Solar Energy in the Bud

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Solar Tax Credits, John McCain, Bush Administration, Solar Power, Barack Obama, Republicans, Green News

Many a start-up's hopes were dashed when the Bureau of Land Management, in its infinite wisdom, decided to place a moratorium on the construction of new solar plants on public land in six Western states.

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Advice to Democrats: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Lee Daniels | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Hillary Clinton, General Election, Democrats, Democrat Unity, Barack Obama, Politics News

The issue of whose side are you on is not a matter of Democrat versus Democrat. It's a matter of the Democratic Party against a party whose reign has produced a cesspool of corruption.

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Script Doctors

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Bush Administration, Supreme Court Justices, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Michael Mukasey, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, Torture, Politics News

After the Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees are now entitled to habeas corpus, all the president's men are working overtime so they can stack the deck strongly in favor of winning convictions.

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 5)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy, Military, Bush Administration, Russia, Diplomacy, Cold War, Iaea, Foreign Policy, Politics News

In the conclusion of our series on Jeff Huber, columnist at Military.com and author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, we asked him more questions on f...

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Iran Attack Not a Problem, Say War Wonks

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Persian Gulf, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Weapons, Attack, Bush Administration, Uranium Enrichment, Oil Markets, War, Nuclear Iran, P5=1, Blowback, Politics News

For better or worse, we're constitutionally incapable of summoning up sufficient cynicism to imagine the moral depravity required to start another war.

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Neocons Busy Rewriting History On Iraq

Washington Independent | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush Administration, Revisionist History, War in Iraq, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Politics News

Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian haw...

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