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Obama's Weak Congress

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, White House, Politics, Intelligence, Bush Administration, Senate, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, President Obama, Bush Legacy, Leon Panetta, Legislation, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, The New Republic, Walter Lippmann, Politics News

I fear a Congress that, while not so much parasitic, is so fearful of being attached to any of Obama's failures that it misses every opportunity to be a part of his successes.

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What To Do With the Enablers?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Cia, Diane Feinstein, Usa Patriot Act, George W. Bush, Enabler, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bernard Madoff, Greenpeace, Dick Cheney, Politics News

We must also work to ensure that the name on the door to the Oval Office isn't the only thing that has changed, and that Mr. Cheney's enablers have, once and for all, left town.

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Holder Torture Investigation Likely

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Policy Investigation, Bush Administration, Torture Policy, Bush Admin Torture Policy, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Contrary to White House wishes, Attorney General Eric Holder may push forward with a criminal investigation into the Bush administr...

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Bashing Bush Still Politically Potent

Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush Bashing, George Bush, Bush Administration, Bush Legach, Democrats, Politics News

Vice-President Joe Biden was standing by Jon Corzine's side when the New Jersey governor kicked off his re-election campaign last month, but it was ha...

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Swagel, Former Assistant Treasury Secretary, Accused Bush Admin. Of Inciting Financial Panic

tinyrevolution.com | Jonathan Schwartz | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Bush Administration, Assistant Treasury Secretary, Treasury Department, Hank Paulson, Phillip Swagel, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Back in March Phillip Swagel, who'd been Assistant Treasury Secretary under Hank Paulson, wrote a long article about the TARP bailout called "The Fina...

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Alberto Gonzales To Teach At Texas Tech

AP | Posted 08.07.2009 | 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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Green News Report - July 2, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Exxon Mobil, Epa, Green News Report, Exxon Valdez, Bush Administration, Waxman-Markey, California Emissions Standards, Green News, Environment, Fox News, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Food Recall, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, Forests, Republicans, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California wins one for a change; Where's the beef? Recalled!; Did EPA suppress study from global warming skeptic?... PLUS:...

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John Bolton Wants Israel to Attack Iran

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Iran, John Bolton, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Politics News

Add Iran to the long list of places Bolton would love to attack.

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Judge Overturns Bush Administration Logging Rule

AP | JEFF BARNARD | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Logging, Bush Administration, Logging Rules, Owls, Northern Spotted Owl, Green News

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from...

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Obama Falsely Shouts Fire

Martin Garbus | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Free Speech, Shouting Fire, Guantanamo, Hbo Films, Hbo, Politics News

Obama's campaign promise was for a transparent government, yet this past Friday his administration announced major events he hoped the public would not see.

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Free Bernie Madoff

Bob Edgar | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Common Cause, Bernie Madoff, Barack Obama, Bob Edgar, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

What if, instead of sentencing Bernie Madoff today to spend the rest of his life in prison, a judge decided that we should let the criminal mastermind "move forward" and enjoy his golden years?

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The Food & Drug Administration: Broken, Now Break It Up!

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Politics of Food, Melamine, Homeland Security, Food Crisis, President Obama, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Mercury, Food Safety, Food, Fda, Peanut Butter Recall, Margaret Hamburg, Politics News

The FDA seems to have never heard of the precautionary principle and, in service to the interests of a few chemical companies like Monsanto, put the entire eating public at risk.

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Obama Must Live Up to Campaign Pledge on Vieques Cleanup

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead, Lisa Jackson, Napalm, Vieques Puerto Rico, Alan Grayson, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, Mercury Poisoning, Justice Department, Depleted Uranium, Eric Holder, Arsenic, Asbestos in Libby Montana, Bush Administration, Contamination, Sovereign Immunity, US Navy, Green News

President Obama should instruct all relevant federal agencies to live up to his stated commitment to address the health crisis in Vieques immediately, pursue an "environmentally acceptable" clean-up for Vieques, and work toward a fair and complete resolution to the ongoing litigation.

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Where Are They Now?

Nick Turse | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, Tom Ridge, Scott Mcclellan, Andrew Card, Michael Mukasey, Donald Rumsfeld, Ari Fleischer, John Yoo, Dick Cheney, Michael Chertoff, Bush Administration, Harriet Miers, Tommy Thompson, Henry Paulson, John Ashcroft, Karen Hughes, Alberto Gonzales, Politics News

While times are tough for most Americans, one group is doing remarkably well. For former members of the Bush administration, the economic outlook remains bright and jobs are seemingly plentiful.

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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

Denis Campbell | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Edward Fitzgerald, EU Court of HUman Rights, Nasa, Natwest 3, UK Extradition Act, David Blunkett, Sting, Ed Gibson, David GIlmour, Clark McClelland, Cyber Terrorism, Mark Haddon, Kevin Anderson, Gary McKinnon, Csn, Graham Nash, Pentagon, Dustin Hoffman, Aspergers-Syndrome, Dan Ackroyd, Peter Howson, The Guardian, UK House of Lords, Microsoft, Kaim Todner, The Rest of the Story, Rain Man, Federal Prosecutors, 7-7 Tube Bombings, Bush Administration, Karen Todner, Paul Harvey, War Games, Home Secretary, Scott Christie, Pink Floyd, UFO Obsession, Janis Sharp, Qc, World News

In many ways Gary's disease reveals an intellectually and emotionally na�ve child locked in a man's body. There his mind is both his biggest friend and greatest enemy.

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150 Children Sue Obama Administration Over Parents' Deportation

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Miami, Immigrants, Deportation, Citizenship, Immigration Suit, Deportation Duit, Bush Administration, Obama Administration, Politics News

MIAMI — Ronald Soza celebrated his 10th birthday Wednesday with cake and a serenade by more than 100 other children and their parents. His own ...

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Judge Rules Terrorist Can Sue Bush Admin Lawyer Over Torture Memos

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Memos, Bush Administration, John Yoo, Torture, Jose Padilla, Politics News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged t...

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John Yoo Ordered To Testify

New York Times | JOHN SCHWARTZ | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Bush Lawyers, Bush Administration, John Yoo Memos, Torture Memos, Interrogation Memos, John Yoo, Home News

A federal judge has ruled that John Yoo, a former Bush administration lawyer who wrote crucial memorandums justifying harsh interrogation techniques, ...

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House Republicans Draw Energy Platforms From Bush's Approach

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy Investment, House GOP, Bush Administration, Gop Energy, Bush Energy, George W Bush, Politics News

The House Republicans' new energy bill, a summary of which was put online on Wednesday, is designed to position the party as forward-looking on one of...

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A Preposterous Pre-Digital Primer

Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Journalists, Lps, Montclair Times, George W. Bush, Born-Again Christians, Nixon's Enemies List, Dinosaurs, American Pie, Internets, Commuter Trains, Mashed Potatoes, Albums, Typewriters, The Day the Music Died, E-Mail, Viral, Sony Walkman, President Bush, Ipods, Swine Flu, Revival Theaters, Computers, Paper Airplanes, Cds, DVD Players, Don McLean, Laptops, Prehistoric, President Nixon, Going Viral, Bush Administration, Mel Gibson, Digital Age, Internet, Enemies List, Phonograph Records, Cell Phones, The Passion of the Christ, Huffington Post, Comedy News

In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.

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America's Sorry Policy

John Feffer | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Apologies, Cairo, Afghanistan, Farah, Bush Administration, Obama Mideast Trip, World News

Don't hold your breath waiting for a mea culpa from the 43rd president. Instead, it's left to Barack Obama to come to terms with the Bush legacy.

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The US War on Yugoslavia: Ten Years Later

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Serbia, Bill Clinton, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Slobodan Milosovic, Nato, Ibrahim Rugova, Bush Administration, Obama, Osce, 1973 War Powers Act, Rambouillet, Kla, World News

For many Democrats, the 1999 U.S-led war in Yugoslavia was a "good" war, in contrast to the "bad" war in Iraq. But it was still an unnecessary and illegal war, with political consequences that are far from settled.

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Death at Guantanamo Hovers Over Obama's Middle East Visit

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.

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Cheney, Selling Cheney

Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney and Obama Administration, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Cheney and Torture, Cheney Book Deal, Richard Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Cheney and Interrogation, Dick Cheney, Obama Administration, Cheney Memoirs, Politics News

You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?

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Why No Investigation?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Torture Photos, Antonio Taguba, Torture, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Why are the Congressional leadership of both parties bizarrely silent now, when the American people are demanding an investigation and prosecution of the crimes represented in the abuse photos?

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