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From JFK to Obama Without Malaise

Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Carter, Monica Lewinsky, Bush, Kennedy, Malaise, Impeachment, Clinton, Nixon, Obama, Starr, Ford, Politics News

Since the economy has melted, like Bush, Obama will be pelted, unless he rids us of malaise, for which he may have means and ways.

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Republicans Have the Principled Backbone of an Invertebrate

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Obama, Nomination Hearing, Bush, Roberts, Alito, Stotomayor, Politics News

Conservatives feign to stand on principle when in fact political expediency is the only driving force. This becomes evident by the inversion of their principled positions when a Democrat takes office.

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Pat Leahy, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Obama, Eric Holder, President, Bush, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Drip Drip Drip, Assassination, Detainee Abuse, Briefed, Panetta, Brief, Attorney General, Warrantless Wiretapping, Congress, Justice Department, Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Investigation, Detainee, Saturday Night Massacre, Briefing, Prisoner, Vice-President, Chris Weigant, Wiretapping, I Was Only Following Orders, Leahy, Waterboarding, Hit Squad, Water Torture, Nixon, Torture, Politics News

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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War by Other Means

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Mission in Iraq, Middle East, Saddam, Mission Accomplished, Oil, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Democracy, Israel, Bush, Politics News

What we lack as a species is a moral-spiritual force for healing that is the equivalent of any of the great mechanisms of destruction we have developed over the millennia in our obsession with dominance.

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Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | 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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Obama Learns the Bush Maneuver

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Mark Sanford, Obama, Unemployment, Cheney, Bush, John Boehner, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

The Democratic response to criticism was lifted directly from the Bush playbook. They are saying that without the stimulus things would be much worse.

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Reading The Pictures: Obama-Putin Not in Love!

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Herbert, 10 Downing Street, Obama Putin, Moscow, Russia, Slovenia, Pickup, Obama, Blair, Dacha, Crawford, Brdo Castle, ALEXEY DRUZHININ, Fantasy, Putin, Bush, Politics News

This week, we had the opportunity to contrast Bush and Obama in terms of a first encounter with Putin.

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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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Sarah Palin, Preparing to Run

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kristol, Sweat, President Obama, Photo, Ronald Reagan, Flag, Marathon, Naughty Monkey, Grateful Dead, Obama, Mccain, Campaign, Quitter, Sarah Palin, President, Governor, Bush, Republican, 2012, Reagan, 2010, Richard Nixon, Bill Kristol, Tricky Dick, Runner's World, Long Distance Runner, Runner, John McCain, Alaska, Primary, Run, Quitting, Interview, Double Dare, Election, Barack Obama, Nomination, The Dead, Quit, Red Shoes, Draped in a Flag, Iceberg, Chris Weigant, Running, Moose, Presidential Campaign, Palin, Fire on the Mountain, Nixon, Preparing to Run, Volcano, Wading, Politics News

After reading Palin's interview in Runner's World, I doubt she'll be off the political stage anytime soon. A presidential campaign is a long race that requires a lot of endurance.

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The Beginning of the End of the Iraq War?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Troops, President Obama, Timetable, Status of Forces Agreement, Obama, Election, 130000, Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Bush, Iraqi, Elections, Surge, Al-Maliki, Chris Weigant, Sofa, Iraq War, National Sovereignty Day, Iraq, Milestone, Maliki, Cities, Timetable for Withdrawal, World News

If our soldiers are out of Iraqi cities, and the Iraqi security forces start shouldering more and more responsibility as a result, do we really need all 130,000 troops sitting in their bases?

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The Meaning of Treason

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communists, Nazis, Torture, Treason, Hannity, Cheney, 9/11, Rebecca West, Limbaugh, Beck, Bush, Politics News

I first read Rebecca West's Meaning of Treason in the 1990s. At the time I was more interested in the looping grace of West's sentences than in h...

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Power and Protest, in Iran and at Home

Jesse Larner | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Bani-Sadr, Cairo, Bush, Moussavi, Revolution, 1979, Obama, Iran, Tehran, Rafsanjani, Farhang, Ahmadinejad, Election, World News

American conservatives who believe that any resistance to tyranny somehow must carry an American trademark would do well to remind themselves that theocracy is incompatible with liberal democracy.

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A Rebuttal to Krauthammer: "Obama's Moral Response to Iran"

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: Reagan, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama, Vietnam, Krauthammer, Bush, World News

I believe that US history shows that our intentions have not always been honorable and we have been looking out for our own self interests which are often based on greed and fear.

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Obama Gives Bush a 3rd Term in Education

Diane Ravitch | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Obama, Education, Schools, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Bush, Education Policy, Politics News

Let me say it again: It is time to kill the Bush-era No Child Left Behind program. If judged solely by test scores, the only coin that the NCLB crowd understands, the law has been a dud.

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The Good Reverend Jeremiah Wright and "Them Jews"

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Von Brunn Holocaust Museum, Israeli Settlements, White House, Bush, Clinton, Civil Rights, Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Jews. Blacks, Politics News

There were two things wrong with the good Reverend Jeremiah Wrights's grouse that "them Jews are keeping me from Obama." One was that he said it. The other is that he meant it.

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A Republican to Save Us

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Corruption, Law, Geithner, Fdic, Bush, Money, Clinton, Economy, Scheer, Obama, Government, Politics, Bailout, Citibank, Rubin, Sheila Bair, Business News

You probably don't know much about Sheila Bair, but she is looking out for you, and that is why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.

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A Question for Dick Cheney: Should We Now Waterboard Tiller's Murderer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh, Ticking Time Bomb, Abortion Doctor, Cheney, Violence, Journalist, Late Term Abortion, Scott Roeder, Media, Journalism, Dick Cheney, Bush, George Tiller, Threat, Elf, Liz Cheney, Domestic Terrorism, Earth Liberation Front, Enhanced Interrogation, Abortion, Tiller, Abortion Clinic, Technique, Terrorism, Terrorist, Dr. Tiller, Murder, Chris Weigant, Waterboarding, Roeder, Domestic Terrorist, Torture, Mcveigh, Politics News

Roeder is claiming the now-infamous "ticking time bomb" scenario of what can only be termed domestic terrorism. Doesn't this mean that he should immediately be waterboarded?

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Bush's Excellent Speech in Cairo -- What Might Have Been

Steven Waldman | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Islam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama Cairo Speech, Terrorism, Bush, Obama Mideast Trip, World News

Obama's speech reminds us that 9/11 needn't have led to a conflict between the West and Islam. It's a reminder of the road not taken.

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Israel: Bush Officials Agreed To Settlement Building

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Obama Settlements, Bush, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Israel Bush, Israel Settlements, Obama Israel, World News

JERUSALEM Senior Israeli officials expressed irritation on Wednesday that President Obama had declined to acknowledge what they called clear understa...

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Presidential Library Clash Could Put Bush Under Oath

AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: George W. Bush, Bush, President Bush, Southern Methodist University, Gary Vodicka, Texas, Smu, Bush Presidential Library, Politics News

DALLAS — A Texan is trying to put a former president under oath and find out what he knew and when he knew it. But the issue isn't national secu...

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No Way Around an Investigation in Moving Forward

Morton H. Halperin | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Obama, Bush, Torture Memos, CIA Interrogation, Truth Commission, Torture, Politics News

The American public should hear directly, in open-door hearings, from victims of the detention, rendition, and torture.

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Bush Still Screening Audience Questions

Think Progress | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ex-President-Bush, Bush, Pre-Screening Question, George W. Bush, Politics News

hroughout George W. Bush's presidency, his handlers always made a special effort to ensure his appearances with regular Americans were scripted in suc...

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Colin Powell Should Say Good Riddance to the GOP

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, President Obama, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Michael Steele, Gop, Rush Limbaugh, Iraq, Presidency, Politics News

Powell's well-timed and publicized knock of Cheney, Limbaugh, and hard core party regulars simply further enshrines him as the GOP's odd man out.

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Iraq as a Holy War: Why Praying for Divine Support Is a Bad Idea

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, God, War, Crusades, Christianity, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Prayer, Holy Wars, Bush, Politics News

Nothing could be more hazardous as a basis for international affairs than relying on God for guidance. The past eight years offer evidence for that conclusion.

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Hooray for Emission Curbs

Diane Francis | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Saudis, Gasoline, Mexico, Green, Green News, Oil Prices, Cars, Green Energy, China, Detroit Bailout, Fuel Emissions, Bush, Green News

America finally has a smart leader, not a good old boy from Texas and his sidekick who were in the hip pockets of the Saudis and oil interests at home...

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