Poor Dick Cheney. It can't be easy being the most unpopular VP ever. Even Ex-Pres Bush seemed to snub him in the end when he didn't pardon Libby. The ...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The $60 million question, though, is where is our outrage that any elected official can break the law, and be arrogant enough to publicly admit it, confident that he will inevitably escape prosecution for his acts.
The Plum Line | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
Do Michael Steele and the Republican National Committee -- the center of the party's political operation -- agree or disagree with Dick Cheney's claim...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
Republicans are arguing about what dishes to set out on the Titanic instead of lowering the life boats.
Randall Amster | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy
Yes folks, that was Dick Cheney, born-again ADA activist and differently-abled former dictator, heading off to an (un)disclosed location for the final time.
Michael Sigman | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and...
Howard Schweber | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Many people asked a version of the following question: "if we don't have prosecutions of Bush officials, what will stop people next time?," often with a reference to the Nixon or Iran-Contra pardons.
Howard Schweber | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics
There are two reasons prosecuting the Bush administration is a bad idea, one that has to do with the nature of the alleged crimes and the other that has to do with the consequences for the country.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
The same media that is creating a negative impression of President Obama is saying little about the outgoing administration's widespread destruction of official government records.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
In an interview with his biographer Stephen Hayes, published by the Weekly Standard, former Vice President Cheney laments Bush's decision not to pardo...
Howard Gewirtz | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Bill Katovsky | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Certainly, we have seen digitally enlarged crowds this size in blockbuster films, but there was an amazing, surreal quality in seeing that many people gathered on the Washington Mall.
Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 02.16.2009 | Style
For Jeb Bush: "They fuck you up, your mum and dad./They may not mean to, but they do./They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you."
Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
Vice President Cheney may have dozed off during Bush's apparently somniferous farewell speech last night. Courtesy of Examiner.com: As Bush said, "B...
ABC News | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
Responding to accusations from a top Pentagon official that at least one Guantanamo detainee was tortured during interrogation, Vice President Dick Ch...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
So, a question for conservatives: did the Clinton administration, like the Bush administration, do a fine job of protecting the country once it had undergone one al-Qaeda attack?
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Help me. I'm confused. Are we supposed to ignore the past, forget finger-pointing and blame-gaming and look forward? Or are we supposed to demand accountability? Or some third option?
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.
Aram Roston | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
Rakhat Aliyev has had many careers. The 47 year old Kazakh former intelligence chief and self-proclaimed opposition leader has been a medical doctor, ...
Jamie Malanowski | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Dear Dr. Rice: This is to confirm that you will be teaching a course at The Learning Annex on Saturday, January 31st, to be entitled "Power Enabling: Smart Women, Costly Blunders.''
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green
Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.
Justin Callaway | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
A proposal: members of Congress must find a family in the "final throes" of foreclosure within their electoral base and switch places with them for the remainder of their luxuriously long winter vacations.
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 01.23.2009 | Media
Alright, what he did was bad. But why is there all this concern over little old Rod Blagojevich while Bush, Cheney, and his cronies still sit in the White House, untouched?
Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 01.23.2009 | Entertainment
Though President Bush adroitly ducked the projectile shoe, his legacy was most assuredly assassinated by a pair of oxfords.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living