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Architect of Bush Military Commissions Gets Key Obama Job

The Washington Independent | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics

Read More: William Lietzau, Bush Lietzau, Lietzau Bush, Lietzau Obama, Obama Lietzau, George W. Bush, Lietzau Terrorism, National Security Council, Detainees, Lietzau, Politics News

A key behind-the-scenes architect of the Bush administration's first version of the military commissions for terrorism suspects -- which the Supreme C...

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Eight Years In, Afghanistan Strategy Still Unclear

Politics Daily | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics

Read More: State of the Union, Afghanistan Eight Years, Military, Barack Obama, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, U.S. Troops, Hamid Karzai, Politics News

Casting about in late 2001 for someone or something to replace the vanquished Taliban, President George W. Bush helped select Hamid Karzai, an Afghan ...

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Chilcot Inquiry: UK's Iraq Inquiry Turns Focus To Bush Officials

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 02.09.2010 | World

Read More: Tony Blair Iraq, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Britain Iraq Inquiry, Chilcot Inquiry, George W. Bush, Bush Iraq, Chilcot Iraq Inquiry, Alastair Campbell Iraq Inquiry, Iraq, World News

LONDON — Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war will seek meetings with former members of the Bush administration after taking evidence from Tony B...

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The Wasilla Wonder Wows Tea Baggers with Lies and Deception

Andy Ostroy | Posted 02.08.2010 | Politics

Read More: Scott Brown, Gop, President Obama, Doug Hoffman, Tea Bag Convention, Bill Owens, Jim Tedisco, George W. Bush, 9/11, Democrats, Sarah Palin, John Garamendi, Terry Mills, Rudy Giuliani, David Harmer, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Tea Bag Party, Josh Thurson, Scott Murphy, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

And here's one for the hypocrisy file: In talking about the Tea Bag movement's leadership needs, Palin took a cheap shot at Obama's presentation skills while she had written crib notes to herself on her hand.

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Sarah Palin: Why We Can't Look Away

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Tea Party Nation, Politics News
Joan E. Dowlin

Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin is entertaining.

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Sarah Palin Spikes the Tea

Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.08.2010 | Living

Read More: Tea Party, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Living News
Deepak Chopra

Palin's complaint about the Christmas bomber "lawyering up" wasn't about finding the right policy against terrorists. It was a come-on to the Tea Party's prejudices, egging them to believe that he deserved a dose of good old fashioned torture.

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Rate of job loss, Bush v Obama (fact checked)

Craig Newmark | Posted 02.07.2010 | Politics

Read More: Jobs, George W Bush, Economy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Craig Newmark

UPDATE: just got factchecked, report and raw data (Courtesy of howardweaver)  ...

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Is George W. Bush Pro-Life?

John Gehring | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Abortion, George W. Bush, Obama Abortion, Bush Abortion, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, Catholic, Legatus, Politics News
John Gehring

Former President George W. Bush receives a pro-life award this weekend from Legatus, an organization of Catholic business professionals. The honor raises an essential question: What does it mean to be pro-life?

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Obama's State of the Union: Little Focus on the World Beyond Our Borders

Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.05.2010 | World

Read More: Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, George W. Bush, Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, Obama, Iran, Defense Spending, State of the Union, Foreign Policy, World News
Stephen Zunes

The problems with the Obama administration's foreign policy are not nearly as egregious as those of its predecessor. But U.S. citizens must continue to push the administration to pursue a more rational and more ethical global agenda.

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Obama: Way Ahead Of Bush On Stemming Job Losses

The Business Insider | Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: Obama Job Market, Obama Unemployment, Bush Jobs, Bush Unemployment, Obama Jobs Numbers, Obama Unemployment Rate, Obama Job Creation, Obama Jobs, Barack Obama, George. W. Bush, Job Creation, Politics News

Numbers don't lie, do they? In the last year of the Bush administration, the monthly job loss numbers built steadily to a peak which then began to re...

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DIA Discrimination, Corruption Alleged In Lawsuit

KDVR | Jon Bowman | Posted 02.05.2010 | Denver

Read More: City of Denver, Anne Sulton, Discrimination, Denver International Airport, Dia, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Denver News

DENVER - Yet another civil rights and discrimination suit is set to be filed against the city of Denver and Denver International Airport. Over the pas...

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Why the Tea Party Movement Opposes a Man Who Cut Taxes On 95% of Tax Payers

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Karl Rove, Dick Armey, Tom Delay, George W. Bush, President Obama, Obama, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Lee Atwater, Tea Party Nation, Sarah Palin, Protest, Tea Party National Convention, Club for Growth, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party, White Voters, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

Neglected in all the fevered conversation around the Tea Party movement's meteoric rise is any useful reflection on what the cause and this figurehead stand for: white racial resentment.

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Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.03.2010 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

After taking a look at Obama's numbers for the month, we continue our march backwards through history, this month serving up a comparison between Obama and Richard Nixon's term-and-a-half.

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End the Filibuster and Pass a Lot of Stuff

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Treasury Department, Gop, President Obama, Washington, George W. Bush, Obama's State of the Union, Standard & Poor's, Federal Reserve, Obama Administration, Beltway, Democratic Party, Goldman Sachs, President Obama's State of the Union, Timothy Geithner, Colbert Report, Republican Party, Pundits, Stimulus Package, Moody's, Republican Obstructionism, Foreclosure Crisis, Time Magazine, President Barack Obama, Filibuster, Housing Bubble, Stephen Colbert, Democrats, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Ben Bernanke, Republicans, Lyndon Johnson, Progressive Politics, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Harry Reid is getting rolled by a pugnacious Republican minority so bereft of ideas it has no choice but to filibuster every piece of legislation the Democrats put on the table.

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Michael Brown, Former FEMA Director, Hosting His Own Radio Show

Posted 02.03.2010 | Denver

Read More: Talk Radio, Michael Brown, Fema, Koa, George W. Bush, Kdvi, Hurricane Katrina, Denver News

Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown, best known for botching the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, can now be ...

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Big Mistake to Mock GOP's Kooks, Cranks and Bigots

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.03.2010 | Home

Read More: White Males Politics, Daily Kos Poll, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, White Male Voters, President Obama, Obama Socialist Smear, Gop, Daily Kos Obama, Daily Kos, Republicans, Home News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Daily Kos Research 2000 survey that found a majority or a significant percent of Republicans think president Obama is a Red, foreigner masquerad...

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Obama Throws Some Elbows

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.02.2010 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Barack Obama, Republicans, U.S. Economy, Wall Street Bailout, World Trade Organization, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Economy, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Fair Trade, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

Elbows need to be thrown by the President, by lawmakers, and by the public. Given the trajectory of the economy and dependent liberty under GOP rule, another loss will be the end of democracy.

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Multi-Thinking About Iran: Let's be Realist

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 02.03.2010 | World

Read More: Colin Powell, Hungary 1956, Al Kamen, Stephen Walt, George W. Bush, Foreign Policy Magazine, Hamas, Barbara Slavin, China, Barack Obama, Machiavelli, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Realpolitik, Flynt Leverett, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Cfr, Ukraine, Jimmy Carter, Neoconservatives, Orange Revolution, Richard Haass, World News
Leon T. Hadar

As a "card-carrying realist," I find Haass's recommendation to "promote" -- he does not actually call for "doing" -- regime change in Tehran as running contrary to any sensible realist viewpoint.

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Let There Be Light! Obama's Budget Delivers on Energy

Mike Signer | Posted 02.04.2010 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Negawatts, Obama Budget Priorities, Bush Administration, Energy Efficiency, Progressive-Policy-Institute, George W. Bush, Nuclear Energy, Obama Budget, Clean Energy, Barack Obama, Green News
Mike Signer

After years of virtual inaction from the Bush administration on a clean economy, the president's new budget is a politically savvy, substantively brave, and altogether impressive collection of proposals.

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A Crumbling America

Michael Bendetson | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Wayne Klotz, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Michael Bendetson

The United States is falling apart. While China and India have invested billions in their physical infrastructure, America has proved content with the progress made under the Eisenhower Administration.

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Tea Partier Takes Texas Governor's Race By Storm

Jackson Williams | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, James Baker, Gop, Karl Rove, Tea Party, Debra Medina, George W. Bush, Secession, Texas, Rick Perry, Karen Hughes, Prop 13, Republican Party, Kay Bailey Hutchison, California, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Two weeks ago, I wrote that the top Republican candidates for governor of Texas actually lost their nationally televised C-SPAN2 primary debate to a t...

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The British Iraq Inquiry Is Ours Too

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.30.2010 | World

Read More: C-Span, British Iraq Inquiry, UN Resolution 1441, Downing Street Memo, Tony Blair, United Nations, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Colin Powell, UN Charter, Ben Bernanke, Iraq War Inquiry, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

What the United Kingdom is dealing with is the hangover of the crimes of George W. Bush, crimes that have been conveniently swept under the rug on this side of the pond.

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Jason Linkins

Rep. Jeff Flake Sizes Up GOP Future With A 'Blame It On Bush' Lament

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.29.2010 | Politics

Read More: State of the Union, State of the Union 2010, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Jeff Flake, John McCain, Politics News

Republicans get all emo and aggrieved whenever they hear President Barack Obama publicly discuss the set of circumstances he inherited from his predec...

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Bush, Clinton Have A Little Trouble Filming Haiti PSA (VIDEO)

Posted 01.28.2010 | Comedy

Read More: Bill Clinton, Fail, Behind the Scenes, Psa, Haiti, Haiti Aid, George W. Bush, Bush Clinton Haiti Fail, Funny Videos, Bush Clinton Psa, Bush Clinton Psa Outtakes, Comedy News

Dutch comedian Joezjny definitely knows the way to Americans' hearts: Showing ol' Dubya flubbing his lines. With some skillful editing, Joezjny shows ...

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The Real State of the Union

Anis Shivani | Posted 01.27.2010 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Terrorism, Economic Crisis, Detention, Terrorism, Economy, George W. Bush, Globalization, Immigration, Obama, State of the Union Address, Foreign Policy, Middle-Class, Health Care Reform, Banks, Obama State of the Union, Security, State of the Union, Torture, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Citizens, the state of the union couldn't be any worse. In the last 20 years, we've managed to squander the prosperity, moral credibility, and the international legitimacy we won after the demise of the Soviet Union.

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