Architect of Bush Military Commissions Gets Key Obama Job
A key behind-the-scenes architect of the Bush administration's first version of the military commissions for terrorism suspects -- which the Supreme C...
A key behind-the-scenes architect of the Bush administration's first version of the military commissions for terrorism suspects -- which the Supreme C...
Politics Daily | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics
Casting about in late 2001 for someone or something to replace the vanquished Taliban, President George W. Bush helped select Hamid Karzai, an Afghan ...
AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 02.09.2010 | World
LONDON — Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war will seek meetings with former members of the Bush administration after taking evidence from Tony B...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 02.08.2010 | Politics
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.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics
Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin is entertaining.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.08.2010 | Living
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.
Craig Newmark | Posted 02.07.2010 | Politics
UPDATE: just got factchecked, report and raw data (Courtesy of howardweaver) ...
John Gehring | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
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?
Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.05.2010 | World
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.
The Business Insider | Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
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...
KDVR | Jon Bowman | Posted 02.05.2010 | Denver
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...
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 02.05.2010 | Politics
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.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.03.2010 | Politics
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.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
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.
Posted 02.03.2010 | Denver
Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown, best known for botching the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, can now be ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.03.2010 | Home
The Daily Kos Research 2000 survey that found a majority or a significant percent of Republicans think president Obama is a Red, foreigner masquerad...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.02.2010 | Politics
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.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 02.03.2010 | World
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.
Mike Signer | Posted 02.04.2010 | Green
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.
Michael Bendetson | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics
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.
Jackson Williams | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
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...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.30.2010 | World
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.29.2010 | Politics
Republicans get all emo and aggrieved whenever they hear President Barack Obama publicly discuss the set of circumstances he inherited from his predec...
Posted 01.28.2010 | Comedy
Dutch comedian Joezjny definitely knows the way to Americans' hearts: Showing ol' Dubya flubbing his lines. With some skillful editing, Joezjny shows ...
Anis Shivani | Posted 01.27.2010 | Politics
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.
The Washington Independent | Posted 02.09.2010 | Politics