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Taylor Branch To Reveal "The Clinton Tapes"

GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King Jr., George Mcgovern, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Whitewater, Taylor Branch, Katherine Graham, Lyndon Johnson, Politics News

It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...

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Thomas Perez Confirmation To Lead DOJ Civil Rights Division Held Up For Six Months

The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Perez, White House, University of Maryland, George W. Bush, Leadership on Civil Rights, President Obama, National Women's Center, Justice-Department-Civil-Rights-Division, Bradley Schlozman, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Naacp, Politics News

For months, the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder have been promising to restore the Justice Department's role in protecting minor...

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Bush Bureau Of Land Management Abused Legal Exceptions To Benefit Big Oil And Gas: GOA

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Nick Rahall, Minerals Management Service, Government Accountability Office, George W. Bush, Denver News

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 rather famously - or infamously, depending on your point of view - allowed for a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for t...

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Cheney Spine Surgery: Former VP In Hospital

AP | Frances Kerry | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Back Surgery, Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Dick Cheney Surgery, Dick Cheney Back Surgery, Surgery, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney underwent elective back surgery Thursday, a procedure his office said "went well." "He is having...

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Scott O'Malia: Obama Appoints Ex-Lobbyist For Enron-Like Company To Top Regulator Position

Mother Jones | David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Public Utilities Commision, Mirant, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Maria Cantwell, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, President Obama, Enron, Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee, Scott O'malia, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Politics News

During his confirmation hearing last year, Scott O'Malia, a Republican Senate aide nominated to be a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Com...

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No-Name Bush Speechwriter's "Tell-All" Magnum Opus Will Save Journalism!

Julie Farby | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Matt Latimer, Mike Huckabee, Tell-All Books, Journalism, George W. Bush, Media, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News

Matt Latimer, a speechwriter for George W. Bush, is giving the nation a much anticipated behind-the-scenes glimpse into the total disintegration of the Bush White House in its final days.

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Dallas National Golf Club Divided Over Bush Membership

WWD | Posted 09.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Bush Playing Golf, George W. Bush Golf Membership, George W. Bush, George W. Bush Dallas National Golf Club, Dallas National Golf Club, Bush Golf Membership, Bush Golf, George W. Bush Golf, Style News

George W. Bush has kept a low profile since his return to Dallas. But the former president is causing a minor flap at the exclusive Dallas National Go...

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Leno Causes Seismic Shift in Delicate Balance Between Husbands and Wives Across America

Ray Hanania | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Remote Controls, Malapropisms, Kanye West, President Barack Obama, Richard J. Daley, George W. Bush, America, Oprah Winfrey, 2016 Olympics, Taylor Swift, Jay Leno, Late Night, Jerry Seinfeld, Chelsea Handler, Husbands and Wives, Richard M. Daley, Chelsea Lately, Entertainment News

For all the pre-publicity, the Jay Leno Show is still the same Jay Leno Show. It just has a different name.

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Vogue, Prada and the Fashion Revolution

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Style

The global economic crisis has hastened the demise of the already toppling fashion establishment.

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School Cancels Trip To See Bush

Fort Worth Star Telegram | Melody McDonald | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlington-Virginia, Cowboys Stadium, Superbowl, Obama School Speech, George W. Bush, President Obama, Politics News

Six days after drawing fire for not showing President Barack Obama's speech to schoolchildren, Arlington Superintendent Jerry McCullough announced Mon...

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Stevens' Clerks Believe He Will Retire Next Spring

Newsweek | Howard Fineman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Paul Stevens, White House, John Paul Stevens Retiring, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, George W. Bush, President Obama, Harold Koh, John Roberts, State Department, Politics News

Less than two weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens made news in a typically elliptical court way. He announced that he had hired only on...

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On Racism, Death Threats and the Blindness of Those Who Will Not See

David Sirota | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

We're living in a world where the behavior of right-wing lynch mobs clearly is far less about ideology, and far more about partisanship and racial hate.

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Poisonous Atmosphere Keeping Obama From Appointing Judges

The New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court. "There was a real conscious decision to us...

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We The Fallen of 9/11

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Nyfd, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Special Forces, George W. Bush, 9/11 Anniversary, Nypd, 9/11, Taliban, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden, World News

One must question at this point, on this day of the year especially, whether the power of the U.S. government, diplomatic and military, has been used in the best way to honor our own fallen of 9/11

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Could We Expect Anything From the Pittsburgh Summit of the G-20?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Never was the G-20 intended to be anything else than a technical forum meeting twice a year. It has no power, no administration, let alone any authority.

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Republican Strategist Backs Miller Over "Disrespectful Partisan Idiot"

The Daily Beast | Mark McKinnon | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Republican Leadership, John McCain, Mark McKinnon, Rush Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Joe Wilson, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Rob Miller, Politics News

Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party--and he's donating $1,00...

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We Are Much More Than a Fiscal Watchdog

Tim Roeper | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Jason Linkins, Barack Obama, Polling, George W. Bush, Social Security, Lewin Group, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Peter G. Peterson, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, Health Care, Fiscal Responsibility, Media News

Jason Linkins got some things wrong about the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and we feel compelled to clear the air.

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Robinson: Obama Should Just Ignore "Spoiled First Graders" In GOP

Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Watergate, Louie Gohmert, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, President Obama, Blue Dogs, Obama Health Care Speech, Bipartisanship, Lyndon Johnson, House Republicans, Eric Cantor, Politics News

Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health-care reform proposals to Congress saw a chief executive making what sounded...

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Republicans Fear "Crackpots" Becoming Face Of Party

POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...

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9/11 + 8: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

William Bradley | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Abdullah Abdullah, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mossad, Iran, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Cairo, Barack Obama, Germany, Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Northern Alliance, Tehran, Iraq, Israel, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Torture, Video, World News

Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.

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8th Anniversary of Sept 11: Do We Understand Them?

Mohamed Elmenshawy | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Arabs, Terrorism, 9/11 Anniversary, George W. Bush, 9/11, Admiral Mike Mullen, 9-11, Muslim, September 11th, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, World News

For the Obama administration to continue its focus only on improving the image of the United States abroad, through the approach of "strategic communication" or "public diplomacy," is to see only half of the picture.

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Ask an Average Conservative Blogger

Edward Murray | Posted 09.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Birthers, Liberal Media, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, Bloggers, George W. Bush, 9/11, Obama, Conservative, Michelle Malkin, Obama Speech, Bush Administration, Tax Cuts, Evolution, Iraq, Health Care, 9/11 Truthers, Comedy News

Average Conservative Blogger responds to readers' questions.

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September 8 and September 11: Joy, Pain, and Hope

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: 9/11, Education, Brooklyn Bridge, New York Skyline, Barack Obama, Children, Buildings, World Trade Center, George W. Bush, Living News

I am an American, and I am a New Yorker. I grew up in Long Island, then the Bronx. I grew up with an iconic skyline shaped by the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings and the World Trade Center.

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Joe Wilsons vs. The Presidents

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ambassador-Joe-Wilson, People Named Joe Wilson, George W. Bush, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson, Rep. Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Politics News

One of the more interesting aspects of last night's presidential address was that here we had President Barack Obama being called a liar by a man name...

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