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David Dent: Second Term Hell: Obama's Dante Days in Bush-Obama America

2013-05-17T10:29:19Z

Every U.S. president should visit a Blackjack table in Atlantic City sometime in the first term. It should happen just as they are in the middle of those Dreams From Your Ego, which promise bright new hopes if they can only win that second term.

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Former Supreme Court Justice Questions Bush v. Gore Decision

2013-05-17T10:21:10Z

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday cast doubt on the criteria used to decide the 2000 Bush v. Gore case that ultimately delive...

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Bob Cesca: 10 Examples of Bush and the Republicans Using Government Power to Target Critics

2013-05-16T16:59:56Z

The congressional Republicans are outraged by the IRS story, but they haven't been able to scramble to the floor of the House quickly enough to target left-leaning groups.

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Tom Morello To Play Tribute Concert For Friend, Dying Iraq War Veteran, Tomas Young

2013-05-15T12:54:23Z

Tom Morello has played to millions of people in countless venues around the world, and yet a May 19 booking at a movie theater in Kansas City, Mo., co...

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Paul Abrams: Benghazi: The Right Wing's Brilliant Word Salads, and the Media Falls for It

2013-05-14T15:37:12Z

So, the media needs another food-fight story, and, if there is no real one, just allow themselves to be sucked in by right-wing propaganda. Hence, Benghazi. Again.

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Andy Ostroy: The GOP's Benghazi Witch Hunt: A Solution in Search of a Problem

2013-05-14T14:21:04Z

In the Iraq war 4500 American soldiers died, not to mention the tens of thousands of others, including Iraqis, killed or maimed. Yet Washington never witnessed such outrage and a quest for the truth from Republicans, whose disingenuous motives on Benghazi are now utterly transparent.

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William Bradley: Benghazi Blues: Massive Conspiracy or Hack Politics and Dumb PR?

2013-05-13T19:35:17Z

Obama poses an excellent question: Why put together a spin program that will fall apart in a few days? For that is exactly what happened.

Read more: William Kristol, Libya, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Politics News, George W. Bush, 9/11, Benghazi, Neoconservative, Iraq, Robert Kagan, John McCain, Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney, World News

Cliff Schecter: Our Very Own West, Texas

2013-05-13T05:42:51Z

On April 25 -- Thursday evening -- American icon and humble hero George W. Bush took one small step for man, one slip-and-fall for humanity as he reen...

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Joe Peyronnin: Benghazi Politics

2013-05-11T16:47:27Z

Instead of focusing on what is being done to capture the perpetrators and what measures are being put in place to assure it doesn't happen again, tragically Republicans are zeroing in on a misleading set of administration talking points used by officials to explain the attack.

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William Bradley: California Gets a New Democrat: Defection of Recent Rising Star Among Latest Signs of Further GOP Decline

2013-05-10T20:28:37Z

One of the strangest things about California over the past decade is how little impact Arnold Schwarzenegger's two landslide wins for the governorship had on the Republican Party.

Read more: Mindy Tucker Fletcher, Meg Whitman, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Republican Party, Crime, 2010 California Elections, War, Renewable Energy, Los Angeles News, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Nathan Fletcher, Jerry Brown, 2012 California Elections, 2014 California Elections, Marine Corps, Republican Party, Proposition 30, High-Speed Rail, San Francisco News, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Abel Maldonado, Gray Davis, Iraq, Willie Horton, Politics News

Bob Cesca: 13 Benghazis That Occurred on Bush's Watch Without a Peep from Fox News

2013-05-09T14:19:31Z

The Benghazi attacks (the consulate and the CIA compound) are absolutely not unprecedented even though they're being treated that way by Republicans. So we're left to conclude the obvious. The investigations and accusations and conspiracy theories are entirely motivated by politics.

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Lincoln Mitchell: Open Carry Marches and Stories of Tyranny

2013-05-09T09:06:38Z

The march itself is not a very big deal. It will probably come and go with some media attention and disappointing numbers. However, the language being used by the organizers is sufficiently troubling, and intriguing, that it deserves some attention.

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Paul Steven Stone: Tell Me Lies: A Republican Songbook

2013-05-08T18:50:20Z

Why should Bush's many over-indulgences, managerial incompetencies and financial missteps be allowed to kill off programs that were the work of many administrations and the combined will of the American people in the modern era?

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Dee Evans: Republicans and the Benghazi Hearings: A Show of Force or Just a Show?

2013-05-08T14:36:25Z

History shows that each of the presidents of the past few decades have had to deal with embassy attacks and bombings but for some reason, I don't ever recall there being so much unrest following an attack as there is now under President Obama.

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Andy Ostroy: South Carolinians: WTF!!??

2013-05-08T10:39:19Z

What's wrong with this picture? Judging from the outcome of Tuesday's contest, it seems that Sanford, South Carolina's devout citizens and God herself surely work in very mysterious ways.... (Anthony Weiner and Elliot Spitzer, are you listening?)

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How Al Gore Could Have Won With Ease

2013-05-08T08:43:27Z

I had no clue about approval voting before I saw this. Luckily, this is just my speed when it comes to understanding political processes. ...

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Charles Knight: Military Intervention in Syria? -- American People Show Greater Wisdom Than Washington

2013-05-07T17:19:38Z

When strong majorities hold opinions opposing military intervention in Syria there is something other than isolationism going on.

Read more: Iraq War, Syria, Syria Civil War, Democratic Republic of Congo, John Bolton, George W. Bush, Bashar Assad, R2p, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News

Obama Administration Keeps Report On Secret Terms

2013-05-06T20:38:34Z

Much of what you’ve been told (or seen in movies) about George W. Bush’s supposedly effective torture program is false and overhyped. At least, th...

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Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- April 2013

2013-05-06T19:18:15Z

In April, Obama's numbers returned to a normal level, after experiencing a very short post-election "honeymoon period" with the public which bounced his numbers up to a peak, and then bounced them right back down again.

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George P. Bush Headed To Washington

2013-05-06T13:10:19Z

George P. Bush, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and nephew of former President George W. Bush, will be in Washington, D.C., later this week to...

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Pressure To Intervene In Syria Mounting

2013-05-06T02:38:04Z

On several occasions, President Obama has declared that if the regime used chemical weapons, or even prepared to use them, it would be crossing a “r...

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How Bush Problem Became Obama Disgrace

2013-05-05T10:54:08Z

Once upon a time, in the long-ago days of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, we may have had the worst and most abusive presidential administration in th...

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Mike Lux: Ghosts of Enron

2013-05-03T16:59:12Z

The ghosts of the Enron Corporation are haunting us still, and they are a lot scarier than any horror movie ghosts because, unlike the Hollywood variety, these ghosts still have enough substance to cause an economic nightmare.

Read more: JP Morgan Chase, Sec, Occ, Arthur Andersen, Sherrod Brown, Ferc, Libor, Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act, George W. Bush, TBTF Banks, Enron, Jamie Dimon, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Dailyenron, Politics News

Former Bush Press Secretary Said What About Nazis?

2013-05-03T15:14:26Z

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer defended Guantanamo Bay on CNN Thursday night, arguing that the United States was justified in openin...

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Bob Burnett: Dubya's Legacy: 10 Suggestions

2013-05-03T10:23:00Z

Just when most Americans had forgotten the traumatic Bush era, along came the George W. Bush Library to reopen old wounds.

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