Bush Administration

Review: Good -- Reflecting the Bush years

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.30.2008 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

"Hitler's a joke," Viggo Mortensen tells a friend in the new film, Good. "He won't last." Gee -- didn't they say that about George W. Bush? I've bee...

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The Department of Commerce: An Opportunity for Bill Richardson to Shine Once Again

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Bill Richardson is undoubtedly well-qualified to the Commerce Department and charter a new course for American business at home and abroad.

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Obama Going Easy on Bush? Say It Ain't So

Lee Camp | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics

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Lee Camp

If you use dogs to harm dogs, you're sentenced to jail time. If you use dogs to harm humans, you receive no repercussions except a moderate grilling on Meet The Press.

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Bush's OSHA Suffered Through Inaction

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics

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In early 2001, an epidemiologist at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration sought to publish a special bulletin warning dental technicians ...

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Digging Out of the '00ze

Eric Lurio | Posted 12.29.2008 | Living

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Eric Lurio

Names are important. Generally the naming of decades is a no brainer. The question is what to call the decade whose final year is about to begin.

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Tactics Used In Afghanistan Illustrate U.S. Failed To Learn From Iraq

BraveNewFilms | Derrick Crowe | Posted 12.27.2008 | World

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Afghanistan is larger, less hospitable, more populous and proportionally more expensive and deadly for U.S. troops. That's what makes the United State...

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The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

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Hoyt Hilsman

Unlike earlier failed presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, Bush does not seem to acknowledge or even recognize the destruction that he has wrought.

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Bush Gift To Aides: Part-Time Jobs

AP | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Most of President George W. Bush's aides and top administration officials have no idea what they'll do when the next president take...

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Lumps of Coal in Cheney's Stocking

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

"I feel very good about a lot of the things we've done in this administration," Cheney told Chris Wallace in a Fox News interview this past weekend.

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Bush Punts Auto Industry to Team Obama; UAW Concedes Even More

Steve Parker | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.

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Sock and Awe(ful)

Lance Simmens | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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Lance Simmens

We as a free society should strengthen our resolve that "never again" will we allow our leaders a free pass on such weighty matters of life and death.

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Sam Stein

Lieberman Goes After Bush Administration (Finally)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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Fresh off his successful effort to keep his seat atop the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee -- in which he was often accused of bei...

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Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

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Frances Beinecke

As Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has to send a powerful signal that the era of unethical behavior and unchecked industry influence is over.

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Bush Just Couldn't Leave Quietly

Nancy Northup | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Nancy Northup

New HHS regulations only serve to exacerbate existing problems and achieve nothing at all. Obama should take immediate action and stop the damage to women's health before it starts.

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Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

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Remember Guantanamo -- for Daniel Pearl

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

According to Philip Heyman, attorney general under Clinton, denying these rights amounts to "overthrowing 800 years of democratic tradition," including habeas corpus and the Magna Carta.

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Obama Economic Policy Snubs Small Business

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

There appears to be a significant disconnect between President-elect Obama's campaign promises to American small businesses and the actual policies he is proposing.

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Bush Midnight Regulations Drive Down Wages, Working Conditions

LA Times | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Aiming to ease farm labor shortages, the Bush administration issued sweeping changes to the nation's agricultural guest worker program Thursday, but C...

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Iraq Parliament Speaker Resigns Over Shoe-Thrower

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 12.17.2008 | World

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BAGHDAD — Chaos erupted in Iraq's parliament Wednesday over the jailing of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, with lawm...

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In Lebanon, Students Find Hero In Iraqi Shoe Thrower

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 12.16.2008 | World

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

* Scroll down for video As former President Carter ended his trip to Lebanon where he spoke to a crowd of students about peace and was only interrupt...

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Guantanamo Detainees To Be Sent To Bosnia

AP | MIKE MELIA and AIDA CERKEZ-ROBINSON | Posted 12.16.2008 | World

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Three Guantanamo prisoners were flown to Bosnia Tuesday and released to their families in the first detainee tran...

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Salvaging the EPA: Can Jackson Do It?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

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Jeremy Jacquot

It is a testament to the Bush administration's incompetence that, over the span of just eight years, it has transformed the EPA, once the gatekeeper of the nation's environmental policies, into a shadow of its former self.

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Bush: On the Line

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

President Bush and his henchmen are working overtime to ensure that the full extent of damage inflicted upon detainees never sees the light of day.

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"Transplant" Automakers Get Over $3.6 Billion in Subsidies; More Unions, Ralph Nader Comment

Steve Parker | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.

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GOP to America: Drop Dead, or "What's in it for Me?"

David Fiderer | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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David Fiderer

Let's be clear, the Republican senators' moves against the Detroit bailout is not about $15 billion, which is a rounding error in the context of the Iraq surge or the financial bailout.

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