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Supreme Court sides with Secret Service agents in free-speech case
A Colorado man has lost his bid to sue two Secret Service agents who allegedly had him arrested in retaliation for critical comments he made to then-Vice President Dick Cheney during a public meet and greet event at a local shopping mall. The man, Steven Howards, filed a lawsuit against…
Maddow: Romney on board with the legacy of Dick Cheney
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained that although presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had distanced himself from George W. Bush, Romney had openly expressed his admiration for Dick Cheney. She began the segment by outlining the history of Cheney, who had defended President Ronald Reagan…
Dick Cheney receives heart transplant: aide
Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant Saturday afternoon at a Virginia hospital, according to the Associated Press. Cheney, who suffered his fifth heart attack in 2010, did not know the identity of the heart donor after waiting 20 months for the operation, as told to the AP…
Supreme Court to hear Cheney shoulder-pat case
The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a freedom of expression case involving an opponent of the Iraq war arrested for touching the shoulder of then-vice president Dick Cheney. The justices said they would hear arguments in the case of Steven Howards, arrested in 2006 by Secret Service agents…
National Archive keeps bulk of 9/11 Commission report sealed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ten years after al Qaeda’s attack on the United States, the vast majority of the 9/11 Commission’s investigative records remain sealed at the National Archives in Washington, even though the commission had directed the archives to make most of the material public in 2009, Reuters has…
Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she resented what she viewed as an attack on her integrity by former Vice President Dick Cheney in his just-published memoir. Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Rice rejected Cheney’s contention that she misled President George W. Bush…
Anti-gay Puerto Rican senator accused of posting naked pics on gay social app
A Puerto Rico senator has become the latest politician placed into controversy after allegedly posting sexual photos of himself online. Senator Robert Arango, who was the Vice Chairman of George W.Bush and Dick Cheney’s Puerto Rico re-election committee in 2004, has been supposedly identified by the Puerto Rican TV show…
Cheney: History beginning to ‘come around’ on ‘stand up guy’ Bush
Dick Cheney thinks the sun of history is beginning to shine on his former boss. Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush presidential center in Dallas, Cheney said that “history is beginning to come around” to a rosier view of Bush’s presidency. Cheney asserted that history’s view…
Ex-congressman who allegedly groped staffers claims Cheney wanted to institute ‘coup’
The same ex-congressman who claimed that there was no sexual intent behind his tickling of a staffer has a new one for ya. “Gentlemen, what we have here is a constitutional crisis,” then-Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) told editors for Esquire Magazine in January. “If what I’ve been told is true…
The Cheney Will Take Over Your Surface World
The simple answer to the question of why Dick Cheney is a spiteful, hateful ghoul of a human being probably has a lot to do with the fact that Cheney is vastly hated, but he was never humbled. Although Fallows is wrong about Bush’s overwhelming and uncritical graciousness towards Obama…
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