WASHINGTON — Ron Paul’s strong early showing in the race for the Republican presidential nomination could leave rivals with a fateful choice: Tilt toward his views or risk an election-changing third party bid. After coming third in Iowa and second in New Hampshire — the first votes to choose the…
US President Barack Obama’s unfulfilled promise to close Guantanamo Bay is a lesson in how soaring campaign vows can wilt in the partisan stew and entrenched obstructionism of Washington politics. Stalled efforts to close the war on terror camp also reflect the intricate, and often immovable homeland security state built…
US President Barack Obama on Thursday added $50 million to fight AIDS in the United States and launched efforts to treat two million more people abroad. “We can beat this disease,” Obama said at an event to mark World AIDS Day which included speeches by satellite from former presidents Bill…
1.) Where is George W. Bush’s real birth certificate? 2.) Was George W. Bush’s birth announcement planted in the paper to divert attention from his actual birth? 3.) What is George W. Bush’s Social Security Number? 4.) Does George W. Bush’s Social Security Number match the assignment pattern traditionally followed…
It must be Arizona’s week in the spotlight for wingers, crazies, and fundies. Poor failed presidential candidate Sen. John McCain had the gall to suggest to heat-packing Arizonans that President Obama doesn’t want to torch the Constitution (not like, say, George W. Bush, who already set it ablaze). And these…
George W. Bush gave us Soulja Boy, Scott Stapp the solo artist, and Fergie. Enough said.…
The man who shredded the Constitution and whose administration was full of criminal law-breakers and advocates of torture will get his name on the Midland County Courthouse if the Texas legislature has its say. Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Midland – Bush’s longtime friend and former accountant – is pushing the idea.…
Since the stellar work of George W. Bush and the Republicans has run the economy into the ground in ways no one thought possible, I thought I’d take the pulse of readers. How bad is the economy where you are?? Share some observations, and perhaps a few links to recent…
It’s almost mystical, isn’t it? Between college classmates who lament the abortion holocaust and midwestern cousins who join a group which includes such sentiments as: America will soon know how good of a president he was and Thank you for being one of the best Presidents America has ever had!…
John Cole has a great post on the rather obscene levels of Palin revisionism that are going on – in this case, the idea that Palin’s reputation as a reactionary idiot comes from highfalutin conservative intellectuals who just can’t accept the fact that the Greatest Woman In The World doesn’t…