Not 24 hours had passed since Jack Bauer began the ultimate interrogation of his sorry career, before a hostile panel of senators, when George W. Bush took the White House podium to subject himself to the “ultimate exit interview” in … Read more »
All last week on President-elect Obama’s transition website, Change.gov, the top-rated publicly-submitted question asked the incoming president whether he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate “the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping.” When ABC … Read more »
Another month, another half-million Americans out of work. The ranks of the unemployed have now stretched beyond 11 million, and millions more are underemployed… Read more »
“This is not the America I know,” President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. … Read more »
It has been like a national nightmare: We are attacked by terrorists and our leaders respond not with courage and a call to our higher natures, but by spreading fear — and turning us into a regime of torturers. Rather … Read more »
Today, President-elect Obama is moving forward with what he has billed as his top priority: an economic stimulus package called the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.” He is scheduled to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority … Read more »
Our current economic meltdown may finally have ended the era that began when Ronald Reagan became President. Now a new study… Read more »
WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella. So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. Even the banality of evil is too … Read more »
Does anyone know where George W. Bush is?
You don’t hear much from him anymore. The last image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad.
We’re … Read more »
