Bush Administration

12241 Stories, most recent news story added 6 minutes ago

Send
- Email
- IM
Share
- Digg
- Facebook
- Newsvine
- del.icio.us
- Reddit
- StumbleUpon
- Technorati
- Yahoo! Bookmarks

News Stories

Sort By:

Cheney to Run for President in 2012?
Fox News - Sat Dec 5, 3:52 pm ET
Scattered conservatives want former Vice President Dick Cheney to do more than beat President Obama in the press. They want him to beat him in the 2012 election.
Gates: No good intel on bin Laden in years
UPI - 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States has not had any reliable intelligence on the whereabouts of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden for "years."
New jobs plan may be more of old one
Politico via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 29 minutes ago
To hear the talk at the White House jobs summit, President Barack Obama has dozens of job-creating ideas to pick from when he sketches out his plan in a speech Tuesday.
How to Run Up a Deficit, Without Fear
New York Times - 2 hours 34 minutes ago
Policy makers could balance the budget by taxing indirectly harmful activities like financial speculation, as we do with sulfur dioxide emissions.
Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan
AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 54 minutes ago
The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.
The War in Pashtunistan
New York Times - Sat Dec 5, 5:03 pm ET
ELDERS Village leaders complained about Marine patrols after Americans retook control from the Taliban in southern Helmand last July.
Hundreds protest New York 9/11 trial
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:59 pm ET
Hundreds of protestors rallied Saturday against the plan to give the alleged mastermind of 9/11 and four others a civilian trial in New York City.
Climate drama climax looks elusive in Copenhagen
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:41 pm ET
For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.
After Honduras: Obama's Latin American Policy Looks Like Bush's
Time Magazine - Sat Dec 5, 1:09 pm ET
The President has allowed his dealings with Central and South America to be hijacked by congressional conservatives and old-fashioned cold warriors
Destroyed US town a model of eco-living as it rebuilds
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 12:56 pm ET
With all eyes on US efforts to combat climate change at next week's UN summit in Copenhagen, one Kansas town is going green in a big way -- and setting an example for American communities.
Ex-UN weapons inspector condemns Blair, Bush on Iraq
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 1:13 am ET
George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, an ex-UN weapons inspector said Saturday.
Popular Mayor to Run for Governor of Texas
New York Times - Sat Dec 5, 11:58 am ET
Bill White of Dallas gave Democrats a faint hope for the first time in 15 years that they might be able to take back the governor’s mansion.
Obama approval rating below 50 percent
CNN - Sat Dec 5, 11:26 am ET
Support for President Obama has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in a CNN poll despite high marks for his recently announced Afghanistan policy.
Texas governor’s race, Congress and the Obama administration
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - 1 hour 0 minutes ago
Hutchison a disappointment
Key dates in the story of a warming planet
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 10:02 am ET
1750 — Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2).
BRAINS AND GUTS
David Shribman via Yahoo! News - 40 minutes ago
Less than a week before he died, McGeorge Bundy, the brilliant Harvard dean who was an architect of John F.
The Terror Threat America Still Faces
Newsweek - 48 minutes ago
Americans can be excused for thinking that terrorism is largely behind them. Eight-plus years after the 9/11 attacks, Al Qaeda has yet to strike the United States again. Airport screening seems routine and more relaxed, and anxieties over employment, mortgages, and health care have supplanted worries about anthrax and suicide bombers.
Similarities to Iraq Surge Plan Mask Risks in Afghanistan
New York Times - Sat Dec 5, 7:23 am ET
President Obama is heading into his new strategy with warnings that many of the conditions that made the Iraq surge work do not exist in Afghanistan, but some similarities do exist.
Pawlenty, other aspirants travel for foreign cred
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 6:28 am ET
Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house.
Did Obama take history at Harvard?
Chicago Sun-Times - Sat Dec 5, 10:37 am ET
President Obama is very smart about many things. He was a brilliant scholar at Harvard. But he apparently hasn't learned history.President Lyndon Baines Johnson also was very good at many things. But he, too, lacked an understanding of history.Johnson inherited the Vietnam War. He didn't know how to get out. So he just gave generals the more troops they always want. Vietnam became his albatross ...