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Dana Perino, President George W. Bush’s press secretary, gave her final press briefing today, and we’re a little sad about that. Perino’s press briefings were extraordinarily watchable.
She could be stern and uncompromising or funny and ironic. She…
America’s national forests are criss-crossed by dirt roads built to enable logging crews to reach secluded timber stands. Just 14 days before leaving office, the Bush administration is changing federal rules to allow those roads to be paved.
The…
In Missouri, you can live in poverty but still not be poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. Adults have to earn less than about 25 percent of the federal income poverty level — roughly $3,700 a year for a single…
George W. Bush may be the undisputed champion when it comes to presidential vacations, but his staff is working overtime. As the clock ticks down to Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, the Bush administration is working feverishly to dismantle at least 10…
With most of the nation focused on a historic presidential campaign and election, Bush administration officials have been busy preparing parting gifts for their friends in private industry.
They’re scrambling to rewrite scores of federal regulations. Among the goals: to allow…
Sometime this week, the Bush administration is expected, for the first time, to make public its case for holding detainees at the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Think about that: At one point, as many as 700 individuals were held…
In a Washington Times article sure to spark discussion around the blogosphere, conservative pundit Matthew Sheffield has a column today alleging that left-leaning blogs contain far more profanity than their counterparts on the right.
Using George Carlin’s “seven dirty words” as a…
The Bush administration is attempting to re-define “pregnancy.” From the Wall Street Journal:
The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception…
In today’s print edition of the Post-Dispatch, one can find this guest op-ed from Mark Klein and Babak Pasdar on the impending Senate vote on FISA reform that would grant de-facto immunity to telecommunications companies who participated in the NSA’s secret…
My column today pulls together and reflects on last week’s three major developments in America’s ongoing effort to understand how the Bush administration came to approve and use abusive interrogation techniques on prisoners — something that violates every principle of…
The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…
The prevailing notion today among most domestic economic and media observers is that the U.S. economy is in a recession — and most believe it will get worse before it gets better. But is that really the case?
Representing the prevailing view,…
Caught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…
BradBlog, a voting rights blog by Missouri’s own Brad Friedman, has the uncut video of Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” interviewing Douglas J. Feith, author of “War and Decision” and undersecretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld. The interview ran…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing significantly tighter air pollution standards for lead — the first update in 30 years. It’s long overdue.
But in announcing the new rule, the Bush administration ignored recommendations from independent scientific advisers who had called for…
Polar bears are threatened by global warming, which is melting the ice pack on which they hunt and live. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be extinct by 2050. In January 2007, The…
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