President Barack Obama
After all the heat former President George W. Bush took for his multitude of signing statements, you would think President Barack Obama would know better than to use them, too.
Well, apparently, he doesn’t.
According to this story from The Hill,…
Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame in 2006. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
Maureen Dowd’s column that will appear in the Thursday Post-Dispatch is a make-believe conversation between Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. She ends it with Cheney and Rumsfeld joking about getting President…
“Just because you invade a place stupidly doesn’t mean you have to leave it stupidly.”
Counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen (left) with Lt. Col. Michael Infanti in Iraq in 2007. (U.S. Army Photo)
So speaks David Kilcullen, a former Australian Army officer with…
From Reuters: The Senate has approved congressional voting rights for Washington, D.C. The House is expected to follow suit. And President Barack Obama has promised to sign legislation that grants such rights to D.C. But opponents of such rights likely…
President George W. Bush | Getty Images
President George W. Bush was at times serious, funny and mocking in what has been billed as his last press conference as president. Read the Associated Press story here.
Among disappointments about his presidency, Bush…
Today’s exercise, class, is to imagine how historians 50 years hence will summarize George W. Bush’s presidency.
This is a high school survey class — we’re assuming there will still be such a thing as high school in 50 years — so…
Anyone who has moved out of a home knows the embarrassment of cleaning out the basement and the attic, hauling years of accumulated junk into the light of day, wondering why that sofa or lamp ever seemed like a good…
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,…
“May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.” Pierre de…
