The Secrets of the Kingdom: Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
JERRY POURNELLE: “I would have thought that the Obama administration is at least as responsible for the US response to the Swine Flu problem as the Bush administration ever was for the New Orleans response to Katrina, but the media are not reporting it that way. I wonder how those who stood in long [...]
Standard Mischief (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Random DU comment from 5 years ago: “This may be Bush’s Waterloo!” Kerry points to Bush on vaccine shortage What a difference five years makes on flu vaccine shortage And a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star [1], Inequity in politics of flu vaccine shortages During the Bush administration, the Democrats seized on the shortage [...]
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Weekly Standard: Can anything else possibly go wrong for the Obama administration's Middle East policy? In the past ten days, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has twice reversed herself publicly on her attitude toward the Israeli settlements. Palestinians have refused her direct request to rejoin peace talks with Israel, and Palestinian Authority president Abbas has said he will not...
The Political Environment (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Some forget that the economy went into free fall during the late days of the Bush administration, wiping out the McCain-Palin ticket. Without initiatives begun in the first ten months of the Obama administration, things would no doubt be worst than they are today.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This week, I participated in a panel discussion about the Bush administration's "torture memos" with a former Bush administration official, Daniel Levin. And it turns...
War On You (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05 by Tom Burghardt President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret...
culturekitchen (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... system of issuing IDs to all Federal employees and contractors across all agencies. But, under the Bush Administration, no good idea went unexploited for opportunities to deny people their basic civil liberties. The implementation of HSPD#12 became a wholesale attempt to get anyone with access to a Federal facility (including my wife who was a grad student in a NASA run building)...
Ignorance Is Futile! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
“The fact that the military — in this instance NORTHCOM — is being trained to operate with our borders should be setting off alarms throughout this nation. But it’s being ignored even by those who profess to be conservatives,” Read On MORE: Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus [...]
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.
MediaBloodhound (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. Last May, the Inspector General’s office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal investigation’s report on the retired military analyst program, which...
CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Brad Jacobson The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. read more
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has pleaded guilty to giving false information to Bush administration officials who vetted his unsuccessful 2004 nomination to be homeland security secretary.
Trucking Accident Attorney Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... see an Oct. 27 article from the Associated Press reporting that safety officials under the Obama administration has abandoned an effort by the Bush administration to extend the hours of service allowable for truckers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has not promised to return to the previous rule, but signed an agreement to revise it. The AP says that...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[Read Part I, Part II and Part III of this series.] The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. Last May, the Inspector General’s office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal investigation’s report...
