President Bush “will give his first post-presidency U.S. speech in Erie, Pa., on June 17 to the Manufacturer & Business Association, which serves companies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.” Bush’s first speech will be March 17 in Calgary, Canada. “No one wants [President ...

Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Krugman worries that “the White House has decided to muddle through on the financial front, relying on economic recovery to rescue the banks rather than the other way around.” “Sooner or later, the administration will realize that more must be don...

Last night the federal government agreed to provide an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to the American International Group. AIG is expected to report a $62 billion loss today, the biggest quarterly loss of any company in history. The U.S. government already owns 80 percent of AIG’s ho...

Just days before the Inauguration, Rush Limbaugh famously declared, “I hope [Obama] fails.â€� Since then, some conservatives have been hesitant to embrace this view. Pat Robertson said, “That was a terrible thing to say.” “Anybody who wants him to fail is an idiot,” sai...

In his speech before a joint session of Congress tonight, President Obama took a jab at Bush’s disastrous economic policies: [W]e have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter...

During the Bush administration, conservatives heralded Ronald Reagan’s own struggle against terrorism as the ideal model for George W. Bush. Frank Gaffney hoped Bush “not only memorializes Ronald Reagan’s moral compass and strategic vision but emulates them,” while Rich Lowry...

Writing in Time, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) lays out “the case for a truth commission.� “People would be invited to come forward and share their knowledge and experiences, not for purposes of constructing criminal indictments but to assemble the facts,� he writes. “If needed, such a process...

Dick Cheney was “furious” up until the end at President Bush’s refusal to pardon Scooter Libby. “He went to the mat and came back and back and back at Bush,” a “Cheney defender” said. “He was still trying the day before Obama was sworn in.” Today...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he was ordering a review of the ban on media photographs of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers returning to Dover Air Force base. “[T]he more honor we can accord these fallen heroes, the better,” Gates said yesterday. “I think that looking at i...

In March, voters in two Vermont towns — Marlboro and Brattleboro — passed symbolic articles seeking to arrest President Bush and Vice President Cheney if they ever came to their towns. These citizens may now get their chance. The American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester (approximatel...