Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama....

 Download | Play   Download | Play  (h/t Bill W) I’ve alternated between calling life under the Bush administration as some Carrollian absurdity and an Orwellian nightmare.  Turns out that we in the liberal blogosphere aren’t the only ones mak...

It is crap like this that has put the liberal news media on the same level as a rotting cesspool (full of decaying you-know-what): Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidenti...

Scott McClellan testified before Congress Friday. WASHINGTON (CNN) — A former Bush spokesman said Friday he did not think the president knew about the leak of a CIA agent's identity, but refused to give the same assurances about Vice President Dick Cheney. "I do not think the president had any...

We have known about the President and Vice President’s web of lies which led up the war in Iraq for some time. The book Hubris, by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, does an excellent job of documenting what was wrong and why we knew them to be wrong. The Los Angeles Times runs a story today abou...

after being a witness to this morning's events here in afghanistan, it's particularly galling to read the continuing saga of the criminals who are in charge of my own country... The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can ...

Bush has said continuously that it is not us who should judge him, but history. "The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it." Neither Bush or anyone else has to wait for the judgment of tomorrow.  One of the most...

The Independent’s Robert Fisk looks back at five years of catastrophe in Iraq and is reminded of Winston Churchill’s depiction of Palestine as a “hell-disaster.” READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March 19, 2008 Winter Soldier Marches Again March 19, 2008 War Started With Li...

let's see if THIS grows legs... INTERROGATION AND VIDEOTAPINGOF DETAINEES IN GUANT�NAMO ByMark DenbeauxProfessor, Seton Hall University School of LawDirector, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and ResearchJoshua Denbeaux,* and R. David Gratz,*Denbeaux & DenbeauxCounsel to two Guantánamo Detaine...

as an appropriate follow-on to the previous post (or perhaps, more accurately, a good lead-in), glenn has this to say... [W]e have a perfect oligarchical system in which, literally, our most powerful and well-connected elite are free to break the law with impunity, exempt from any consequences. Whil...