George W. Bush’s speech placing Iran in the “Axis of Evil” and that was that; Washington was now implacably opposed to the Islamic Republic’s very existence. The prospects of peace have never seemed dimmer. And so Iran seems to be – aside from the cascading consequences of the Iraq...
Dan Quayle was 41 years old — a year older than Vance is now — when he set foot on the debate stage with his Senate colleague, Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, who was some 26 years his senior. There were concerns about Quayle’s age after he was tapped by then-Vice Presid...
with Tricky Dick Nixon carrying 49 states to George McGovern’s one (Minnesota) but rose from those ashes — exemplified by having to endure the ignominy of a television telethons to raise money for itself — to elect Jimmy Carter in 1976. ...
The spook shops have continuity of staff with the heinous thugs behind the Bush-Cheney torture regime, officials who simply have to be purged from the ranks in full and for good to give the “intelligence community” a fighting chance at regaining the credibility it never should have been gran...
He noted “thirty people” who still have Secret Service protection include Jimmy Carter (“who is on his death bed”) George Bush, Bill Clinton and their families. “As long they’re law abiding citizens, they keep it.” Lead Art: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) speaks on...
Gregg Easterbrook is a senior editor of New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is believed to be the first Brookings scholar ever to write a pro football column.You can buy his football book, the incredibly cleverly ti...
interference call against Green Bay in the fourth quarter bails Seattle out of first-and-25; the play by the defender was perfectly clean. Moments after Green Bay is penalized for doing nothing, on the final snap, Seattle's Golden Tate shoves defensive back Sam Shields to ...
Almost all the borrowing has been under the direction of George W. Bush -- at this point Bush makes Kenneth Lay seem like a paragon of fiscal caution. Democrats deserve ample blame, too. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leaders of the Senate and House, have never met a bailout th...
Bush, where he was chief speechwriter to the president. Speechwriter Marc served as a member of the White House senior staff under President George W. Bush, where he was chief speechwriter to the president and lead writer on two State of the Union addresses. Before that, Marc served as ...
Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, Tony Blair and Hillary Clinton amongst them. Sir Trevor became the first sole presenter of News At Ten in 1992 and anchored the Late Evening News until December 2005. By then he had received more awards than any other news broadcaster in Britain includi...