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Reagan's Long Shadow Over Clinton, Obama, and Both Bushes
By Carl M. Cannon
At the outset of his presidential campaign, Barack Obama framed the setting of his candidacy as taking place at a time when Americans were eager for change. The year 2008 was a lot like 1960 when John F. Kennedy ran, Obama mused aloud. And like 1980, as well, he added, which was a more delicate ...
White House Condemns Prosecution of American Alan Gross in Cuba
By Tom Diemer
Hope for improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba suffered a setback this week as the White House condemned the island nation's plan to prosecute an American contractor, apparently suspected of being a spy by the Cubans. Alan Gross, 61, was arrested in late 2009 in Cuba while working as a ...
McCain Tells Rumsfeld: I Was Right on Iraq
By Tom Diemer
Rummy and Mac are still having a spat over Iraq. Sen. John McCain says history has proven him correct in his insistence that the United States needed more boots on the ground in its battle against a bloody insurgency in Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resisted the call for more troops -- ...
Scott Bloch, Bush Whistle-Blower Protector, Faces Jail Time
By Christopher WeberThe former head of the whistle-blower protection office in the George W. Bush White House is expected to get a month in jail when he's sentenced next week on a charge of withholding information from congressional investigators. Scott Bloch, who ran the Office of Special Counsel, pleaded guilty in ...
Rumsfeld Says He Should Have Quit Defense Post After Abu Ghraib Scandal
By Politics Daily Staff
Donald Rumsfeld, known for his tart one-liners as well as his hawkish foreign policy stands, says in a new memoir that he regrets that he did not step down as defense secretary after reports of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In "Known and Unknown," Rumsfeld says he wishes he had insisted ...
Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei A 'Stooge,' Says American Jewish Leader
By David Gibson
Even as the Egyptian opposition to beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak is rallying around Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, a top spokesman on foreign affairs for the American Jewish community has derided ElBaradei as a "stooge of Iran." Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference ...
Poll: Republican Image in Positive Territory for First Time Since 2005
By Bruce Drake
Last month, The Washington Post headlined the poll it conducts with ABC News: "Public Is Not Yet Sold on GOP." While the Republicans scored big in the November elections, the Post said the survey showed, "they have yet to win the hearts and minds of the American people." But there's a more positive ...
Cairo Is Not Berlin: The Folly of Mistaking Egypt for the Former Eastern Bloc
By Sarah Wildman
"Whatever the future holds . . . the tide can never be turned back." Words about Egypt's days of protest, which broke out last Tuesday? No. Written this week? No. The sentence comes from Page One of the Washington Post on Aug. 31, 1980. The country was Poland. The story was striking Lenin Shipyard ...
Report on Bush-Era Politicking Underscores Need for Hatch Act Reform
By Andrew CohenThe good news about the Office of Special Counsel's lengthy and detailed report on Bush-era politicking at the White House is that creates a detailed historical record of the ways in which federal employees back then violated both the letter and the spirit of the Hatch Act, the federal statute ...
Hillary Clinton Sees Second Term for Obama -- but Perhaps Not for Herself
By Tom DiemerHillary Clinton chuckled as she watched video of Dick Cheney predicting that her boss, President Obama, would be a one-term president. "I am pleased that former Vice President Cheney is healthy and resuming public activity, but I could not disagree more," the secretary of state said Tuesday. Cheney ...
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