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Soon after White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolton, announced that senior staff working at the White House past Labor Day would be expected to stay on through the end of the Bush presidency, Rove announced his resignation. Some suggest Rove is leaving to insulate himself from ongoing Congressional investigations. Others may speculate Rove […]

Rudy Giuliani wants to be like President Bush. He wants to be a decider. In a recent article in the LA Times, Giuliani applauded President Bush’s demeanor throughout his Presidency and in particular with respect to the Iraq invasion. Interesting.
The problem with celebrating a man’s decisiveness is that you shift focus away […]

I just wanted to throw this quick question out there into the web soup. According to conventional wisdom (progressive bloggers), Robert Gates should not be confirmed as Secretary of Defense given his alleged ties to Iran-Contra and his reported doctoring of CIA reports to implicate the KGB in the Pope’s attempted assassination in the […]

I don’t want to sound too harsh, but how long must we play the victim card before we allow ourselves to move on? I’ve never liked martyrdom and think less of turning victims into heros, not because they aren’t, but because it also elevates the violence against them. We need to stop this. […]

Arianna Huffington has offered another provocative perspective in her recent post: Winning the War On Terror: Lessons From Hercules, Hydra and Tom Friedman. While her points may not be entirely original, many of us who are critical of Mr. Bush’s campaign in Iraq will continue to rephrase our arguments until something makes it […]