Maybe big spending causes amnesia
After writing that voters have elected big spenders for years, The Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum heard angry defenses of George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans as small government champions....
View ArticleDon’t buy the hype; Bush was terrible
With the release of George W. Bush’s memoir, “Decision Points,” many of the beltway talking class seem to be softening their view of the previous president, but Stephen M. Walt in his article for...
View ArticleIf only Bush had waited a few years…
Instead of invading Iraq to enforce regime change, what if we had waited a few years and let the Iraqis take matters into their own hands, asks Cord Jeffereson in Good. It’s a question Jefferson says...
View ArticlePower only builds, never wanes
“Evidence that the growth of government is a one-way ratchet continues to mount in Washington,” observes A. Barton Hinkle in Reason. Obama’s policies in so many areas are just continuations of Bush...
View ArticlePeace can’t wait three more years
Our editorial today is also today’s “talk of the day”: President Obama’s proposal to start phasing out the surge in Afghanistan and continue to turn responsibility for Afghanistan over to the Afghan...
View ArticleCampaign 2012: Obama vs. Bush
“It takes serious chutzpah to suggest, four years later, that the country’s economic difficulty says more about Romney than it does about Obama,” says William Saletan in Slate. Still, he says, what...
View ArticleWhere G.W. Bush won’t be in August
George W. Bush will not be attending the first GOP convention since he left office, says Jim Rutenberg in The New York Times. Rutenberg writes that Bush is maintaining his self-imposed removal from...
View ArticleHistory book gives lesson in fiction
By regurgitating Bush administration policies, a popular 11th-grade history textbook misinforms students and reinforces the erroneous mindset that justified the Patriot Act and America’s invasion of...
View ArticleStep one: Shoot the messenger
The attacks on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden are a textbook example of how administrations neutralize messages they don’t like, writes William Rivers Pitt at Buzzflash. Pitt writes of how he saw the...
View ArticleThe Orwellian present
Our opinion: Revelations about the NSA suggest we’ve crept closer than ever to George Orwell’s dystopia. In the mid-1990s, the National Security Agency wanted to deploy something called the “clipper...
View ArticleNot much better than Bush
Obama was right in saying that there’s no military solution led by the U.S. inside Iraq, writes Amanda Ufheil-Somers for Other Words. “But his Iraq track record doesn’t mark much of an improvement over...
View ArticleIs this any way to treat a president?
The criticism of President George W. Bush in his second term was in many instances “beyond the pale,” writes Michael Smerconish at the Huffington Post. But the treatment of President Barack Obama since...
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