Burning Bush

On Thursday, George W. Bush and former U.S. president Bill Clinton (himself an accomplished war criminal) will be attending the Surrey Regional Economic Summit at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel. Here’s some information from the Canadian Peace Alliance on what you can do to support Bush’s arrest for war crimes. » Report George W. Bush as a person likely to try to enter Canada contrary to section 35 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The Canadian Border Service Agency...Read Full Story

There were quite a few cheers around the country this week when a Chief Judge i the Federal District Court put former President George W. Bush in his place at long last. In sum, the Jurist rejected the Bush administration’s arguments in support of warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists (emphasis on suspected) and found in favor of the plaintiffs that Government agents had put an ear to the wall illegally in respect to a U.S.-based charitable organization. Chief District Court Judge...Read Full Story

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight: From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For...Read Full Story

An explosive new book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist alleges President George W. Bush committed an impeachable offense by ordering the CIA to create a forged document showing a link between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist organization al-Qaeda to create a "false pretense" for war. “The White House had concocted a fake letter from [the director of the Iraqi intelligence service] to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” reporter Ron Suskind writes in his new book, The Way of the World...Read Full Story

George W. Bush (Josh Brolin, far right) with Karl Rove (Toby Jones, second from right), Dick Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss, third from right) and Condoleezza Rice (Thandie Newton, fourth from right) Photo: Lionsgate More questions than answers are brought up with Oliver Stone's W. , and not just in terms of the movie's content, but its creation as well. Why make a movie about George W. Bush and release it only three weeks prior to the election escorting him out of the White House? That's...Read Full Story

Who better than to train women who want to go into politics than former President George W. Bush's press secretary? Dana Perino will help launch Next Step next Thursday, March 4th at Josephine's Lounge in DC (6-8 PM). Rep. Dahlkemper (D-Pa.) will also be speaking. The event is supposed to attract 100 people with media coverage. Next Step, a new bipartisan training program that is part of Running Start, trains younger women 23-27 interested in careers in politics. The first session will be in...Read Full Story

A new exhibit will give the public its first glimpse into the archives of former President George W. Bush, including the bullhorn Bush used when he visited ground zero days after Sept. 11 and the pistol taken from Saddam Hussein when he was captured. "I think they'll really love some of the interesting items like the bullhorn," said Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. "There's such an emotional connection with these objects that I think people will have because...Read Full Story

For the blogging and presenting set, a new fun function from Yahoo Image search: Breakdowns by creative commons permissions. Let’s face it – this never really stopped anyone from re-using content from other sites and especially images – especially in instances where the license wasn’t made especially clear. But, much like iTunes when it first came out, for those interested in following the rules this makes for an easy and relatively painless process…or at least a subtle reminder to people...Read Full Story

Nigerian investigators say they have filed charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and others connected to the energy services company Halliburton, accusing them of paying bribes to secure a lucrative natural gas project in the 1990s. Cheney and nine others are accused of charges that include "conspiracy and distribution of gratification to public officials," Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said Wednesday. continueRead Full Story

Across the street from my office at Standing Dog here in Dallas, the George W. Bush Presidential Library is being built. Today is the big day, and they are having a big ground breaking ceremony. Apparently about 3,000 people are expected to attend. I can see the tents and all the media outside of my office window.Read Full Story