Connecting.the.Dots

With a decade of rehearsal, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have their act down pat--the regular guy who never raises his voice and his hair-...

Life after the White House is always problematic for former occupants. Jimmy Carter devoted himself to hammering up houses for poor people a...

Nobody threw shoes (or rice either) at his farewell press conference this morning, but George W. Bush was blowing kisses at the assembled r...

Over two years and 2000 posts ago, George W. Bush made a blogger out of me. I was coasting along in octogenarian ease, writing an occasional...

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." That, in a nutshell, is George W. Bush's valedictory thought about in...

Andrew Sullivan cites her for commentary "that knocks your socks off," but with the restraint more seemly for age, I just tip my ...

George W. Bush's political epitaph will read: "From first to last, he scared the hell out of the American people." Starting wi...

As a lame duck president announces a minuscule withdrawal of several thousand troops out of more than 140,000 by next March, the rising sui...

The candidate's faith in a Higher Power must be stronger today with news that Hurricane Gustav will keep George W. Bush from raining on...

After Barack Obama or John McCain leaves the White House, where will future generations go to tour the boyhood home that shaped a president?...

The impending sale of Anheuser-Busch, brewer of Budweiser, to a Belgian conglomerate will make Cindy McCain much richer than she already is ...

Now that Jesse Jackson has reassured us about Barack Obama's genitals, it's time to consider what prompted the Reverend's rage-...

Barack Obama is promising Americans another faith-based presidency but asking us to trust him not to pervert it, as George W. Bush did, ...

In an era of information and ideas moving at the speed of light, the rehabilitation has begun on both sides of the Atlantic. Over here, Davi...

In the annals of presidential crime, George W. Bush is setting records again, this time violating a law he signed into existence less than ...

The keyboard keys are soggy with tears at the thought of no more Bushes in our national life after almost three decades, but George W. and L...

The Republican nominee disclosed his heart's desire today. "I am intrigued by a man on Mars and I think that it would excite the im...

Unredeemable as his tenure may seem, George W. Bush could leave office on a high note with, to borrow his cowboy terminology, Osama bin Lade...

Returning from World War II, my generation was welcomed home with open arms, gratitude and a GI Bill to pay for our college education. For i...

Anyone looking for a new definition of "obscenity" should consult George W. Bush's remarks today at the 60th anniversary cele...