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At his final rallies, Barack Obama is gleefully telling crowds that Dick Cheney's endorsement this weekend of John McCain was well-earne...

On Monday morning, when the future of the American Dream was teetering under the Capitol dome, George W. Bush was in the East Room of the Wh...

The cleanup crews are at work on Wall Street, President Bush cancels a fund-raising trip to cheer on his mop-up gang in Washington and, bar...

As the only president eligible for the Witness Protection Program, George W. Bush will start practicing his post-White House demeanor with a...

Behind the media popcorn of Scott McClellan's revelations, relatively unnoticed is a new book by the former American commander in Iraq t...

Before his five-day Middle East tour of lame-duck quacking on Israel's 60th birthday and to hold hands with Saudi Arabia's gas-pric...

Muqtada al Sadr is splintering the peace in Baghdad and Basra, militias are murdering and looting, but our toy soldier President is still o...

Milestones are news--the fifth anniversary, the 4000th death--and news shield us, as any drug does, from the pain of reality. We swallow som...

Political chaos in Pakistan could bring nuclear headaches for the US, and what our government is doing to prop up a failing regime recalls ...

A new series , "In Treatment," is trying to do for psychotherapy what "The Sopranos" did for organized crime. But from t...

George W. Bush certified John McCain as a "true conservative" yesterday. In emeritus mode on Fox News, the President told Chris ...

In last night's Theater of the Absurd, a Lame Duck is quacking at the podium while the ducklings-in-waiting look on, pretending to liste...

The British have a solution to their health care crisis--cut off the undeserving sick and send the old off on ice floes the way Eskimos did ...

The bipartisan smiles in Washington signify that the President and Congress have agreed to give the economy a $150 billion jolt, less than ...

It took two kinds of stupidity to get us into the war--the Bush-Cheney Neo-Con brand and Saddam Hussein's. We get a closer look at the l...

Did it take a thousand untruths to get us into Iraq? Not quite. According to a new study by two non-profit journalism organizations, "...

As Democratic candidates make promises to voters about troop withdrawal, George W. Bush is in the Middle East trying to tie the hands of his...

Vice-President Dick Cheney is under sedation after what sources describe as "a medical incident" earlier this week following repor...

The man who set the theme for this year's election is off to the Middle East today on a quest to salvage something there, after concedi...

The good news is that our President will be elsewhere much of next year, giving him less time in Washington to start disastrous wars and sub...