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POLITICS / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 11:50am neoform

FOX News -- Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy. The criticism from Carter, which a biographer sa.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

MSNBC -- Even if he wins, the important presidencies are the ones that change the country and its politics, said David Blight of Yale. A President Obama's place in history "would depend so much on whether he truly can develop a new coalition" that creates a new po.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 29, 2007 @ 5:49pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The case appeared to be open and shut. The county sheriff had been caught selling an illegal whiskey still from the back of the county jail. The buyers were a federal informant and an undercover federal investigator. The sheriff, to elude honest police.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jul 27, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

Washington Post -- On a hillside an hour or so southwest of Capitol Hill, the Library of Congress is moving into the newly completed home for its mammoth collection of U.S. recording and film history. There are 6.3 million items in all: footage of Charlie Chaplin's totte.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Sen. Hillary Clinton is "very much a camouflaged woman" whose rewriting of her own history has created an inauthenticity that could be "problematic" for her presidential campaign, the author of her new biography said. Carl Bernstein, who rocketed to fa.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Sun May 27, 2007 @ 5:29am neoform

Alter Net -- Rep. Jim McDermott rescues some history from the Memoryhole and puts Iraq into context: It's always been all about the oil. Editor's note: After a week that saw Democrats cave to the White House in the worst possible way on Iraq, we thought this speech.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon May 21, 2007 @ 11:37pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Former US president Jimmy Carter unleashed a torrent of criticism against George Bush and Tony Blair over the weekend, in which he accused the Bush presidency of being the "worst in history" and said Mr Blair's support had been abominable and subservient... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 7:30pm neoform

USA Today -- Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy. The criticism from Carter, which a biographer sa.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:37pm neoform

Alter Net -- Alberto Gonzales, the first Latino Attorney General in U.S. history, was once endorsed by leading Latino organizations. Those same organizations now remain silent in the midst of the U.S. attorney scandal. The recent scandal involving the firing of eig.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon Feb 19, 2007 @ 10:13am mrmdc

Alter Net -- Buchanan, Harding, Nixon, Dubya ...? Much more fun than your high school History class, this year's President's Day tribute is to the very worst of them. A question that seems to be on everybody's mind these days turns out to be: Is George Bush the wor.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 10:30am mrmdc

News Blaze -- Intercollegiate Studies Institute Research Shows that College Students Educated in History, Government and Economics are More Likely to Vote.. Read More