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Krauthammer: Obama, Bush, and the torture show trials

By Jim Vicevich / April 22, 2009 /

When the young President changed his mind in less than 48 hours in regard to prosecuting lawyers and Bush Administration officials who authorized enhanced interrogation techniques, it caused confusion even among the White House Press Corps (no jokes please). So why, after sending out your chief of staff on Sunday and your press secretary on Monday, to make…

Don’t expect the media to be unbiased

By Steve McGough / August 28, 2009 /

On O’Rielly’s program the other day, Bernard Goldberg reminded us that Accuracy in Media reported – with little fan-fair years ago – that CBS producer Mary Mapes knew President Bush (43) had volunteered to go to Vietnam with his Texas Air Guard unit, a fact Mapes and Dan Rather left completely out of the story…

Torture memos: NOT a dark and painful chapter in our history

By Steve McGough / April 17, 2009 /

Twenty-four hours have passed since the so-called torture memos have been released and as I expected, it’s not a story that has gone viral. Plenty of coverage, but not oh-my-God kind of coverage.

24 … in real life

By Jim Vicevich / January 11, 2009 /

I’ll have more to say on this tomorrow. George W. Bush responding to a question from Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday today … would the nation be in danger if the next president did not have all interrogation tools at his disposal? The president’s answer is critical and I think Obama understands this already.…

The Prosecutor In Chief?

By Jim Vicevich / January 11, 2009 /

It does not surpirse me this is the AFP’s headline … US President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday he was not ruling out possible prosecution for abuses committed under the George Bush administration, saying no one “is above the law”. “We’re still evaluating how we’re going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so…

Heros don’t spike the football

By Steve McGough / May 2, 2012 /

As a companion piece to my post earlier concerning the special forces community, Jim Geraghty points us over to a Facebook post with video at Veterans for a Strong America.

Miss me yet? From PowerlineBlog.com UPDATE: Video

By Jim Vicevich / February 9, 2010 /

President Bush has remained characteristically quiet during President Obama’s first term. It used to be the norm and is demonstrative of his class. This despite the constant whacks the young President has been taking at his predecessor, apparently in the name of deflecting criticism and bolstering his falling poll numbers.

The plot to destroy American capitalism

By Jim Vicevich / May 14, 2009 /

I am not sure I can say anything about this right now. Suffice it say they were all in on it. McCain, Obama and of course the man on the inside, Hank Paulson …

Federal court order results in release of Bush interrogation memos

By Steve McGough / April 16, 2009 /

The Obama administration will release interrogation memos written by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel lawyers during President George W. Bush’s administration. A federal court required the Obama administration to release them or to provide a good reason to withhold them in response to an ACLU lawsuit. My guess is that the documents may drop…

Compassionate conservatism equaled big government

By Steve McGough / November 7, 2008 /

We all knew it. Bush 43 tried to define his presidency by bringing new tone to Washington D.C., and called his politics compassionate conservatism. By reaching across the aisle and letting Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) write the No Child Left Behind in 2001, propping up the U.S. steel industry with tariffs in 2002, and dishing out…