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Government-funded health database blocked ‘abortion’ records

By Andy Birkey | 04.09.08 | 2:15 pm

The world’s largest database on reproductive health, Popline, a search engine run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, blocked any searches for the term…

Iraq War turns five, is angry no one understands it

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.19.08 | 12:10 pm

It had to happen: The fumbled invasion of Iraq has eventually turned into a five-year-old war made up of mistakes and misleading information. Today, on the anniversary of the invasion, it’s still a petulant and fully loaded child: The majority…

Bush’s glee-club moment

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.14.08 | 8:55 am

Despite historic low opinion ratings, a bungled war in Iraq and the country on the verge of recession, George W. Bush remains giddy as all get-out. The guy who graced journalists with a soft-shoe jig last week and…

Who said it?

By Dan Haugen | 03.12.08 | 8:19 am

“Let me start first by telling you that America has got to change its habits. We’ve got to get off oil. And the reason why is, first, oil is — dependency on oil presents a real challenge to our economy.…

Minnesota’s reps agree: Bush budget is bad news

By Andy Birkey | 02.11.08 | 10:36 am

President Bush released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 last Monday (you might have missed it with Super Duper Tuesday the following day), and not very many people are happy with what it contains. Minnesota’s…

Power Line and the Pipeline: Bush Confidant Touts Blog’s Ability to “Regurgitate Exactly”

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.07.07 | 6:19 pm

While former Bush advisor Dan Bartlett says he “probably got more complaints” from Fox News staffers about “not getting the type of access they deserved,” Bush’s longest-serving aide and closest confidant tells Texas Monthly who he was perfectly happy to…

Bush’s Clintonian Parsing

By Eric Black | 12.07.07 | 8:36 am

Bush_Cheney.jpgAs I see people compiling lists of things President Bush and Vice President Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted…

On Vetoes, Iran and World War III: Bush’s Press Conference

By Eric Black | 12.04.07 | 10:57 am

presidentbushviathedailymirror.jpgPresident Bush seems to be saying that yesterday’s big news that U.S. intelligence now believes Iran is not actively developing a nuclear bomb doesn’t affect his policy. I didn’t hear anything specific that might signal whether the…

Oberstar to Bush: Support Funding for Bridge Fixing. Bush to Oberstar: Fix the Earmark Issue First

By Eric Black | 08.10.07 | 11:40 am

Cross-posted from Eric Black Ink

opberstar240527_2_239.jpgOK, President Bush and U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar didn’t directly address these comments to one another, but they might as well have, and although Bush’s complaints about congressional pork projects may have…

Bridge Hero Says ‘Nope’ to Bush Photo-Op

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.09.07 | 6:46 am

Hernandez declines Bush photo: Somebody who saves 50 kids from a school bus teetering on the edge of a collapsed highway is a bona fide hero, and Jeremy Hernandez deserves the media attention