Dick Cheney News

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times; it's January 1, 2009. As I write this, a song from Harburg and Arlen's score for "The Wizard of Oz" is running through my head.

It was the bow that launched a thousand blog posts. But while conservative commentators complained that President Obama should not have bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito last week during his inaugural presidential trip to Asia, experts on protocol say the president's real faux pas came when he combined the bow with a handshake, a breach of Japanese ...

Karl Rove's memoir has a title, "Courage and Consequence," and a release date - March 9. Rove, the mastermind behind George W. Bush's two successful presidential runs and a top White House aide, signed in 2007 with Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster that has published best sellers by commentators Glenn Beck and Mark ...

On Friday night's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, MSNBC host Matthews took a page out of Dick Cheney's book and accused the president of "dithering" over Afghanistan.

The low-road way to begin telling you about the Dick Cheney-Kay Bailey Hutchison event would involve a cheap metaphor linking Cheney's comebacks from life-threatening health conditions and Hutchison's hope that her gubernatorial campaign can do the same thing.

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark -- the onetime Democratic candidate for president -- told Congress Tuesday in little-reported remarks that the United States should begin planning for an exit from Afghanistan, breaking ranks with Obama's current Afghan commander Gen.

Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not falling for her "fearmongering" -- and say they want Gitmo detainees in their town.

Man did Joe Scarborough drink himself a heavy dose of Cheney Kool-Aid before this Monday's show.

The American right has worked itself into a lather over Obama's bow to Japan's emperor.

U.S. soldiers on patrol near the town of Pul-i-alam, Logar province, Afghanistan, Nov.

The official American attitude toward the king of England, and by extension royalty generally, is in the Declaration of Independence, the less-read part after the famous first two paragraphs.

The Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan led to 11 years of destruction and carnage.

In the early stages of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, eight names are mentioned most frequently : Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Dick Cheney.

The Nobel Peace crown lies uneasy on President Barack Obama's head as he ponders the next U.S. move in Afghanistan, with hints and leaks showering down to tell us that he will eventually send thousands more troops there.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney has delivered a baby girl.

'A frank account of what I witnessed' CBC News Karl Rove, shown in August 2007 when he was White House deputy chief of staff, will release a memoir in March.

Sen. John Kerry's campaign has a new, unofficial strategy: To get even, get mad.

In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney told the American people that all the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were "bad people." Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld told the American people in 2002 that Gitmo would hold "the worst of the worst." And President Bush spent millions in taxpayer money to stop the detainees from getting their day in ...

The GOP has officially declared its 2010 resurgence, and why not? This is as good a time as any.

Over the weekend I reported on New Hampshire radio host and blogger Doug Lambert , who directed a vicious homophobic diatribe at gay New Hampshire Party Chair Ray Buckley into a web stream at the end of his show.