Dick Cheney News

Help me out here. Are we supposed to be shocked and outraged and think that our politics has sunk to a new low because Gabriel Gomez has called Ed Markey "pond scum"? Isn't that unconscionable? Shouldn't Gomez be ashamed? And forced to apologize? My answers are no, no and no.

You may say that I'm a dreamer, but this hateful and unconstitutional amendment to the already-gratuitous Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013 proposed by Rep.

When I saw that President Obama had decided to nominate Victoria Nuland as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs that struck me as a pretty frontal ' There is no Benghazi scandal; get over it ' to Senate Republicans.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland arrives to listen to Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speak to the press at the State Department in Washington on Feb.

The most striking thing about President Obama's speech on counter-terrorism yesterday was his eagerness to end the "global war on terror" and redefine it as a series of smaller-scale skirmishes.

During an early morning interview for new movie " Now You See Me ," Morgan Freeman appeared to be a little sleepy .

With those words Wednesday, the South London attacker with blood-soaked hands did us the favor of reminding us what we are up against.

Congress is greatly concerned that some men who never served in their nation's armed forces will go around pretending to have been in combat.

We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans.

Thought experiment: Rip Van Winkle falls asleep sometime around George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech and wakes up in early March.

For a civilized country in the 21st century, the use of torture should not be a matter of public debate.

Government Secrets Past and Present by LYDIA HOWELL The CIA just released what was referred to as the 'Family Jewels,' documents of how the spy agency violated its ban against spying on Americans, in the 1960s and '70s. Dick Cheney is resisting a subpoena from the Senate Judicial Committee to turn over documents related to Bush's secret program of ... (more)

There are plenty of voices from both the right and the left chiming in with nothing short of dismay concerning the Obama administration's increasingly apparent willingness to use their muscle to try and intimidate and/or punish any supposed threats to their oh-so-cozy bureaucratic outfit - and while some of those voices are certainly more ... (more)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told 1,500 Acadian Ambulance employees and guests at the 2013 Paramedic of the Year Luncheon on Wednesday that it was fitting he was speaker for an event featuring medical first responders.

Roughly 1500 people packed the Lafayette Convention Center to honor Acadian Ambulance Service paramedics.

Media people receive vast amounts of emails everyday. Many are useless story pitches and press releases from undiscriminating publicists.

It's simple math: When your loved one is the organ donor, transplant surgery means agony for you, joy for the family on the other side.

Within days of the September 11 2001 attacks it was clear that the Bush administration would exploit the terrorist attacks to push for war on Afghanistan and Iraq.

Last week on Twitter I lamented the simplistic public discourse on climate change, how it's often framed by those who dismiss the legitimate concerns of a warming planet and those who play up those concerns.

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago at the beginning of the twenty first century there lived a great ruler named George Bush who had two trusted assistants named Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.