Dick Cheney News

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- In 1940, believing that "God Bless America" was too passive an anthem, the great folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote an answer called " Your Land." Pete Seeger, God bless him, sang it at the Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.

If you missed Robert Collins' excellent Soapbox 'Learn lessons from wars,' please see the Feb.

Every day I return home from the daily grind to turn on the television and watch my recorded programs.

"I am a West Virginia born/educated lawyer now practicing in West Palm Beach. WV gets a lot of bad raps, some deserved, some not.

At the same time, as a reporter for Vermont Business Magazine, I have never run out of creative and successful entrepreneurs to profile.

The former members of the Bush administration and their conservative apologists want to give George W. Bush all the credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and the capture of a substantial amount of his operational data on May 1. It's sad to watch.

Prominent neoconservative John R. Bolton and others intend to return to power by endorsing moderate Republican flip-flopper Willard Mitt Romney for president.

Gold star mom antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan wears a t-shirt that says "2,245 Dead.

The former Vice President has sought out and been interviewed by more tv journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president.

There was no question who was behind it. Intelligence sources twice briefed President George W. Bush about it.

Pakistan prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani debuted in the United States at time when his nation is seen as pivotal in a number of arenas impacting regional and world security and particularly the War in Iraq and relations with Iran and al-Qaeda's Osama bin-Laden. Meeting with leading U.S. think tanks and thinkers, he parried key questions ... (more)

Republicans looking to take back the White House in November face a challenging political environment, a trio of conservative political observers said Thursday at an annual gathering of conservative activists.

In a brisk, thoroughly reported narrative, Mr. Bishara traces decades of the social and political struggle of the nameless, invisible Arabs who dreamed and then willed the revolutions we have come to know as the Arab Spring.

Folks, I've got some good news and some bad news about the nation's ever-elusive quest for a sound energy policy.

CPAC excitement, Wolf Blitzer's "OMG!" and a strange polling result are featured in the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt : Hmmm : "Almost 30 percent could not accurately identify who the current vice president - Joe Biden - is.

Foreign policy under Obama is not much different from what we would have expected had Bush stayed for a third term.

The corruption scandals, Troopergate, her musings on how to ban library books, the moose slaughter, the drill-baby-drill, the creationist stupidity, the pregnant underage daughter and the acceptance of statutory rape as a marriage-brokering tool, the bridge to nowhere and all the rest of it - including the story on the front page of the New York ... (more)

You taught us that "deficits don't matter." You sold missiles to the terrorist-sponsoring mullahs in Iran so you could sponsor our own priest-slaughtering terrorists in Central America, thereby laying the groundwork for all the secret deceptions in foreign policy that led to the Iraq war, which was designed and launched by some of your own old ... (more)

A Washington Post poll found that 83 percent of Americans approved of the U.S. government's use of flying robots to kill terror suspects overseas, while 65 percent found no fault even if those targeted were American citizens.

Reading The Washington Post piece today on the decision-making process at Komen that led to the cut-off of Planned Parenthood, I was struck by the similarities of this story to the Bush administration's efforts to "shape" intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.