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Conservatives and critics of hyperbolic comparisons blasted a political journalist Monday night after the Huffington Post correspondent claimed the January 6 riots were 1,000 percent worse than the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. White House reporter S.V. Dáte responded Monday to tweets from conservative author Byron York, who ridiculed any comparisons between the deadly U.S. Capitol riots and the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago. Dáte was one of many who suggested the January 6 insurrection was much worse than 9/11 because it was an attack on democracy led by a U.S. president, at the time Donald Trump. The journalist was...

Former Clinton communications director-turned-ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos charged Monday that President Bush deliberately hyped intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear threat that he knew wasn't true. "There's no question that the administration hyped the nuclear program," Stephanopoulos told radio host Don Imus. "Especially when they go out and say, you know, there could be a mushroom cloud coming from Iraq." "They knew better than that," the one-time top Clinton aide declared. In a nationally televised address on Oct 7, 2002, President Bush warned of "the threat gathering against us" from Iraq, adding: "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot...

Make no bones about it: I am a liberal who believes that guns in themselves are not evil. Are you shocked? You shouldn’t be. Some conservatives like to present the cliché counterargument that “guns don’t kill people; people kill people in debates about gun control. However, the question still remains: Exactly what argument do they think they are countering? It is not the “liberal stance” that guns in themselves have the ability to kill people and are evil. In fact, anyone who believes this nonsense, liberal or conservative, is just plain dumb. In fact, I – and most intelligent people...

Gov. Bush Makes Gaffe While on Business Trip to SpainThe Associated PressPublished: Feb 17, 2003MADRID, Spain (AP) - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, on a business trip to Spain, made at least one big gaffe when he met local businessmen: calling Spain a republic when it is a constitutional monarchy with King Juan Carlos as the head of state. "I want to thank the president of the Republic of Spain for his friendship with the United States. I know this is a difficult situation in the short term," Bush said in Spanish about Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Spain has not...