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A former White House speechwriter, Mark Thiessen, has jumped to the defense of his former boss, writing for the Washington Post that George W. Bush “established a conservative record without parallel.” Even by the loose standards of Washington, that is a jaw-dropping assertion. I’ve been explaining for years that Bush was a big-government advocate, even writing a column back in 2007 for the Washington Examiner pointing out that Clinton had a much better economic record from a free-market perspective. I also groused to the Wall Street Journal the following year about Bush’s dismal performance. “Bush doesn’t have a conservative legacy”...

Mr. Bush's misguided terrorism policy has also ignored other immediate dangers facing America. Despite Mr. Bush's single-minded desire to "fight terrorists over there" to keep them from "attacking us here", domestic terrorism has now become the greatest threat facing our nation, according to a recent NYPD report. These homegrown terrorists, like John Walker Lindh, Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber and Seung Hui-Cho, are not the product of backward Arab regimes lacking Democracy, but are products of the greatest Democracy in the world, the United States of America. Worst of all, these terrorists know our infrastructure, people, and they fit right in...