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One day in late spring in the early days of the George W. Bush administration, FDA inspectors visited the headquarters of Sargento cheese in Plymouth, Wisconsin—a routine visit as part of the federal government's efforts to ensure the safety of the food we eat. The inspectors took samples of cheese to test for bacteria. Sargento conducted tests on cheese from the same lot. A week later, the results from both sets of tests were in—the cheese was bacteria-free. Sargento, having gotten the all-clear from the government, shipped the cheese to stores across the country. Two months later, however, the FDA...

Is Obama Trying to Kill President Bush?Posted By Daniel Greenfield On February 2, 2015 @ 12:55 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 7 Comments From Left: Adel Al-Hakeemy and Muhammed Ali Husayn. Ask the White House and itÂ’ll tell you that Al Qaeda is on the run. But it conveniently neglects specifying which direction itÂ’s running in.While Obama and his small army of spokesmen mumble something about degrading and destroying ISIS, his policies pad out the ranks of Al Qaeda and ISIS with experienced recruits released from Gitmo.ItÂ’s still unclear whether there is any Gitmo terrorist that Obama will not...

Gen. Michael Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency, tells NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday that the government's acquisition of phone records and surveillance of Internet activity is lawful and justified by the changing nature of the war on terrorism. Hayden, who served as NSA chief from 1999-2005 and is also a former CIA director, says NSA's activities are "perfectly legal" and "an accurate reflection of balancing our security and our privacy." The program of gathering phone record metadata, first detailed in The Guardian newspaper last week, is analogous to collecting the haystack in case you should suddenly need...

MIAMI – When the empire strikes back, it hits hard. The Republican establishment is deploying every weapon and every soldier – even Bob Dole – in an increasingly desperate attempt to pulverize the Newt Gingrich rebellion. Eventually, the shock-and-awe campaign may work. But then what? In the establishment’s best-case scenario, the party is left with Mitt Romney, a candidate whose core message, as far as I can tell, seems to be: “Yes, I made a ton of money. You got a problem with that?” It is remarkable that the well-orchestrated blitzkrieg to save Florida for Romney was designed solely to...

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New from Naked Emperor, Obama in 2005 telling Bush and the Republicans to step back from privatizing Social Security when their poll numbers dropped...

If we are victorious, I wonder if these same people will give Bush the credit, here's the inside of the CNN/Opinion Dynamics poll released yesterday...

Shocking hypocrisy audio found. The audio is from 2004. Goose, gander, and the people be damned.

Obama all of a sudden leaves the door open by way of Eric Holder on going after the Bush Adm., the change could come because this Messiah doesn't like people touching his Halo, which is exactly what Cheney did on Hannity last night.

As our rough economy slouches toward bankruptcy, everyone's passing the buck. AIG. Citigroup. Jeremy Siegel. And now, weirdly, so is George W. Bush's biography at Whitehouse.gov. Notably, in the original: President Bush worked with the Congress to create an ownership society and build a future of security, prosperity, and opportunity for all Americans. In the new version: President Bush has worked to extend freedom, opportunity, and security at home and abroad.

President Obama’s administration is moving aggressively to protect what the government insists are “state secrets” from a Bush-era wiretapping program. Justice Department lawyers filed an emergency motion Friday with a federal appeals court in an effort to block a lower court’s order that the government must show lawyers for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation a copy of a document indicating that the group’s communications were being intercepted. The document has been the subject of a running legal battle since the papers were accidentally sent to attorneys for the group in 2004 and subsequently retrieved. “Disclosure of the material at issue here...

With a call for 'relentless' diplomacy, Hillary further obliterates W's legacy. After Inauguration Day, departed presidents usually become footnotes pretty quickly. What we are witnessing now is far more dramatic. It's closer to a liquidation, or a cauterization. George W. Bush is being turned into an unperson, like a character out of Orwell. It's been only two days, and there is scarcely a trace of not only his personal presence, but of his policies. Or at least that is the impression Barack Obama would like to convey. The process of erasing the last eight years from American history began with...

U.S. President George W. Bush lashed out Thursday at those who would negotiate with "terrorists," calling the approach comparable to the "appeasement" of Adolf Hitler before the Second World War, comments that were perceived as a personal attack by Senator Barack Obama. "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said in a speech to Israel's parliament as part of the country's 60th anniversary celebrations. No names were mentioned, but it was widely seen as a criticism of Democratic presidential nomination front-runner...