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...odds are reasonable that Gregg came by his high office the same way that John Quincy Adams and George Bush did. Gregg's father was the governor of New Hampshire in the mid-1950s. Judd held the same job little more than three decades later and then was elected to the US Senate. His own accomplishments are so modest that he lists the "Legislative Recognition Award" from the American Ambulance Association as an important milestone on his CV. Gregg's contribution to the debate about the federal budget is a statement he made on CNN's State of the Union...
...Scientific staff in the George W. Bush-era EPA found that CO2 is a pollutant, but then administrator Stephen Johnson rejected the recommendation and delayed the process of regulating it, part of the Bush Administration's general obstructionism on climate change. When Lisa Jackson took over the EPA under the new President, however, she told Congress that one of her first acts would be to reevaluate her predecessor's decision, and she didn't drag her feet. "It's an exercise in leadership that takes the first step in regulating CO2 emissions from automobiles," says John Walke, the clean...
...Healing a National Wound Senator Patrick Leahy's advocacy for a truth commission, charged with uncovering facts about alleged torture and civil-liberties abuses by the Bush Administration, is warranted [March 2]. Despite all that is right about our country, it is painfully clear that we tend to set aside the moral and ethical breaches in our history. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid was designed to encourage a national catharsis of a shameful past. Most agree that the effort was worthwhile. Some would say there can be no forgiveness without...
...idea of a truth-finding panel is an excellent one, but it would help our understanding to study whether the torture and other alleged illegal activities actually prevented terrorist attacks. I think Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were violating the law and the Constitution but sincerely believed this was necessary to protect the American people. Was it? Investigating this issue might vindicate them. It also might not. Sara Brown, Clinton...
...Bush, George W. • book about a dozen of the Decider's decisions will carry the byline of, "so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened...