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  • George H.W. Bush upgraded to 'near-great' president

    By Paul Bedard | 05/29/13 09:15 AM

    He was booted from office in a three-way contest won by Bill Clinton in 1992, but former President George H.W. Bush is headed for "near-great" status based on his foreign policy successes, according to a presidential scholar who runs the LBJ library. "You're seeing George H.W. Bush's...

  • BBQ warning: Feds find feces, cockroachs, flies littering hog processing plants

    By Paul Bedard | 05/28/13 05:50 PM

    Federal food inspectors at many of the nation's swine slaughterhouses fail to do their job and let repeat offenders continue to produce potentially contaminated meat without punishment, raising a "higher risk of providing pork for human consumption that should not enter the food supply,"...

  • Dodd: Fix Congress by forcing members to stay in Washington

    By Paul Bedard | 05/28/13 05:10 PM

    Former Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., credited with pushing through major bipartisan legislation during his 36-year career, is urging an end to the limitless taxpayer-funded trips home for House and Senate members, calling it a key step in repairing politically divided Washington. "You got elected...

  • Mainstream Media Scream: Matthews calls Ted Cruz 'face of the wild, nasty hard-right fringe'

    By Paul Bedard | 05/28/13 12:20 PM

    This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews denouncing Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Matthews ended his show Friday by saying, "Let me finish tonight with this: Ted Cruz of Texas is a disaster, not least for the party that ran him for the Senate. He...

  • White House: Obama loves Chris Christie

    By Paul Bedard | 05/28/13 11:55 AM

    The love-in between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and President Obama continues, with the White House on Tuesday praising the Republican's efforts to repair the Jersey Shore hit by last fall's Hurricane Sandy. "On Gov. Christie, [spokesman Jay] Carney said POTUS thinks he has done an...

  • Report: Press threw Helen Thomas under bus to save its reputation

    By Paul Bedard | 05/27/13 09:30 AM

    The White House press corps was so worried about their reputation when veteran reporter Helen Thomas ranted against Jews in 2010 that they quickly moved to discredit her journalistic creds and personally attacked her as crazy in a bid to save themselves, according to a new journalism school...

  • Bowhunters claim Obama is targeting them, too

    By Paul Bedard | 05/27/13 09:25 AM

    As the White House strategizes on a new scheme to pass gun control, bowhunters are joining gun defenders, claiming that they are President Obama's next target. The sport's bible, Bowhunter magazine, is calling on bow and arrow hunters to join Second Amendment advocates to stop gun control,...

  • Zogby's Obama report card: President loses his reelection mandate

    By Paul Bedard | 05/24/13 01:00 PM

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has partially crawled out of his scandal-filled hole. "This would be a perfect week for your humble pollster from Utica, N.Y. to take a vacation, since my grade will clearly anger half of D.C. As I suggested...

  • Rand Paul raps Obama's 'flash cards and PowerPoint' drone defense

    By Paul Bedard | 05/23/13 04:30 PM

    Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who led the filibuster decrying President Obama's policy of using drones to strike American terrorists, still has doubts about the president's drone policy despite Obama's full-throated explanation of it Thursday at National Defense University in...

  • Harvard's Nye: On world stage, Obama no match for George H.W. Bush

    By Paul Bedard | 05/23/13 04:15 PM

    President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In his upcoming book "Presidential Leadership...


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