One of China's most prominent Christian dissidents, Yu Jie, has gone into exile to the United States after he said he was tortured in a crackdown on dissent, he told Reuters on Friday.
President Barack Obama's campaign raised $42 million in the final three months of 2011, besting his Republican rivals and matching where President George W. Bush was at the same point in his re-election bid.
President Barack Obama's campaign raised $42 million in the final three months of 2011, besting his Republican rivals and matching where President George W. Bush was at the same point in his re-election bid.Source : Denver PostExplore : US
... two-Canadian province water management agreement ratified by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush. * Political advice from Wisconsin leader John Torinus, a former Milwaukee Sentinel business editor who sits on the board of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. * Hundreds of citizen opponents who turned out at public hearings, on short notice, in Milwaukee and Hurley. *...Source : The Political Environment
President Barack Obama hauled in more than $68 million for his campaign and the Democratic Party during the final three months of 2011, a show of force that allows him to compete - for now at least - in the new reality of freewheeling outside political groups.
... and assaults on programs for the poor and middle class worsened inequality during the years of George W. Bush. The answer is not more of the same failed policies. The solution is to revive the successful ones, along with policies to stimulate the economy and stop foreclosures. Mr. Obama understands this. The Republican hopefuls are deluding themselves and trying to delude the...Source : The Liberal Curmudgeon
The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, "lie their way into invading Iraq" in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remarkable how many of these ...
TEN YEARS HAVE passed since terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In that period, America has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, carried out hundreds armed drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen (among other locations), and conducted covert operations around the world, all in the name of what President George W. Bush termed the...Source : Red State
... in the immediate aftermath of Wall Street’s destruction of Main Street. Not Ronald Reagan and not George W. Bush ever had to sell the American people on the argument that it was necessary for thousands of American families to be economically ruined to improve corporate and shareholder profits, again purportedly for the betterment of us all. Barack Obama will have no problem...
... complex. It is these contradictions that have made it so hard for me to embrace someone like George W. Bush or Mitt Romney. The fact that Ron Paul is not only on the scene, but more popular than ever and becoming a respected elder statesman before our very eyes, is a beautiful thing for liberty.Source : The Bipartisan Rules
