The tag 'George W. Bush' is associated with 5 posts.

FTR #704 Interview with John Loftus

Early 20th cen­tury Rob­ber Barons embraced total­i­tar­ian sys­tems; “Good for Busi­ness”; fas­cism, the Axis pow­ers, World War II, and 9/11 result from this; Obama gov­ern­ing from the cen­ter and tak­ing heat for it.


GOP-Inspired Violence: Business as Usual

Com­ment: Threats against demo­c­ra­tic leg­is­la­tors have become com­mon­place dur­ing the course of the Obama admin­is­tra­tion. It should not come as a sur­prise that a party that enthu­si­as­ti­cally incor­po­rated Nazi war crmi­nals and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood jihadists and ter­ror­ists into its ranks would tac­itly encour­age such prac­tices. In lec­tures  we have exam­ined the para­mil­i­tary right as an [...]


GOP: Unemployment Insurance Bad for Economy

Com­ment: Yearn­ing for the pre-New Deal days, GOP spokes­men have been char­ac­ter­iz­ing unem­ploy­ment insur­ance as being bad for the econ­omy, because it dis­cour­ages peo­ple from seek­ing work! “Polit­i­cal Ani­mal: GOP Still Doesn’t Like Unem­ployed” by Steve Benen; Wash­ing­ton Monthly; 3/8/2010. It’s astound­ing, but in the midst of an unem­ploy­ment cri­sis, promi­nent Repub­li­cans con­tinue to cas­ti­gate those [...]


Grover Norquist’s GOP Jihadists

“Grover Norquist’s Jihad” by Pamela Geller; Amer­i­can Thinker; 3/4/2010. Com­ment: Crit­i­cism of GOP king­pins Grover Norquist and Karl Rove, archi­tects of the Islamic Insti­tute (a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood adjunct to the GOP), has been sparse. A con­tin­u­ing tragedy is that much of that sparse crit­i­cism comes from mem­bers of the con­ser­v­a­tive com­mu­nity who have retained enough [...]


Guess Who Came to Iftar for Dinner?

by Diana West (10/05/07) “ . . . In 2003 and 2004, Pres­i­dent Bush asked Faizul Khan, who is affil­i­ated with the Saudi-funded Islamic Cen­ter of Wash­ing­ton, D.C., and serves on the board of direc­tors of the Islamic Soci­ety of North Amer­ica (ISNA), to give the bless­ing. This year, the Jus­tice Depart­ment offi­cially labeled ISNA [...]