Tag: BUSH

A week after emerging from his ranch and joining the world of social networking, former President George W. Bush has finally graced us with his 'inaugural address' on Facebook. In a brief video address, Dubya puts our hearts at ease by telling us that he and Laura are in excellent health, and then takes some time to plug his new book, which he's been "writing" since he left office and rode off to ...

Among the many controversial policies enacted under the George W. Bush administration, perhaps the most legally nebulous was the National Security Agency's wiretapping program, which authorized federal agents to monitor Americans' phone calls and e-mails in the name of national security. When it was revealed that federal officials had been monitoring the phone calls of the now defunct Islamic ...

Remember all those missing Bush Administration e-mails--from the time period surrounding the beginning of the Iraq war and the leak of Valerie Plame's status as a CIA operative? After much haranguing, the former president's team has preserved its right to keep the documents secret. A federal appeals court denied a Freedom of Information Act request from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in ...

Watch more YouTube videos on AOL Video Last week, the First Family issued its annual White House Holiday video, complete with appearances by Olympics Gold medalists Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin. The Bushes' selection of the Olympics as this year's theme struck us as a tad bizarre at first. Certainly, many folks in the U.S. adore gold medalists Phelps and Liukin, but really, what in the ...

Dirty tricks used to mislead voters and keep them away from the polls, but new Web-centric attempts to disenfranchise voters are stoking fears amongst voters and activists. In the past, political trickery has relied on phone calls, fliers, and direct mailing, which are much easier to track and prosecute than the new wave of political scare tactics. Traditional calls, like the push polls in 2000 ...

Remember all those e-mails that went missing at the White House? The Bush administration is hoping you don't. According to an internal memo leaked to the Associate Press (AP) the government is pushing forward with its recovery "effort" the only way it knows how -- completely half-assed. According to the memo, the White House is missing as much as 225 days worth of e-mail that just so happen to ...

The White House is no stranger to controversy surrounding lost e-mail, but the latest bit of information might be the most shocking yet. Following a court ruling, the Bush administration must institute a recovery plan to restore what U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola fears may be large volumes of missing communications from 2003 to 2005. In an effort to deter the court from pushing forward with ...

Just last week it was revealed that the group that perpetrated the cyber-attacks on Estonian networks, escalating the already high tension between that nation and its neighbor Russia, wasn't really a group at all. It was a 20-year-old hacker from within Estonia itself. That revelation was a bit of a wake-up call for the global community -- that a strong-minded individual could create an ...

When you ponder the phrase "Real American," what do you think of? (Other than the various Bud Lite radio commercials, that is.) Chances are, if you're a politician at least, "Real American" equates to blue collar rural farmer or the like. However, an interesting statistics-riddled post helps to shed a little light on just how far off base that notion is. According to the piece at Kung Fu Monkey, ...

Believe it or not, President George "Dubya" Bush turns 61 years young today. And just in case one of his pals/cronies is stuck on what to buy him, we've made a few suggestions. Franklin's Speaking Language Master One bit of information that we picked up early in the president's career -- he's not too proficient with his native English language. Sure, it makes for good late night TV jokes, ...

President Bush's recent visit to Albania was met with much fanfare, love, and ... petty theft. Bush wasn't met with any anti-American protests, but unfortunately he did run into a pickpocket who grabbed his watch during what appears to have been an otherwise warm reception. Watch the video, and pay special attention around 0:55 -- you'll notice that his presumably expensive watch disappears into ...