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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)

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State of the Union, 2004

• Bush's speech silent on some subjects
  Terence Hunt, Associated Press (in the Detroit News), 24 January 2004
• Fact-checking the State of the Union address
  Center for American Progress, 20 January 2004
• State of the Union Address Falls Flat
  Truthout, 22 January 2004

State of the Union, 2003

• Bush's SOTU speech signaled the end of rule of law
  Craig Barnes, Denver Post (in The Smirking Chimp), 23 February 2003
• Responses to Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address
  From the Institute for Public Accuracy
• Institute for Public Accuracy
  A nationwide consortium of policy researchers that seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks and other influential institutions
• The Real State of the Union
  Reports (in PDF format) from the Democratic National Committee
• A Dr. Seussian Response To The State Of The Union
  Rense.com, 29 January 2003
• Bait and Switch
  Bob Herbert, New York Times, 30 January 2003
• Don’t Call It 'Conservative'
  John Moyers,TomPaine.com (in CommonDreams), 29 January 2003
• Reading between Bush's lips
  David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 January 2003
• I beg to differ: The American emperor has no clothes
  Paul Knox, Toronto Globe & Mail, 29 January 2003
• We-can-have-it-all tone unseemly as war looms
  Walter Shapiro, USA Today, 29 January 2003
• Bush Pushes Conservative Social Agenda
  Amy Goldstein and Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post, 29 January 2003
• On America's Stage, Performance Protest
  David Montgomery, Washington Post, 29 January 2003
• Bush Address Short on Specific Evidence
  The Guardian, 29 January 2003
• Evidence is scant and some policy nuances are lost in Bush speech
  Calvin Woodward, Associated Press, 28 January 2003

The Permanent Campaign

• 100 Mistakes for Bush to Choose From
  American Progress Report, 3 May 2004
• Bush Takes On Direct Role in Shaping Election Tactics
  Adam Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 29 August 2004
• Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement
  Jeff Jones, ABQJournal, 30 July 2004
• Bush enjoys travel advantage on taxpayer-financed Air Force One
  Associated Press (in USA Today), 1 June 2004
• Taxpayers pay for Bush's campaign trips in Air Force One
  Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press, 30 May 2004
• Bush: The Dream Campaign
  Elizabeth Drew, New York Review of Books, 10 June 2004 issue
• Bush's 'Pioneers' and 'Rangers': the quid pro quo of fundraising
  Thomas B. Edsall, Sarah Cohen and James V. Grimaldi, Washington Post, 15 May 2004
• Treasury news releases on taxes attacked as improper politicking
  Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press (in the Detroit News), 10 April 2004
• Second-Guessing of Bush Now Extends to Convention Site
  Michael Slackman, New York Times, 10 April 2004
• Bush uses federal resources to push re-election
  Nancy Minac, Salon, 5 April 2004
• War president goes on the defensive
  Linda Feldmann and Liz Marlantes, The Scotsman, 28 March 2004
• Europeans unite against Bush
  Nettavisen (Norway), 25 March 2004
• Is Alan Greenspan trying to get George W. Bush elected?
  Mark Weisbrot, Knight-Ridder, 22 March 2004
• Bush campaign gear made in Burma
  Lauren Weber, Newsday, 18 March 2004
• Bush's back-door political machine
  Jerry M. Landay, Media Transparency (in The Smirking Chimp), 18 March 2004
• Squandering the trauma of September 11
  Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian, 11 March 2004
• Democracy Took the Day Off
  PR Newswire, 4 March 2004
• Bush Campaign Ads . . . Brought to You by Special Interests
  Public Citizen, 3 March 2004
• Bush Exploits Martin Luther King's Grave For Political Fundraiser
  Daily Mislead, 15 January 2004
• Firestorm engulfs Bush plan to give illegal immigrants legal status
  Ron Hutcheson and Dave Montgomery, Detroit Free Press, 8 January 2004
• Cheney's grab-and-go rubs locals the wrong way
  Richard Benedetto, USA Today, 3 December 2003
• To Some in GOP, Bush's Troubles Become a Liability
  Juliet Eilperin and David S. Broder, Washington Post (in Truthout), 21 October 2003
• Bush 'Compassion' Agenda: A Liability in '04?
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 26 August 2003
• Bush wants our hearts and minds
  Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2003
• For 2004, Bush's Aides Plan Late Sprint for Re-election
  Adam Nagourney and Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 22 April 2003
• An Election Season Done, Another Just Begun
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 7 January 2003
• Democrats See Disconnect Between Rhetoric and GOP Actions
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 8 November 2002
• The Cost of Presidential Travel Is Anyone's Guess
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 29 October 2002
• Bush Enlists Government in GOP Campaign
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 24 October 2002
• Bush uses U.S. Treasury to help brother's re-election campaign
  Richard Oppel, New York Times, 18 October 2002
• Partisan-in-chief
  The Economist, 17 October 2002
• White House Uses 'Niche' Magazines to Influence Public Opinion
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 30 September 2002
• For Bush, the Stump Goes On
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 17 September 2002
• Democrats Question Iraq Timing
  Dana Milbank, Detroit Free Press, 16 September 2002
• For Bush, September 11 ceremony is a campaign stop
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 7 September 2002
• For Bush, even Independence Day is a campaign stop
  Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, 5 July 2002
• Under Tight Security, Bush Invokes Faith Before Thousands in W.Va.
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 5 July 2002
• Playing politics at Ripley
  editorial, Charleston Gazette, 4 July 2002
• To Revive Agenda, Bush Courts Blacks
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 3 July 2002
• Bush criticized for fundraising trips at taxpayers' expense
  Peter Wallsten, Miami Herald, 22 June 2002
• Principles are for wimps: Bush policies follow politics of states needed in 2004
  Susan Page, USA Today (in The Smirking Chimp), 17 June 2002
• Bush's Popularity Isn't Aiding GOP Domestic Agenda
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 16 June 2002
• Bush Turns More Partisan With Coming of Elections
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 19 May 2002
• Exploitation of 9/11 photo for fund-raiser raises a ruckus
  Edwin Chen, Los Angeles Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 15 May 2002
• Bush Uses Mental Health Issues as Cover for Fundraising Trip
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 29 April 2002
• SD groups upset after Bush withdraws invitation
  Black Hills Pioneer, 29 April 2002
• Bush isn't on the ballot, but his influence is
  Judy Keen, USA Today, 28 April 2002
• Bush Courts Unions to Split Off Votes
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 30 March 2002
• Bush Signs Campaign Bill, Hits Road to Raise Money
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 28 March 2002
• Bush Fund-Raising Campaign Swings Through Texas
  Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press (in the Washington Post), 28 March 2002
• Bush Signs Campaign Bill, Then Opens Money Tour
  Elisabeth Bumiller and Philip Shenon, New York Times, 28 March 2002
• Democrats Assail Bush Trip to Peru as "Campaign Stop"
  Associated Press, 23 March 2002
• Riordan's Defeat Is Rove's Embarrassment
  Mary McGrory, Washington Post, 7 March 2002
• Bush Zigzags After Choice Loses in California Primary
  Richard L. Berke, New York Times, 7 March 2002
• Bush Tour Will Promote National Service
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 4 March 2002
• Democrats: If school visit excludes Wellstone, GOP should pay
  Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Duluth News Tribune, 2 March 2002
• Bush Campaigns for Mrs. Dole in North Carolina Race
  David E. Sanger, New York Times, 28 February 2002
• Bush Campaigns for Liddy Dole
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 27 February 2002
• Bush's Hopes for Republican to Run California Hit a Snag
  Richard L. Berke, New York Times, 25 February 2002
• Bush's Campaign Activity Draws Criticism
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 17 February 2002
• Democrats Urge Bush to Have GOP Ads Featuring Him Pulled
  Helen Dewar, Washington Post, 13 February 2002
• The Permanent War Campaign
  Steve Kettmann, Mother Jones, 12 February 2002
• Presidential Travel: It's All About Local News
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 11 February 2002

Miscellaneous News

• Bush vs. the Laureates: How Science Became a Partisan Issue
  Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 19 October 2004
• Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards
  Graydon Carter, Independent UK, 3 September 2004
• Scientists Say White House Questioned Their Politics
  Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 9 July 2004
• U.S. Science Policy Swayed by Politics - Union of Concerned Scientists
  Maggie Fox, Reuters, 8 July 2004
• U.S. Imposes New Limits on Scientists
  Reuters, 26 June 2004
• Bush's Management Style Is a Liability
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 2 June 2004
• History profs rate Bush a disaster
  Tom Brazaitis, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 23 May 2004
• Bush pronouncements reveal his obstinacy
  Tom Raum, Associated Press (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 3 April 2004
• Bush critics say politics drives release of classified material
  Dana Priest, Washington Post, 31 March 2004
• White House Intimidation: A Brief History of Threats and Defamation
  Center for American Progress, 12 March 2004
• Claim vs. Fact: The President on Meet the Press
  annotated transcript, Center for American Progress, 7 February 2004
• Conservative sportsmen turn against Bush
  Nick Jans, USA Today, 27 January 2004
• Terror Alert Undermines Administration's Safety Claims
  Tom Regan, Christian Science Monitor, 26 December 2003
• Is federal mining official being punished for whistleblowing?
  Phillip Babich, Salon, 16 December 2003
• Bush's Strong Arm Can Club Allies Too
  Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei, Washington Post, 21 March 2003
• Shades of Candidate Gore in Bush's Agenda
  James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times, 7 February 2003
• White House Seeks 9.3 Percent Funding Increase for Itself
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 7 February 2003
• Bush's Conservative Policies Put GOP Moderates on Edge
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 19 January 2003
• Public payroll: A Republican family affair
  Jonathan Turley, Los Angeles Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 13 January 2003
• Bush's New Political Science
  Ken Silverstein, Mother Jones, November/December 2002
• For Bush, Facts Are Malleable
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post (in Truthout), 22 October 2002
• The Bush Purge of Science
  Frederick Sweet, Intervention Magazine, 10 October 2002
• Privacy Czar: Anti-Communist Excesses Haunt Present
  Wired, 19 October 2002
• Bush's war plans are a cover-up, Byrd says
  Paul J. Nyden, Charleston Gazette, 21 September 2002
• Dept. of Education web site plans purge of 'non-Bush' information
  Michelle R. Davis, Education Week, 18 September 2002
• Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President
  Neil Mackay, Glasgow Sunday Herald (in The Smirking Chimp), 15 September 2002
• Attributes that boosted Bush after September 11 are now eroding his popularity
  Bob Kemper, Chicago Tribune, 10 September 2002
• Major Crimes In U.S. Increase 2001 Rise Follows 9 Years of Decline
  Dan Eggen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 23 June 2002
• Restoring the imperial presidency
  Bruce Shapiro, Salon, 17 June 2002
• Under Bush, the Briefing Gets Briefer
  Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 24 May 2002
• For Bush, Reverses Come After Steady Going
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 21 April 2002
• A Rising Toll for Bush: No Peace, More Blame
  Patrick E. Tyler, New York Times, 18 April 2002
• Wear Tie, Be on Time, Avoid Mideast
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 15 April 2002
• Inspectors General Ousted at 2 Agencies
  Edward Walsh, Washington Post, 3 April 2002
• Bush Is Still Winning War There, but He Begins to Lose Battle Here
  David E. Sanger, New York Times, 9 March 2002
• A day of smoke and mirrors for Bush
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 February 2002
• States Seek to Counter U.S. Deregulation
  Stephen Labaton, New York Times, 13 January 2002
• Bush constantly seeks political advantage from September 11 aftermath
  Richard L. Berke, New York Times, 26 December 2001
• Bush May Use Recess Appointment for Controversial Nominees
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 19 December 2001
• The new enemy of technological supremacy is in the White House
  Brian Alexander, Wired, 6 September 2001
• Government Reviving Ties to Scientists
  William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 November 2001
• Home Front Is Minefield for President
  Elisabeth Bumiller and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 October 2001
• Scientists Resist Bush Plan to Gut Scientific Research Programs
  James Glanz, New York Times, 5 September 2001
• George W: Garbage In, Garbage Out
  John Balzar, Los Angeles Times (in CommonDreams), 29 August 2001
• Bush Plans to Cut Federal Workers
  Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 26 August 2001
• In news conference, Bush reaffirms his priorities
  Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 25 August 2001
• Budget Forecast Makes Spending on Bush's Campaign Promises Unlikely
  Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 23 August 2001
• Promise of Latino votes tempts Bush to give amnesty to 3m illegal immigrants
  Martin Kettle, The Guardian, 16 July 2001
• With an eye toward 2004, Bush panders to voting blocs
  Steven Thomma, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2001
• Role of Politics Evident In Bush's White House
  John F. Harris, Washington Post, 24 June 2001
• Many reexamined Clinton regulations weren't as "last minute" as Bush regime claimed
  Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 9 June 2001
• Global Realities Redefine Bush's Agenda
  David E. Sanger, New York Times, 11 June 2001
• Bush and Baseball a "Snug Fit"
  Frank Bruni, New York Times, 9 June 2001
• Tax Cut Undoes Clinton's 'New Direction'
  John F. Harris, Washington Post, 8 June 2001
• Bush's travel itinerary - surprise! - is to swing states
  Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2001
• The Far Horizon: Jeffords' Gap
  Harlan Ullman, UPI, 1 June 2001
• Bush inherits lawsuits from Clinton era
  Associated Press (in USA Today), 30 May 2001
• One win, then Bush juggernaut halts
  Mary Dejevsky, Independent UK, 27 May 2001
• Bush plans campaign against Senate Democrats
  Dana Milbank and Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 25 May 2001
• Bush regime excludes mainstream organizations from U.S. delegations in favor of right-wing groups
  Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, 17 May 2001
• Conservatives are purring with delight over W.
  Gloria Borger, U.S. News & World Report, 9 April 2001
• GOP Targets 45 Clinton Executive Order to Overturn
  Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 8 April 2001
• Now Bush wants to scrap deal on internet privacy
  Charles Arthur, Independent UK, 01 April 2001
• Bush removes consumer protections
  Helen Thomas, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 27 March 2001
• Gender gap still an issue for Bush
  Bill Straub, Scripps Howard News Service (in the Detroit News), 22 March 2001
• Conservatives Savor Their Role as Insiders in the White House
  Robin Toner, New York Times, 19 March 2001
• Bush eyes spending cuts in most agencies
  Eric Pianin, Washington Post (in the Detroit News), 10 February 2001
• In His First Days, Bush Plans Review of Clinton's Acts
  David E. Sanger and Frank Bruni, New York Times, 14 January 2001
• Bush as President: Questions, Clues and Contradiction
  Dan Balz and Terry M. Neal, Washington Post, 17 December 2000

Commentary

• The case against Bush, part 1: Closing of the presidential mind
  Franklin Foer, New Republic (in The Smirking Chimp), 28 June 2004
• Bush's 'Apex' of Unlimited Power
  Nat Parry, Consortium News, 15 June 2004
• The Conservative Case for Voting Democratic
  Doug Bandow, Cato Institute, 20 April 2004
• A President Beyond the Law
  Anthony Lewis, New York Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 7 May 2004
• I Will Not Shut Up...
  Sheila Samples, Scoop, 29 April 2004
• A Scary Performance, and a Signal for Slaughter
  Matthew Rothschild, Progressive, 13 April 2004
• What has George W ever done for women?
  Laura Flanders, The Guardian, 26 March 2004
• Bush is a Fear President
  Albert Scardino, The Guardian, 24 March 2004
• Bush's catastrophic allergy to Clinton
  William Saletan, Slate, 23 March 2004
• The Politics of Narcissism
  Peter Wolson, Ph.D, Counterpunch, 14 February 2004
• The White House vs. Science
  editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 January 2004
• The U.S. Supreme Court and The Imperial Presidency
  John W. Dean, FindLaw's Writ, 16 January 2004
• George W. Bush: Words vs. Deeds
  Mick Youther, Intervention Magazine, 27 December 2003
• Why Bush Angers Liberals
  Michael Kinsley, Time, 6 October 2003
• George W. Bush's medieval presidency
  Neil Gabler, Los Angeles Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 6 October 2003
• An Administration That Thinks And Acts As A Child
  John A. McKinnon, International Herald Tribune (in CommonDreams), 17 September 2003
• A whiff of fascism
  Carla Binion, The Smirking Chimp, 7 April 2003
• The Three Strategic Fallacies of the Bush Administration
  Michael Lind, New America Foundation, 13 March 2003
• Domestic stealth bombs: George W. Bush's war on America
  Kristen Lombardi, Boston Phoenix (in The Smirking Chimp), 27 February 2003
• The Madness of Empire
  Scott McConnell, American Conservative, February 2003
• The real 'conservative' agenda: Drown democracy in a bathtub
  Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams (in The Smirking Chimp), 26 February 2003
• Civil liberties being eroded in America
  Dr. James J. Zogby, Gulf News, 24 February 2003
• Marbury v. Madison v. Ashcroft
  Anthony Lewis, New York Times, 24 February 2003
• This road to hell is paved with Bush's bad choices
  John B. Judis, Los Angeles Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 20 February 2003
• Unravelling the social safety net
  Susan Milligan, Boston Globe (in The Smirking Chimp), 9 February 2003
• Beware statesman invoking God
  Diana Wichtel, New Zealand Herald (in The Smirking Chimp), 8 February 2003
• Taking liberties with liberty
  Debby Morse, San Francisco Examiner (in The Smirking Chimp), 5 February 2003
• Bush has failed again and again
  Greg Colburn, York Daily Record, 2 February 2003
• Bush's Messiah Complex
  The Progressive, February 2003
• Bush's Armageddon Obsession, Revisited
  Michael Ortiz Hill, CounterPunch, 4 January 2003
• The Sons Also Rise
  Paul Krugman, New York Times, 22 November 2002
• Eschewing Law in Favor of Force
  Michael C. Dorf, FindLaw, 30 October 2002
• Heavily Thickening To Empire
  Steve Cobble, TomPaine.com, 29 October 2002
• Bush is guilty of crass duplicity
  Eleanor Clift, Newsweek, 28 October 2002
• Good Reasons Aren't Enough for Bush
  Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 24 October 2002
• Permanent Revolution
  Ted Rall, 2 October 2002
• Power shift to president may stick
  Linda Feldmann and Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, 3 October 2002
• 'Bullied' opponents stand up to Bush's challenge
  Jason Vest, London Observer, 29 September 2002
• It's time for the president to apologize
  Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times, 29 September 2002
• Americans shouldn't get fooled again
  Brent Flynn, Coppell Gazette, 25 September 2002
• Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame...
  Cragg Hines, Houston Chronicle, 28 September 2002
• Daschle Was More Right Than He Knew About Bush
  Timothy Noah, Slate, 26 September 2002
• What Watergate Was About
  Leslie T. Thornton, Law.com, 12 August 2002
• King Bush / Democrats finally say no
  editorial, Minneapolis Star-Tribune (in The Smirking Chimp), 26 September 2002
• This is not acceptable
  Molly Ivins, Houston Chronicle, 23 September 2002
• How to squander moral capital
  Todd Gitlin, Mother Jones (in The Smirking Chimp), 10 September 2002
• The Troubling New Face of America
  President Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, 5 September 2002
• Obsession: Not just a cologne, but a way of governing
  Don Harrison, Philadelphia Daily News (in The Smirking Chimp), 7 August 2002
• Bush is becoming downright dangerous
  Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, 28 July 2002
• George Bush is losing control of the American political agenda
  The Economist, 25 July 2002
• Bush police state
  editorial, Lexington Herald-Leader, 25 July 2002
• Bush acting as imperial president
  Helen Thomas (in The Smirking Chimp), 4 July 2002
• Behold, A Child Shall Lead Them
  William Rivers Pitt, Truthout, 27 June 2002
• The Reality Thing
  Paul Krugman, New York Times, 25 June 2002
• Talkin' about the F-word
  Bernard Weiner, The Smirking Chimp, 24 June 2002
• Bush at bay
  Ed Vulliamy, Observer, 23 June 2002
• Bush is turning U.S. into serfdom
  Jeane Morris, Amarillo Globe-News (in The Smirking Chimp), 5 June 2002
• Operating from Behind a Blur of Spin
  Howard Gleckman, Business Week, 21 May 2002
• Ignore Nixon at Your Peril
  John W. Dean, FindLaw's Writ, 8 May 2002
• 'The contra government'
  Bridget Gibson, America Held Hostile (in The Smirking Chimp), 6 May 2002
• The rape of a nation
  Connie Harvey, Aspen Daily News, 28 April 2002
• Diplomatic Impunity
  George Monbiot, ZNet, 24 April 2002
• Why Bush Will Be a One-Term President
  Richard Reeves, The Smirking Chimp, 19 April 2002
• The Shadow of Totalitarianism
  Michael Ventura, Austin Chronicle, 22 March 2002
• Policy Changes? What Policy Changes?
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 March 2002
• No, he's not King George
  editorial, Madison Capital-Times, 20 March 2002
• Can the Dems make hay if the wheels come off Bush's domestic agenda?
  Bennett Roth and Karen Masterson, Houston Chronicle (in the Smirking Chimp), 17 March 2002
• Is America a Rogue State?
  Scott Galindez, Truthout, 13 March 2002
• Lots of Talk, Precious Little Walk
  Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post, 11 March 2002
• A Lesson in Presidential Tradition: Pass the Blame and Forgo the Crow
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 5 March 2002
• A Cloak Of Righteousness
  John Rieger, TomPaine.com, 26 February 2002
• Bush Is Bad for America
  editorial, Impact Press, 19 February 2002
• Axis of Weasels
  Barry Crimmins, BarryCrimmins.com, February 2002
• The Way Bush Sees the World
  Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 17 February 2002
• Now a word from the disapproving 15 percent
  David P. Barash, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8 February 2002
• Republican agenda rules the war on terrorism
  Simon Tisdall, Guardian (UK), 7 February 2002
• Bush: all war all the time
  Stephanie Salter, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 February 2002
• Government Gangsterism at Work
  Ted Rall, AlterNet, 31 January 2002
• George W. and "The Vision Thing"
  Bernard Weiner, Truthout, 24 January 2002
• Conservatism Recast
  E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 27 January 2002
• Corporate interests put their brand on Whitehouse
  Brian Schweitzer, Billings Outpost, 19 January 2002
• Fool Me Twice
  Robert Kuttner, American Prospect, 11 February 2002 issue
• Bush's Stealthy Pursuit of a Partisan Agenda
  David S. Broder, Washington Post, 2 January 2002
• Let's Roll
  Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, 2 January 2002
• Has Bush's foreign policy really changed?
  Holger Jensen, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 28 December 2001
• Bush aims to pull a string of fast ones
  Dave Zweifel, Madison Capital Times, 11 December 2001
• Hitting the Trifecta
  Paul Krugman, New York Times, 7 December 2001
• Bush blew it with the tax cut
  E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 7 September 2001
• Reforming Success
  Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 7 September 2001
• Bill Press: Bush leads U.S. from A-OK to IOU
  Bill Press, CNN, 29 August 2001
• Bush is taking credit for legislation that looks nothing like what he proposed
  Howard Gleckman, Business Week, 21 August 2001
• Bush preaches values, doesn't practice them
  Marianne Means, Houston Chronicle, 17 August 2001
• The limits of Bush's glad hand
  Kenneth T. Walsh, U.S. News & World Report, 6 August 2001 issue
• Veni, vidi, unilaterali: Bush and principle
  Cragg Hines, Houston Chronicle, 27 July 2001
• The Vision Thing
  Anthony Lewis, New York Times, 28 July 2001
• In Bush White House, Spin Is Reality
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 21 July 2001
• For Bush's agenda, summer an unkind season
  Susan Page, USA Today, 10 July 2001
• Trying to Run a Country Like a Corporation Doesn't Work
  David E. Sanger, New York Times, 8 July 2001
• It's Not Personal, Mr. Bush
  Rich Lowry, Washington Post, 1 July 2001
• Bush embraces states' rights — except for issues he wants to control
  David Plotz, Slate, 21 June 2001
• The act-now, think-later president
  Daniel Schorr, Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2001
• What we need in White House is a politician, not a CEO
  Geneva Overholser, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 15 June 2001
• Bush needs to follow Daddy's advice
  Helen Thomas, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 15 June 2001
• The Backslap Backlash
  Frank Rich, New York Times, 9 June 2001
• Better Concentrate Real Hard, Mr. President
  Richard S. Dunham, Business Week, 4 June 2001
• Mr. Bush's Idea of Leadership
  editorial, New York Times, 1 June 2001
• Bush Is Glued to His Script
  Robert B. Reich, Los Angeles Times (in CommonDreams), 31 May 2001
• Bush suddenly has the energy for big government
  Walter Shapiro, USA Today, 17 May 2001
• Enough with "changing the tone," already
  E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 1 May 2001
• Count on Bush to cheer the greed of multinational corporations
  Rick Mercier, Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance - Star, 23 April 2001
• More friendly reminders that Shrub & Co. think you're an imbecile
  Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 April 2001
• Where's the compassion that was supposed to go with Bush's conservatism?
  Margaret Carlson, Time, 9 April 2001
• Arsenic and Old Faithful
  Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 10 April 2001
• Bush's ideology shuts out many
  Joe Stroud, Detroit Free Press, 6 April 2001
• Bush's reactionary agenda causes negative reactions
  Adam Clymer, New York Times, 1 April 2001
• The Feeling of a Coup
  Anthony Lewis, New York Times, 31 March 2001
• The Executive-Class President
  Paul Starr, American Prospect, 9 April 2001 issue
• Bush Language
  Reinout van Wagtendonk, Radio Netherlands, 19 March 2001
• Bush White House more prep school than corporation
  Rob Walker, Slate, 13 March 2001
• Pessimistic Bush Has Evicted Bush the Optimistic Candidate
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 18 March 2001
• In Bush Cabinet, It's Both Advise And Dissent
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 March 2001
• The Faith-Based Presidency
  Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 February 2001
• [Don't be fooled by] Mr. Bush's Smooth Start
  editorial, New York Times, 4 January 2001
• The Uriah Heep Administration
  Marjorie Williams, Washington Post, 31 January 2001
• Bush faces tough going in reaching out to blacks
  James Gerstenzang, Detroit News (from the Los Angeles Times, 13 January 2001
• Bush is reaching too high
  Marianne Means, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 January 2001
• A divider, not a uniter
  Bruce Shapiro, Salon, 15 December 2000
• Bush's Politics Draped in Doubt, Not Passion
  Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 16 December 2000

Smoke and Mirrors

• $3 Trillion Price Tag Left Out As Bush Details His Agenda
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 14 September 2004
• Unmasked: The George W Bush the President Doesn't Want the World To See
  Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald, 12 September 2004
• Bush-League Lysenkoism
  editorial, Scientific American, 26 April 2004
• Bush Administration provides staged 'reporting' for news programs
  Robert Pear, New York Times (in Truthout), 15 March 2004
• Beware 'Sound Science.' It's Doublespeak for Trouble
  Chris Mooney, Washington Post, 29 February 2004
• Scientific Group: Bush Ignores, Manipulates Research
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 18 February 2004
• Scientists claim administration bends conclusions to suit policy
  Seth Borenstein, Detroit Free Press, 19 February 2004
• The Bush administration is jettisoning real scientists in favor of yes men
  Amanda Griscom, Salon, 14 November 2003
• Bush’s News War
  Richard Wolffe and Rod Nordland, Newsweek, 27 October 2003
• Authors Paint Bush as Liar in Flurry of New Books
  Grant McCool, Reuters, 7 October 2003
• The Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-than-Nixonian Tactic
  John W. Dean, FindLaw, 15 August 2003
• Rove Manipulates Public Fear
  Bill Gallagher, Niagara Falls Reporter, 13 May 2003
• When No News Is Big News
  Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2003
• Bush lies and manipulates public and Congress
  Carla Binion, The Smirking Chimp, 25 April 2003
• Bush-league script enraging press
  Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star, 9 March 2003
• Made in China? A Bush Tableau Demurs
  New York Times, 23 January 2003
• Speech Backdrop Snafu Had White House Thinking Out of the Box
  Katy Textor, ABC News, 22 January 2003
• Amtrak Melodrama
  Mary McGrory, Washington Post, 30 June 2002
• Timing of plot news fit Bush's agenda
  Judy Keen and Laurence McQuillan, USA Today, 12 June 2002
• At the White House, 'The People' Have Spoken -- Endlessly
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 4 June 2002
• George W., Poll Junkie
  American Prospect, 29 May 2002
• Science a Moving Target on Policy Battlefield
  Eric Pianin, Washington Post, 2 May 2002
• Lying in Style
  Michael Kinsley, Slate, 18 April 2002
• More violence threatens to shred Bush's agenda
  Susan Page, USA Today (in the Detroit News), 14 April 2002
• President Bush doesn't believe in polling---just ask his pollsters
  Joshua Green, Washington Monthly, April 2002
• A Message Machine With the Hiccups
  James Carney and John F. Dickerson, Time, 11 March 2002
• Snookered By Bush
  Tad Friend, New Yorker, 25 February 2002
• White House Is Backing Foes of Finance Bill
  Richard L. Berke and Alison Mitchell, New York Times, 12 February 2002
• President Hits the Road To Pitch Service Initiative
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 31 January 2002
• Bush Announces More than $1B in HUD Grants
  Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press (in the Washington Post), 20 November 2001
• Is Bush Regime's Attack on Oppression of Afghan Women a Concern for Human Rights or for the Gender Gap?
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 19 November 2001
• Another Useful Crisis
  Paul Krugman, New York Times, 11 November 2001
• Bush Continues to use children for domestic propaganda
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 2 November 2001
• Bush Claims a Veto Over Release of Presidential Papers
  Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr., Washington Post, 2 November 2001
• Bush hopes new speeches will counteract impression of disarray
  David E. Sanger with Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 November 2001
• Critics Blast Bush Order On Papers
  Associated Press (in the Guardian - UK), 2 November 2001
• Bush team wallows in self praise
  Bill Press, CNN, 2 November 2001
• Scholars are outraged by executive order curbing release of Presidential papers
  Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters (in the Detroit Free Press), 2 November 2001
• Bush Clamping Down On Presidential Papers
  George Lardner Jr., Washington Post, 1 November 2001
• Bush Executive Order Contravening 1978 Presidential Papers Act
  (republished in the Federation of American Scientists web site), 29 October 2001
• Bush Will Go on Road to Try to Draw Attention to Proposals, Away From Surplus
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 26 August 2001
• Bush Plans "Values-Based Initiative" to Distract from Failing Agenda
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 29 July 2001
• Advisers Seek Ways to Redefine Presidency as Popularity Slips
  Dan Balz, Washington Post, 1 July 2001
• Bush team tries to combat unpopularity of his agenda by changing his image
  James Carney, Time, 1 July 2001
• Bush, unfazed by lack of mandate, expects to impose agenda
  Dan Balz, Washington Post, 5 May 2001
• Bush's 'Compassionate Conservative' Guru Sees Culture as Culprit
  Ken Ringle, Washington Post, 3 April 2001
• News Stories Leave Out Bush's Likely Policy Toward Gay Rights
  Charles Kaiser, Washington Post, 24 January 2001
• Bush to Forge Ahead With Agenda
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 14 December 2000

The Regime's Obsession With Secrecy

• Also see: Energy Task Force Meetings
• Post 9/11 Age of Missing Information
  Clary-Meuser Research Network (undated)
• Secrecy in the Bush Administration
  Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Truthout, 18 September 2004
• Classified Data Growing to Include 'Comically Irrelevant'
  Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press, 3 September 2004
• Government secrecy undermines anti-terrorism efforts
  Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press, 25 August 2004
• Group: Bush Muzzling U.S. Park Officials
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 26 May 2004
• FBI translators' testimony to Congress in 2002 is classified retroactively
  Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 20 May 2004
• Study Says U.S. Government Should Reopen Some Web Sites
  Associated Press (in the Washington Post), 11 May 2004
• Making women's issues go away
  Rebecca Traister, Salon, 28 April 2004
• From the White House, With Silence
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 20 April 2004
• Bush Nominee for Archivist Is Criticized for His Secrecy
  Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Felicia R. Lee, New York Times, 20 April 2004
• Government Expert Kept From Speaking at Antidepressant Hearing
  Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 16 April 2004
• It's time for Bush to play the 'name names' game
  Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 21 March 2004
• Federal Information Deemed Confidential Triples in Five Years
  Joe Feuerherd, National Catholic Reporter, 9 January 2004
• Bush's gubernatorial records "open" only to allies
  Lucius Lomax, Austin Chronicle, 7 November 2003
• Under Bush, Expanding Secrecy
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 23 December 2003
• Keeping Secrets
  Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound, U.S. News & World Report (in Truthout), 12 December 2003
• One Man Against Secrecy
  Dana Priest, Washington Post, 26 November 2003
• Gag order leaves troops, reporters speechless
  Mike Littwin, Rocky Mountain News (in Truthout), 25 November 2003
• Why is Bush avoiding the Australian media? Don't ask
  Mark Riley, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2003
• Bush's orders to officials to stop the leaks is leaked to the media
  Joseph L. Galloway and James Kuhnhenn, Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 October 2003
• Bush's Unofficial Official Secrets Act
  John W. Dean, FindLaw, 26 September 2003
• Ashcroft Is Unprintable, and Glad of It
  Todd Gitlin and Jay Rosen, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 25 September 2003
• It's TGIF for the White House when it has bad news
  Judy Keen and Haya El Nasser, USA Today, 22 September 2003
• The Day Ashcroft Censored Freedom of Information
  Ruth Rosen, sfc (in CommonDreams), 7 January 2002
• Republicans block investigations into Bush Administration actions
  Susan Page, USA Today, 13 August 2003
• An Answer? Out of the Question
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 22 April 2003
• Historical papers' release delayed by Bush edict
  Deb Riechmann, Associated Press (in the Detroit News), 27 March 2003
• Bush Ready to Rescind Clinton Order Limiting Government Secrets
  Adam Clymer, New York Times, 21 March 2003
• Someone, Blow the Whistle on Bush's Excessive Secrecy
  Pat M. Holt, Christian Science Monitor (in CommonDreams), 6 February 2003
• Government Openness at Issue as Bush Holds Onto Records
  Adam Clymer, New York Times, 3 January 2003
• White House placing actions under veil of secrecy
  Finlay Lewis, Canton Repository, 1 December 2002
• What does Bush fear?
  editorial, Boston Phoenix, 26 November 2002
• White House guidelines would keep certain records from public
  Jeff Nesmith, Detroit Free Press, 1 November 2002
• Military reporters join forces to fight access restrictions
  press release, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 23 October 2002
• Science Body Objects to Information Lock-Down
  Reuters, 19 October 2002
• White House Rigidly Controls Media Access
  Sharon Basco interviewing Journalism Professor Ted Gup, TomPaine.com, 14 October 2002
• Helen Thomas Blasts Bush Secrecy
  Rod Thompson, Honolulu Star Bulletin, 26 September 2002
• Iraq Briefings: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  Jim VandeHei, Washington Post, 15 September 2002
• Lies My President Told Me
  Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 September 2002
• A Silence That Coolidge Would Envy
  David E. Sanger, New York Times, 3 August 2002
• Government tightens hold on information
  Bryon Okada, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2002
• Bush sets a bad example
  David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2002
• DOJ Loses 9/11 Evidence Control Attempt
  Tom Flocco, Scoop, 15 July 2002
• Judge says Bush View of Executive Privilege is Too Expansive
  Associated Press (in Truthout), 13 July 2002
• They've Got a Secret -- Lots, Actually
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post (in Truthout), 21 May 2002
• A Penchant for Secrecy
  Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 5 May 2002
• Bill Aimed at Reversing Bush Order on Records
  George Lardner Jr., Washington Post, 13 April 2002
• Backlash grows against White House secrecy
  Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 25 March 2002
• Daschle Pushes to Query Security Chief
  Adam Clymer, New York Times, 15 March 2002
• Administration's tight control over flow of information draws charges of 'arrogance of power' in Washington
  Laurence McQuillan, USA Today, 14 March 2002
• Time For Talking
  David S. Broder, Washington Post, 6 March 2002
• White House, Hill Democrats at Odds Over Habit of Secrecy
  Dana Milbank and John Lancaster, Washington Post, 6 March 2002
• Bush View of Secrecy Is Stirring Frustration
  Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 2 March 2002
• Bush, Congress at odds over information access
  David L. Greene, Baltimore Sun (in the Detroit News), 28 February 2002
• Scientific secrecy can hide too much
  editorial, Detroit Free Press, 28 February 2002
• Critics Say New Rule Limits Access to Records
  New York Times, 27 February 2002
• Bush, Cheney champion privacy — for themselves
  Tony Mauro, USA Today, 27 February 2002
• Pizza Crust, Principles and Politics
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 February 2002
• Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'?
  Celestine Bohlen, New York Times, 24 February 2002
• U.S. Tightening Rules on Keeping Scientific Secrets
  William J. Broad, New York Times, 16 February 2002
• Burton threatens Bush with contempt charge
  Wall Street City, 15 February 2002
• Republican Lets Loose on White House Over Executive Privilege Fight
  Damon Chappie, RollCall (in Democrats.com), 13 February 2002
• Battling Over Records of Bush's Governorship
  Alison Leigh Cowan, New York Times, 11 February 2002
• Dean: 'First step' in Enron cover-up?
  CNN, 9 February 2002
• What Are They Hiding?
  Russ Baker, The Nation, 25 February 2002
• Bush's Insistence of Privacy for Presidential Records Doesn't Apply to His Predecessor
  Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times, 1 February 2002
• Bush won't say which executives he talked to
  Associated Press (in the Houston Chronicle), 28 January 2002
• Public Citizens sues for access to Bush's gubernatorial records
  legal brief, Public Citizen, 3 January 2002
• Open presidential records
  editorial, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 19 December 2001
• Fraction of Reagan's Confidential Papers Approved for Release
  George Lardner Jr., Washington Post, 21 December 2001
• White House too eager to keep things secret
  editorial, Detroit Free Press, 21 December 2001
• Bush Gives Health Secretary Authority to Keep Information Secret
  Alison Mitchell, New York Times, 20 December 2001
• Bush Invokes Executive Privilege on Hill
  Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 14 December 2001
• Bush Claims Executive Privilege in Response to House Inquiry
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times (requires registration to view), 14 December 2001
• Freedom Is History (and Vice Versa)
  Eric Alterman, The Nation, 10 December 2001
• Groups Oppose Bush Limit on Access to Presidential Papers
  Bill Miller, Washington Post, 29 November 2001
• Undercutting history
  Daniel Schorr, Christian Science Monitor, 16 November 2001
• The Problems With Bush's Executive Order Burying Presidential Records
  John Dean, FindLaw, 9 November 2001
• A fight brews over ex-presidents' papers
  Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 6 November 2001
• Bush Keeps a Grip on Presidential Papers
  Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 2 November 2001
• Bush Resists Requests for Internal Documents
  Ellen Nakashima and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, 10 September 2001
• Bush regime has established a pattern of illegal secret meetings
  Leigh Strope, Associated Press (in the Daily Camera), 18 August 2001
• Seeing through the Bush regime's "transparency"
  Marjorie Williams, Washington Post, 21 March 2001
• Why No Presidential Press Conferences?
  William Safire, New York Times, 15 February 2001

State of the Union Message, January 2002

• Transcript of the Address
• See also 'Axis of Evil' (separate page)
• New Rules of Political Rhetoric
  Mark Lilla, New York Times, 24 February 2002
• What Bush Isn't Talking About
  Randolph T. Holhut, Albion Monitor, 4 February 2002
• The State of the Union and the New Cold War
  Rahul Mahajan, CommonDreams, 1 February 2002
• State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world
  editorial, World Socialist Web Site, 31 January 2002
• State of Union raises hackles worldwide, even among allies
  Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor, 31 January 2002
• Bush's State of the Union includes many catchphrases used to mislead
  Laura Flanders, WorkingForChange, 30 January 2002
• Bush has the praise of America but not the trust of the world
  editorial, Independent (UK), 31 January 2002
• Tragedy does not give America a free hand
  editorial, Guardian (UK), 31 January 2002
• President's jobs pledge could be risky
  Robert Dodge, Dallas Morning News, 30 January 2002
• Bush Speech Bristles Philippines
  Paul Alexander, Associated Press, 30 January 2002
• State of the Union: Instant Analysis
  Jacob Weisberg, Slate, 29 January 2002
• How men disguise baldness, women disguise arguments, and Bush disguises politics
  William Saletan, Slate, 30 January 2002
• Escalation of war on terror has more to do with missile defense than with September 11
  Julian Borger, Guardian, 30 January 2002
• Hitching Civic, Economic Goals To the War
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 30 January 2002
• Bush, Focusing on Terrorism, Says Secure U.S. Is Top Priority
  David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 January 2002
• The Democratic Response to President Bush's State of the Union Address
  House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt, Truthout, 30 January 2002
• Statement on President Bush's SOU Address
  Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Truthout, 30 January 2002
• On the President's State of the Union Message
  Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Truthout, 30 January 2002

We've Survived the First Year, Almost

• A look at the president's first year in office
  Mathew Gross, Grist Magazine, 12 February 2002
• State of the President
  KPIG Radio, February 2002
• President Is Emphasizing Wars at Home and Abroad
  Elisabeth Bumiller and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 20 January 2002
• Dubya's first year
  editorial, Guardian (UK), 18 January 2002
• A Doctrine of Presidential Infallibility
  Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 8 January 2002
• Bush's War Message Brings Political Gains
  Mike Allen, Washington Post, 3 January 2002
• The Top Ten Bush Administration Policy Mistakes
  The Angry Liberal, 29 December 2001
• A Turbulent First Year
  editorial, New York Times, 28 December 2001
• Herewith, a 2001 list of corrupt characters
  Rachel Giese, Toronto Star, 27 December 2001