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Front Page: Secret Order Let US Attack al Qaeda Anywhere
- A classified US order from 2004 authorized the US military to attack al Qaeda anywhere in the world. The order has allowed the US to secretly attack militants in Syria, Pakistan, and other places. — New York Times
- President-elect Barack Obama will meet President Bush in the Oval Office today, to begin the transition of power.
Fingerprint Database Silently Added for Mortgage Industry
Privacy advocates, who usually find themselves opposing President Bush, are urging him to veto a housing bailout bill because it would create a national fingerprint registry for mortgage industry workers.
The fingerprint part of the bill, added by the Senate, is hidden in the lengthy bill, which appears to be about bailing out troubled homeowners.
The databased would encompass mortgage lenders, loan originators, and real estate agents.
President Bush Wants to Pass Global Warming Initiative
President Bush may ask Congress to consider legislation to combat global warming as early as this week. An unmanageable web of US regulatory law, as well as upcoming meetings with world powers, has motivated Bush to take action.
Currently businesses must follow three pieces of complex legislation: the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Clean Air Act.
President Bush Cries While Awarding Medal of Honor
President Bush bestowed the Medal of Honor, America's highest military award, to the parents of a Navy special operations sailor killed in Iraq two years ago. Petty Officer Second Class Michael Monsoor, then a 25-year-old gunner, covered a grenade with his body — saving the lives of his comrades, but sustaining wounds that took his life shortly thereafter.
Becoming visibly emotional, Bush said, "Mr.
Front Page: Bush on FISA, Election in Iran, Afghan Bombing
- President Bush spoke just moments ago from the White House regarding the battle in Congress over FISA. House Democrats introduced their own version of the bill this week in an attempt to bypass the original legislation passed in the Senate. Bush said, "The House bill would make matters even worse .
Bush Dedicates the War on Terror to Jesus
Though President Bush makes no secret of the influence his faith has on his agenda, rarely has the president mixed the language of faith and God so closely with talk of war and terrorism as he did yesterday in an address to the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Tennessee. Bush defended his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan with a 42-minute address attributing his faith to his foreign policy.
Coming just one day after spritual leaders protested President Bush's veto of limits to US interrogation techniques, his speech tying the war to a spiritual quest could raise eyebrows.
President Bush Sings Farewell to a Hilarious Presidency
An unauthorized cellphone video of the American President-turned-American Idol has leaked on the Internet. Last weekend at the Gridiron, an annual roast attended by political journalists, President Bush sang a lighthearted ode to his time in the White House. His serenade was met with chuckles, applause, and a standing ovation.
Headline: President Bush Condemns Venezuela
President George Bush condemned Venezuela yesterday saying, “We firmly oppose any acts of aggression that could destabilize the region." The statement comes amid growing border tensions in South America over Venezuela’s and Ecuador’s militarization along the Colombian border.
Venezuela and Ecuador have mobilized their armies in reaction to a Colombian incursion into Ecuador on a mission to assassinate a high level commander of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia), Raul Reyes.
Lighten Up: President Bush Is a . . . Fetish?
Stephen Colbert hosted former Press Secretary Tony Snow this week and the touchy subject of President Bush's newly released 19 percent approval rating came up. Think that sounds bad? Not according to Stephen.Headline: President Bush Says "I Know There's a Threat!"
In his press conference that just concluded, President Bush strongly criticized Democrats in the House for not putting the FISA bill to vote before recess. "I guess you could be relaxed about this if you didn't think there was a threat to the country." Slamming his hand on the podium, he said, "I know there's a threat to the country!"
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