George W. Bush

Michelle Shocked Does Not Hate Gay People, So Why Did She Say God Does? [Update: There Was Bad Information on the Internet! Surprise!]

Update, 3/22: You can listen to audio from Michelle Shocked's rant below. So we have a great deal of information now -- her initial lunatic outburst, her highly measured response and the reaction of the masses. Judge for yourself. Update, 3/20: The Texas Observer has an open letter from Michelle S ... More >>

Support for Guest Worker Scheme Shows GOP Still Doesn't Get It

Jury Convicts Saudi Man Who Plotted to Blow Up Home of George W. Bush

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a 22-year-old Saudi national and former Texas Tech student, was convicted in federal court today of plotting to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and blow up home of former President George W. Bush, among other targets. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney' ... More >>

New York Times Celebrates Bush's Birthday With Piece About Why Perry Don't Like Him

Via.​On a certain local man's 65th birthday, The New York Times wonders whether Dubya and Gov. RIck Perry's relationship will help or hurt the latter's more-n-likely run for the White House. After all, they're frienemies now -- have been for years, with Perry insisting since at least '07 that "Geo ... More >>

It's a diary of a mad year as Buzz recalls a P.O.'d 2010.

Wednesday's Unverified Fact About Washington

​The 'Boys travel to the city sometimes visited by George W. Bush on Sunday evening. A final "fact" about the politically incorrect...Every year, Redskins owner Dan Snyder cheers for the Grinch to keep all the who hash and roast beast and "make Cindy Lou Who starve to death."**Source: None--he jus ... More >>

Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.

Get Motivated's Tamara Lowe Is Wearing Last Week's Criticism Like a "Badge of Honor"

Peter and Tamara Lowe​Apparently, there was some miscommunication at the offices of A. Larry Ross Communications, the firm that handles publicity for Get Motivated Seminars, Inc. Last week, as you will recall, Ross's office sent out a press release announcing that Tamara Lowe, co-founder of Get Mo ... More >>

No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

The Daily Show Gets Motivated With Dubya; The Rachel Maddow Show Visits The Lodge

Megan, of course, attended George W. Bush's coming-out as a motivational speaker Monday at the Fort Worth Convention Center; we've also got the slide show to prove it. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in; the Star-Telegram's reporting on the Get Motivated! founders gets a brief shou ... More >>

Finding Their Special Purpose With Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush

Photos by Danny FulgencioFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, among those praying for motivation in Fort Worth Monday​Despite the Monday-morning rain that littered surrounding freeways with wrecked cars, by 8 a.m. yesterday the Fort Worth Convention Center was packed with some 15,0000 people ... More >>

George W. Bush's Fancy Box

As Tom Hicks is looking to sell his majority stake in the Texas Rangers, this MLB.com item concerning tonight's invite-only doings at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington will no doubt prompt reckless speculation:The Rangers are renaming the owner's suite at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington after Presiden ... More >>

For Whom the Toll Bells|You Said It|Nyet|Buzz

"You have taken a simple problem and beleaguered it.. to make it seemas though NTTA is at fault."

10 Questions: Former Presidents

OK, OK--a gimmick for Inauguration day. Give us a break. The President gets a personal chef, state dinners and could probably walk out of any restaurant in the country without paying. Of course, there have been some notorious culinary moments: The competent Bush puking all over his Japane ... More >>

A New Lowe for Bush Library

That headline's intended with all due respect -- because, see, the new director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the SMU campus will be Bourbon County, Kentucky, native Alan Lowe, currently exec director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy on the University of Tennessee ... More >>

What No. 1 Songs Tell Us About Inaugurations

History, as predicted by Inauguration Day's No. 1 hits

Cynthia Dunbar, Meet Michael Piazza. Michael Piazza, Meet Cynthia Dunbar.

I have been worried about why George W. Bush wants to move back to Dallas. What does it say about us that he feels welcome here? Obviously he has chosen an address that may be outside the Park Cities proper but is still solidly within "The Bubble."He will be living in what may well be the only pla ... More >>

"Turkeys Vote."

As I mentioned earlier, Ed Bark has retreived from the Wayback Machine this Thanksgiving must-see, which comes courtesy some YouTuber named "turkeybowler," who rolled this strike back in June. As we're trying to hustle out most of next week's issue in advance of some holiday tomorrow, seems only fit ... More >>

Oliver Stone Talks About W., Which, Damn It, Is "No Hatchet Job"

W. Reminds Us of What We'd Rather Forget

Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?

Trolling Right-Wing Political Blogs Proves That November Can't Come Too Soon

George, Mon Amour

Hunt-ing Season

George Bush Really Focused on Things That Matter -- Like, Oh, Michael Young, Maybe?

Stickin' It to the Pope?

Woe Is They

Conservatives need not apply

Cough, Cough

Watching Chorizo Getting Made

Dubya: A Really Cool Dude

Bush's Books

How the library could affect the ledger

Camp Death

Plus: Stink Pit

Poke in the Eye

Plus: Legal Warrior; Turncoats

Vote No

Silver City plants a shrub where it wants to dig up a Bush

Letters

Life in the Slow Lane

This Bush's summer home is a long way from Kennebunkport, but the folks in Crawford think that's fine

Get on the Bus

For one fellow traveler, the road to an anti-war protest in Washington is paved with good intentions and bad politics

Best Place to Buy Piñatas

Sarita's Imports

Dubya, We Knew You When...

With a homeboy headed for the White House, a handful of his Dallas pals have hopes of making their mark on Washington

Cookie Monster

Raisin stems and weary reporters

Prisoners of Love

The InnerChange Freedom Initiative says it can rehabilitate Texas prison inmates through God--a conservative evangelical Christian God, to be more precise

Oh, Never Mind

The last word--give or take a billion--on the media's election-night mambo

No News is Good News

Belo, streakers, and Bush

Buzz

Lawyers, lawyers and more lawyers

The True Believer

Say what you want about Marvin Olasky, the oddball UT professor and controversial architect of Bush's "compassionate conservatism." He practices what he preaches.

Buzz

Cold embrace; No free ride; Love fest

Battle for the barrio

Dallas Hispanic Republicans fight historic allegiances -- and a few slashed tires

Flunking Out

Charter school scandals are teaching Texas a tough lesson -- one the state should have known four years and $77 million ago.

Buzz

Sonny boy so true

A bill that would increase the fees for filing county records rises from the ashes

Getting dumped

Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground