The Newsroom - While former Vice President Dick Cheney has been quick to tear apart the Obama administration on television or in interviews, his old boss has kept largely out of the political fray since leaving the White House.

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Senate Democrats were rebuffed by the GOP Thursday in a bid for consideration of a group of President Obama's judicial choices, including John J. McConnell Jr., his controversial nominee to the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.

CNBC.com's Jeff Cox needs to brush up on his financial history. He believes that George W. Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts affected only the highest-earning taxpayers, i.e., those who gross $250,000 a year of more.

On Sept. 15, 2008, while George W. Bush was our president, Lehman Brothers collapsed and AIG and the rest of the banking industry were ready to fall like dominoes, a repeat of 1933, which put us in the great depression.

This post originally appeared on Slate . Neither Tom Perriello nor Gerry Connolly, both first-term Democrats from Virginia, wants to talk about Charlie Rangel.

General Motors and Chrysler will repay all of the money the Obama administration spent on their restructurings, President Barack Obama said today in an interview on ABC's "The View." But a White House official said the president did not mean to suggest the companies would pay back all of the $86 billion spent by Obama and former president George W.

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The modern Republican argument about taxes seems to boil down to two principles, both misguided: Taxes can be reduced, but they can never be allowed to go up.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France listens as U.S. President George W. Bush delivers remarks at a summit on financial markets and the world economy on the North Portico of the White House November 14, 2008 in Washington, D.C. SAINT OUEN, France a ' French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel gypsy illegal immigrants ...

Ex- comandante publishes The Strategic Victory a ' but readers hoping for revelations and score-settling will be disappointed Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a meeting of Pastors for Peace in Havana on 26 July 2010.

President Obama must address the growing rift with congressional Democrats soon, Julian E. Zelizer says.

Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants in a generation.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice abandoned international affairs for a Mozart piano concerto on Tuesday, teaming up with Soul legend Aretha Franklin to perform at a charity concert.

Pentagon spending plans and cost-saving efforts would fall short of fielding the kind of modern combat arsenal likely needed to fight future foes, including a rapidly modernizing Chinese military, according to a high-level bipartisan group of defense experts.

Privacy: are breaches justified? Roger Clarke from the Australian Privacy Foundation says whistleblowing is sometimes justified.

The White House says classified Pentagon information about the Afghan war leaked to the Internet represents no threat to national security, but within the Oval Office, Barack Obama is proving to be one of the most anti-leak U.S. presidents in recent history.

Minnesota's not the obvious choice when picking a spot to film an Iraq war movie, but the people behindA "Souvenirs" are making it work.

A deadly wave of American drone strikes in Pakistan's border region has taken the total number launched during Barack Obama's presidency to more than 100, representing a significant surge in attacks.

Kentucky backers of Rand Paul's U.S. Senate campaign are expecting to haul in more than $100,000 from about 100 people at a single fundraiser Monday to be attended by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

The head of the United Nations inspection team which hunted for Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction in the months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq will today give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the war.