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Back on December 7th, Propublica.com released an article called Bush by the Numbers that compared statistics that shape American lives before and after George W. Bush took office. They included data like National Debt on Election Day, Percentage of Americans without health insurance, and Average number of Superfund clean-ups completed per year. Some of the information is quite striking and say more about the state of the nation than a dozen editorial columns.

The reader response to the article was so good, they have released a second edition using suggestions from Propublica and Huffington Post readers.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, today, Nov. 24, 2008, President George W. Bush granted pardons to 14 individuals and commutation of sentence to two individuals.

I tried to find some info on some of these cases via Google but many are so long ago that there don’t seem to be any digital records or news reports that I could find through Google News. There are other ways to dig for this stuff but with a house guest arriving in in a few minutes I just don’t have time now.

Does anyone know if its common for a President to pardon people for convictions that occurred decades ago? The DOJ has a list of Bill Clinton’s pardons but no details as to the dates of the convictions.

President Bush wished Obama well and promised to make a smooth transition a top priority for his remaining time in office in this week’s Radio Address to the Nation (Audio).
Good morning.  Earlier this week, more than 120 million Americans went to the polls and voted for a new President and Congress.  No matter how we [...]

We are dismayed that the president would deny the Iraqi people and its government the basic sovereign right to control their own natural resources. President Bush apparently believes that as commander in chief he is entitled to seize Iraq’s oil fields and control Iraqi oil if he should deem it necessary to protect U.S. national security,” said Jim Fine.

While we are all focused on what is going on the Presidential election is anyone still listening to what President Bush has to say? Dean Baker over at The American Prospect asks a very very important question – Is it News When the President tells Untrue Statements (i.e. lies)?