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Smirk of the Union: The Show's Over; Shelve the Sequel

By Robert Borosage
January 29th, 2008

Even President Bush himself seemed almost giddy that he wouldn’t have to go through this State of the Union ritual again. But hold off on the internment rites. While Bush is being discarded, the catastrophic conservative policies that he championed live on. more »

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Smirk of the Union: The Global Warming Debate Shifts Some More

By Bill Scher
January 29th, 2008

As we've said before, nothing that President Bush says in a State of the Union address can been taken at face value. more »

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State of the Union 2008

By Toby Chaudhuri
January 28th, 2008
01/28/2008

President Bush is expected to address problems in the nation’s economy while hailing the state of the union as strong tonight, but for Americans worrying about how to make ends meet, the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to numbers compiled today by the Campaign for America’s Future.

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State of Bush's Union: Whining For Credit

By Bill Scher
January 28th, 2008

The Washington Post previews tonight's State of the Union address with this: more »

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State of the Union Rated Poorly by 4 out of 5 Americans

Submitted by Brian Dockstader
January 25th, 2008

As President George W. Bush is fine tuning his last State of the Union address, American adults do not think much of the current state of the country. Four out of five Americans (81%) think that the current state of the country is fair or poor while just 19 percent think it is excellent or good (2% and 17% respectively).

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Fighting "State of the Union" Deception

By Ari Melber
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January 24th, 2008
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thenation.com — A new study tries to quantify the stream of lies coming from the Bush administration. In just two years of trying to mislead the country into backing the invasion of Iraq, the study found that Bush and his senior administration officials dropped nearly 1000 such terminological inexactitudes on Americans, Congress, the UN and most world leaders.

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State of Delusion

By Bill Scher
February 1st, 2007

Check out our new video, truth-squadding Bush's State of the Union address:


Also, if you missed it earlier, here's Robert Borosage's takedown of Bush's speech, and here's where you can write your local newspapers and get the facts out about the real state of our union.

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Demanding Truth From Power

By David Swanson
January 24th, 2007
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Members of Congress should have been handing Bush subpoenas, not copies of his speech to autograph. more »

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A Speech Bordering On Criminal

By Bill Scher and Isaiah J. Poole
January 23rd, 2007

There ought to be a law against presidents delivering State of the Union addresses that contain the number of fallacies, inconsistencies and duplicitous statements that President B more »

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State Of The Apocalypse

By Glen Ford
January 23rd, 2007
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Whatever Bush may say tonight, the destruction he has wrought speaks even louder. more »

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