George W. Bush

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, advocated a "coalition of the willing" on Sunday to help fight Islamic State in Iraq, borrowing a phrase from George W.

With the president's nominee for attorney general languishing in the Senate, John Cornyn (R-TX) issued this statement:

Tim Carney, ExaminerFritz Hollings, John Edwards, Zell Miller, Blanche Lincoln, John Breaux, Kay Hagan, Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu. These eight Democrats have been senators from the South in the past decade. If not for Southern Democrats, Republicans would have nearly had a filibuster-proof Senate supermajority after the 2002 elections, giving George W. Bush some real clout. Without Southern senators, Democrats wouldn’t have taken over the Senate with Jim Jeffords’ party switch in 2001. If not for Southern Democrats, Obamacare wouldn’t have become law.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the CIA during President George W. Bush's second term said Wednesday "I didn't lie and I didn't mislead Congress" about the brutal nature of the administration's interrogations of terrorism-era detainees.

George W. Bush went home to Texas nearly six years ago, but the nation is still working through the contentious national security legacy he left behind.

GENEVA (AP) — Senior U.S. officials who authorized and carried out torture as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policy must be prosecuted, a top U.N. special investigator said Wednesday.

We begin with Ryan Cooper's analysis at The Week on the upcoming release of a Senate report on the use of torture after 9/11:

Former President George W. Bush has a number of accomplishments under his belt: Texas governor, U.S. president, and now, a New York Times best-selling author.

George W. Bush might have developed a brotherly relationship with Bill Clinton -- but he's still picking his actual brother, Jeb, over Clinton's wife, Hillary, in a potential 2016 presidential match-up.

(Paul Mirengoff) The Washington Post reports that Paul Ryan, in many ways the most appealing and credible GOP presidential contender/pretender, has turned his focus to fighting poverty. Following in the footsteps of his mentor Jack Kemp, Ryan has been visiting inner-city neighborhoods accompanied by the estimable conservative anti- poverty crusader Robert Woodson.