As presidential endorsements go, this one could hardly have been more low-key. ABC News caught up with former president George W. Bush in an elevator in downtown Washington on Tuesday and asked the question that elicited the sound bite. Read full article > >

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George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney

We expect some hypocrisy in politics, but it was still jaw-dropping to behold Republicans accusing President Obama of politicizing the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Wasn’t it just eight years ago that the GOP organized an entire presidential campaign — including the choreography of its 2004 national convention — around the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and George W. Bush’s response to them? Read full article > >

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Obama’s winning strategy on foreign policy

Former President George W. Bush reflected on his presidency in a rare public appearance Tuesday, poking fun at his low approval ratings and saying he didn’t miss being the leader of the free world. Read full article > >

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Three years ago, Adrienne Snelling wrote letters to her children and grandchildren explaining how she and her husband, Charles D. Snelling, decided to cope with her Alzheimer’s disease. Adrienne was 79 then and had been battling the illness for about four years. Charles, her husband of nearly 60 years, was her primary caretaker at their home in Fogelsville, Pa. She was an accomplished fine arts photographer; he was prominent in Republican circles and had recently stepped down as chairman of the authority overseeing Reagan and Dulles airports and the construction of Metro’s new $6 billion Silver Line. Read full article > >

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BAUMHOLDER, Germany — For more than half a century, this garrison town in the rolling hills of southwest Germany has been a small version of America, with Ford Mustangs and pickup trucks from the U.S. Army base next door threading through its medieval streets. Read full article > >

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German town fears loss of U.S. Army base

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s allies and opponents have been almost equally vocal in their criticism of him this week, calling the premier an autocrat who has failed to keep his promises. Read full article > >

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Despite mounting criticism, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s position appears strong

An appellate court announced Thursday that it will conduct a judicial misconduct review of Montana’s chief federal district judge for e-mailing what he acknowledged was a racist joke about President Obama. Read full article > >

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Judge to face judicial misconduct review for e-mailing racist joke

Score another victory for human rights. Last week, a federal district court judge in San Francisco ruled in favor of granting health insurance benefits to the same-sex spouse of a federal employee. Judge Jeffrey S. White, who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush, ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) “unconstitutionally discriminates against same-sex married couples.” Read full article > >

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Judge finds DOMA discriminatory

For two decades, the hilltop house overlooking Alexandria’s Belle Haven Country Club provided a proper traditional setting for the politically well connected. The 1936 home was formerly owned by Margaret and Marvin Bush, the youngest brother of President George W. Bush and co-founder of Winston Partners, an investment firm based in Arlington. Read full article > >

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An old-Washington home in Alexandria gets a youthful makeover

A State of the Union address is often difficult to fact-check, no matter who is president. The speech is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted, so major errors of fact are so relatively rare that they sometimes can become big news (think of George W. Bush’s “sixteen little words” about Iraq seeking uranium in Niger). At the same time, State of the Union addresses are very political speeches, an argument for the president’s policies, so context (or the perspective of opponents) is often missing. Read full article > >

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Fact-checking the 2012 State of the Union speech

Don't get too riled up over tonight's results. Since 1976, only three people who won the Iowa caucuses ended up winning the nomination: Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, and George W. Bush.

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Notes on Iowa Caucuses Past

If you thought all the political action is in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, think again: The race is heating up here in Washington social circles. No drama for Democrats officially rallying together to re-elect President Obama . More interesting to watch: D.C.’s prominent Republicans who are trying to cozy up to the party’s nominee. Back the right horse early enough and you get four years hanging out with the winner. Pick the loser and . . .well, you picked the loser: After George W. Bush prevailed in the 2000 GOP primaries, early backers of John McCain were quietly snubbed by Bush insiders. Read full article > >

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GOP primary divides Washington socialites

MITT ROMNEY is zero for two when it comes to transparency in campaigning. First, Mr. Romney — breaking with the practice of previous Republican presidential candidates, including George W. Bush and John McCain — has refused to release the identities of his bundlers , the well-connected fundraisers who help the campaign haul in stacks of checks adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Romney is under no legal obligation to reveal his bundlers, other than the relative handful who are also registered lobbyists. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s secret money

Here is a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. Do nothing. That’s right. If Congress simply fails to act between now and Jan. 1, 2013, the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush expire, $1.2 trillion in additional budget cuts go through under the terms of last summer’s debt-ceiling deal, and a variety of other tax cuts also go away. Read full article > >

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How we can succeed through supercommittee’s ‘failure’

There’s another level to Gov. Rick Perry’s self-inflicted wound, and it has to do with the most powerful commodity in American politics: authenticity.

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