It took George W. Bush eight years to bring his spirit of bipartisanship to Washington – President Barack Obama escorted the former president and his wife to their helicopter

On his radio show this morning. Claims he likes many of the candidates, but only Rep. Bachmann has the ability to really bring about change in Washington, has the exceptional strength of character to be a president along the lines of Washington or Lincoln and understands the Constitution like he does.

"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it." -- Winston Churchill "Those that fail to learn their history, are doomed to allow others to repeat it." -- Your author The largest bank failure in history occurred this week, but possibly passed you by. With $307 billion in assets, Washington Mutual was seized by federal regulators on Thursday evening. The reason that this event rec...

This article argues that he is . If so, then this is a worrying sign. A hallmark of freedom is that a society should be free to examine its own past. And it should be free to research and to bring to attention the more unsavoury aspects of its history. Only by doing so can a country avoid repeating its mistakes.

There seems to be some interest in the news that a prime minister of a minor country today visited the president of the United States. But the biggest news by far in Washington comprises two stories – firstly that Washington was to be the venue of "the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in US history" and the second, that "global warming" (pictured) dumped over six inches of sno...

And now we can breathe again. Dubya is consigned to the dustbin of history. Surely historians will judge him and I can't imagine him turning round his reputation. He left office as the most unpopular president in history and regarded by many - including me - as a strong candidate for the title of worst President (yep, even worse than Nixon). But we'll leave him, lifting off from Washington on what...

The view from the top of the steps on the Lincoln Memorial on in Washington, DC is one of the finest views in the American capital. You look across the reflecting pool, down the national mall to the Washington Monument and to the Capitol beyond. Standing there, at the place where Martin Luther King delivered his ‘I have a dream' speech, you can almost feel the arc of American history be...

Getty Images McCain has some big shoes to fill as the Republican National Convention concludes tonight with his much-anticipated speech. Mark Salter, the senator's speech writer, says McCain's remarks tonight will drive home his personal story and his record of challenging the Washington establishment. He will call on the entire political culture of Washington to start putting their coun...

I USED to think the road signs on entering Washington should carry a warning something along the lines of “abandon hope all ye who enter”.

Snooty, educated elitist Anne Applebaum reckons DC already has more than enough populists, thank you: ...Small-town Republicans have figured among the most powerful and most prominent Washington politicians for much of the past decade. The result: Washington, however stuffy it may once have been, is no longer in need of "a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street." Washington is in...