Public Notice: Meanwhile, Back on January 6

Congressional hearings are demanding a reckoning

"...a really fun Rosenkrantz-and-Guildenstern-ish depiction of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in their early days, an over-the-top Shea Wigham..."

July 1, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

American Dharma

Steve Bannon dissected by the great Errol Morris

"...secretary of defense: In The Unknown Known, it was Donald Rumsfeld tying himself in knots with his skin-deep intellectualism...."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Vice

Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve

"...his best gal Lynne, to a yes man under Donald Rumsfeld’s tutelage in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer

"...Academy Award), the even more controversial Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (The Unknown Known), the torturers of Abu Ghraib..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Low Turnout or Bad Law?: Voter ID Effects Uncertain

Turnout boost heaviest in counties with local referendums

"...recall the gnomic phrases of former Defense Department Sec. Donald Rumsfeld trying to explain what went wrong in Iraq...."

Nov. 15, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dive Into the Great 'Unknown'

Errol Morris and Don Rumsfeld take us on a tour of U.S. history

"...During a speech in February 2012, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a famous statement on weapons of mass..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Errol Morris' Badassedness To Be Made Official

Legendary documentarian will be fêted at Fantastic Fest 2013

"...Known, a one-on-one interview with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. (The title is taken from a 2002 press..."

Sept. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Council Briefed on F1 Prep Work

Crowd and traffic control present biggest challenges

"...Remember when Donald Rumsfeld mused about known unknowns vs. unknown unknowns? It..."

June 22, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...Cheney wasn't a Straussian, neither was [Donald] Rumsfeld. When he was secretary of defense – the..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: The Second Story

Remembering the cowardice and dysfunction of the White House on 9 / 11

"...10 hours after the attack began, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave the first live press conference by someone..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Perry, Pakistan, and the Bush Revival

Analyzing the foreign policy value of the Musharraf lunch

"...and Strategy William Luti. Both men were acolytes of Donald Rumsfeld: Luti headed up the Office of Special Plans,..."

July 19, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Strayhorn the Populist

Ex-mayor visits City Hall, blazing another nuclear trail

"...To paraphrase experimental poet Donald Rumsfeld, you gotta go with the democracy you have,..."

April 30, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Green Zone

With Matt Damon's Bourne director at the helm, the actor plays an officer in Iraq who's mystified by why he's unable to uncover any WMDs.

"...That said, referring to the near-instantaneous cock-up in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld infamously quipped, "Democracy is messy." Deliberate obfuscation of..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Obama Just a Front Man for the Company

"...Saddam in the Eighties, and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Donald Rumsfeld's hand-picked assassination squad leader in Iraq? I, too,..."

Dec. 3, 2009 Postmarks

Tech Game a True Test for Longhorns

Revenge? Nah. Longhorns channel Travalena in prep for Tech.

"...cartoon characters including Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Robert De Niro, Donald Rumsfeld, Bruce Springsteen and Graham Harrell (just kidding)...."

Sept. 18, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Team Torture Named

Senate armed services committee pulls no punches over torture policy allegations

"...legal framework/series of loopholes. That includes Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, Assistant Attorney..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

High-End Shopping in a War Zone

Stop-lossed Austin soldier's latest video shows the other way contractors make money out of troops in Iraq

"...where "The impossibly beautiful DA serves a subpoena on Donald Rumsfeld."..."

Nov. 19, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

John Dean on Bush

The former White House counsel reveals just how far we've (not) come since Nixon

"...There are many other former Nixonites: ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (whom Nixon called a "ruthless little bastard," as..."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Conversation With John Dean

"...JD: You're speaking of Rumsfeld and Cheney?..."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Music of the Spheres

We cannot work together unless we can talk to each other

"...not a popular position. Suggesting that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are misguided and wrong rather than evil is..."

June 20, 2008 Column by Louis Black

More From the Floor

Chelsea Clinton makes it to the convention

"...of silence for Tom Delay. And Dennis Hastert. And Donald Rumsfeld. And Karl Rove. And thank god, George Bush."..."

June 6, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Is Space the Place for the Next Arms Race?

Independent Institute fellow Mike Moore on how to avoid an arms race in space

"...Chicago, Moore said that he would sometimes run into Donald Rumsfeld at public policy gatherings and the like, and..."

March 20, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

Still a Good Day

Ice Cube's coexisting Gs: gangsta rap and G-rated

"...a dark, minimalist beat as footage of Abu Ghraib, Donald Rumsfeld, and Hurricane Katrina scrolls by. The message is..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Growth Hormones Are an Important Topic

"...Monsanto employment relations, past and present: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld – former president of Searle Pharmaceuticals, owned by..."

March 7, 2008 Postmarks

Point Austin: About Us

A reminder of just how bad things have gotten

"...of Defense Robert Gates, who reluctantly inherited Guantanamo from Donald Rumsfeld, Grigg said, "I don't believe the world will..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.

"...the Room) rips to shreds former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's "a few bad apples" explanation for the outrageous..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playing Through

On baseball juicers and the president: Get away with whatever you can

"...Miguel Tejada, Ken Caminiti, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet ......"

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Thomas Hackett

The Theme of the Interconnectivity of Humanity

"...to death while a minimum-wage prison guard (cameo by Donald Rumsfeld) sleeps off his Boone's Farm hangover...."

Dec. 16, 2007 Postmarks

No End in Sight

If you're growing as weary of Iraq war documentaries as you are of the war itself, then this sobering, information-filled study of the war's origins is the film for you.

"...of Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer, war architect Donald Rumsfeld (who here comes off looking like Robert McNamarra's..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Papa's Brand-New Bag

Jazzers and jam bands alike just wanna funk, Austin style

"...it be considered jazz?" asks Garcia, doing his best Donald Rumsfeld impersonation. "Sure. Is it something you want to..."

July 27, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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