Tonight President George W. Bush bids the nation his official farewell, the final address he will deliver from behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. It may be said that no president who has ever sat behind that desk lived up to its name more than the 43rd president. For good or ill, George W. Bush is and always will be his own man. As Mark Steyn recently asked in National Review: Do you realize how rare that is? Regrettably, our nation is afflicted with the shortest of attention spans. We are overloaded with information and long memories seem increasingly rare. But it is necessary to remember the atmosphere in which this president took office. There was an attempted coup through the courts to overturn his election before he arrived in Washington. When he was finally permitted to take his rightful place, his staffers found government computers trashed and executive offices ransacked by those who stood by and defended a perjuring reprobate. Keep that in mind as the incoming...(Read Full Post)