Read more Colin Powell stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8695/colin-powell.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:20:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72651/bush-a-winner-as-motivational-speaker.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGeorge W. Bush commanded a 15,000-strong crowd at a motivational megashow in Dallas last night, flanked by signs reading "Achieve!" and "Motivate!" but not by the pyrotechnics that greeted other speakers—Secret Service said no. Bush told stories of both "great and not so great" days in office, saying...http://www.newser.com/story/72651/bush-a-winner-as-motivational-speaker.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 7:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72206/dubyas-new-gig-motivational-guru.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt sure ain't the G8: George W. Bush, nine months retired, is headlining a motivational speaking "mega show" in Fort Worth next week, which promises "more inspirational firepower than a stick of dynamite!" As the event's screaming website reveals, the former president is appearing alongside Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani,...http://www.newser.com/story/72206/dubyas-new-gig-motivational-guru.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 7:41:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69191/powell-praises-gallant-heroes-of-united-flight-93.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagColin Powell today honored the "gallant heroes" of United Flight 93 who fought back against their hijackers 8 years ago today. At a ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., where the plane went down, he likened them to the "citizen soldiers" who have fought for the US since its inception. "They refused...http://www.newser.com/story/69191/powell-praises-gallant-heroes-of-united-flight-93.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 12:58:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65559/powell-gates-cops-both-at-fault.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSpeaking to Larry King about Henry Louis Gates’ arrest, Colin Powell said he’d faced racial profiling “many times,” and suggested both the professor and the police were at fault in the incident, the Huffington Post reports. Gates “should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make...http://www.newser.com/story/65559/powell-gates-cops-both-at-fault.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Jul 2009 7:08:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60115/cheney-limbaugh-cant-touch-powell-in-popularity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Dick Cheney got in a fight with Colin Powell, it looks like he was punching above his weight class. Cheney dismissed Powell’s views on the Republican Party’s direction, saying, “I didn’t think he was still a Republican”—a comment echoed by Rush Limbaugh. But CNN reports a poll that...http://www.newser.com/story/60115/cheney-limbaugh-cant-touch-powell-in-popularity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 26 May 2009 9:56:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59989/powell-to-rush-im-not-leaving-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSorry, Rush Limbaugh: Colin Powell isn’t leaving the Republican Party. Striking back at critics, the general burnished his GOP credentials on Face the Nation today. “Rush will not get his wish, and Mr Cheney was misinformed” about Powell’s supposed exit from the party. Powell added that if the GOP isn’t...http://www.newser.com/story/59989/powell-to-rush-im-not-leaving-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 24 May 2009 11:03:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59631/limbaugh-powell-escalate-war-of-words.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe verbal war between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell has actually ticked up a notch. On his show today, Limbaugh resigned as “the titular head of the Republican Party” and sarcastically appointed Powell in his place, reports Media Matters. He blasted Powell as a representative of the “worn-out GOP that...http://www.newser.com/story/59631/limbaugh-powell-escalate-war-of-words.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 15:55:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59119/abortion-purity-test-is-new-to-republicans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAbortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe : The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater supported a woman’s right to...http://www.newser.com/story/59119/abortion-purity-test-is-new-to-republicans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 13:45:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59123/cheney-didnt-even-torture-for-right-reasons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe interrogation methods Dick Cheney so highly touts were put in place in 2002 not to prevent another terror attack, a former aide to Colin Powell writes in the Washington Note , but to dig up an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection to justify going to war. And it was Cheney himself, “frightened” by...http://www.newser.com/story/59123/cheney-didnt-even-torture-for-right-reasons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 11:40:51 CDT