Author: BooMan

Musical Maryland Chairs

I’ve seen Kathleen Matthews appear on her husband’s Hardball program a few times, but I don’t really know anything about her beyond what they’re writing in their profiles now that she’s expressed...

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The War on Terror is a Racket

You probably first became aware of former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren when he became disgusted by the debt-ceiling fiasco, quit his job, and went public with a scathing tell-all article at Truthout.org in September 2011....

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Team Biden Shows a Sign of Life

Team Biden throws a blow. Dick Harpootlian, a former Democratic Party chairman in South Carolina, home to an early and important presidential primary, said recent reports about Clinton’s use of private e-mail to conduct...

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No One Could Have Predicted

After the Bush administration reacted to the 9/11 attacks, the breach of the levees in New Orleans, the sectarian warfare in Iraq, and the collapse of the Housing Bubble by telling us that no one could have predicted them, I...

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Does the GOP Love Jews or Not?

It’s hard not to get whiplash these days while watching the modern GOP in action. On a day in which they made the most headlines by giving, in Jon Stewart’s words, the visiting Israeli prime minister “the...

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