Author: BooMan

Calm the F*ck Down

Today is another day when I feel compelled to thank the heavens that John McCain and Sarah Palin are not in charge of our foreign policy: A Kremlin-backed journalist issued a stark warning to the United States about...

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Odds & Ends

Leave it to the Daily Mail to run with some really reprehensible speculation about one of the pilots of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. The New York Times has a much more responsible and less sensational piece on the...

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Hamid Karzai Says America Can Go

This is just fine with me: In his final address to Afghanistan’s parliament Saturday, President Hamid Karzai said U.S. soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military already protects 93 percent of the...

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Is It Time for a Second Cold War?

As Crimea holds an election reminiscent of Saddam Hussein’s phony plebiscites, Julia Ioffe predicts that it is all a precursor for a Russian invasion of Ukraine proper, and an annexation of its eastern half. Whether that...

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