Author: BooMan

Neo-Con Nonsense

Remember when I said that President Obama was going to receive severe criticism for standing up to his own foreign policy establishment? The neo-cons are honing their critiques. William Kristol was on CSPAN this morning blasting...

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Odds & Ends

The math looks good for NYC mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. Sen. Ed Markey is fighting for your phone privacy. Coal mining companies are losing in court? In Tennessee? Crossing the Atlantic with a cluster of helium-filled...

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Casual Observation

The Republicans have “no idea” how there are going to manage to raise the debt ceiling. We really ought to start thinking about what that means. Because it’s really simple to raise the debt ceiling. It’s...

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Is This the End of an Era?

A lot of hard work and solid analysis went into Peter Beinart’s piece in The Daily Beast. We should discuss it. Let me open the floor to the readers. What do you think?

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Why Syria is Hard

Vladimir Putin has succeeded in getting the New York Times to publish a column detailing his views on the Syria situation. He took the opportunity to critique U.S. foreign policy more generally, but that isn’t particularly...

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