Author: BooMan

Nice Way to Start a Campaign

It doesn’t look like Lindsey Graham’s visit to Egypt (at the president’s request) did anything to calm the generals, but I think this response is a bit extreme: State Sen. Lee Bright announced his candidacy...

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What Humility Is And Isn’t

The right’s recent obsession with Howard Zinn is probably counterproductive. The more attention they give him, the more people will be curious about the controversy and pick up one of his books. The more they try to keep...

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Ready For BookerTime?

Sorry, Alex, it looks like New Jersey Democrats didn’t even come close to taking your advice. With half the vote in, Cory Booker is cracking 60% in a four-way race. Frank Pallone is in second place with 22%. So, Cory...

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Can de Blasio Give New Life to Liberalism?

It’s hard to believe that it has been 20 years since New York City last had a Democratic mayor. I don’t know what you want to call Michael Bloomberg, but he isn’t a Democrat. I don’t know whether or not...

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Leftover Stench

Pat Buchanan was born in segregated Washington DC in 1938. He wants to know if the country he grew up in really resembled Nazi Germany. The answer is ‘no,’ but it did resemble South Africa during the apartheid era....

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