Author: BooMan

Officially, a Non-Endorsement of the Coup

The president’s remarks on the situation in Egypt are interesting, and not only for his unorthodox rendering of President Morsi’s name. The most striking element is the expression of “deep concern” about...

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Serious Question

Anyone else find it weird to watch an Egyptian general announce a military coup on television while people fire off celebratory fireworks in the background?

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Death By Entree

It’s good that people are more aware of what they’re eating than they used to be. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has named Long John Silver’s limited-time-only Big Catch meal — the fried fish,...

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Rubio Tries Out Anti-Choice Extremism

Seeking to repair the damage he did to himself among the party faithful during the immigration reform debate, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has agreed to be the lead sponsor of the “fetal-pain” ban on abortions...

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Things Are Going Down in Egypt

I don’t know what is going to happen in Egypt today, but I suspect that the military is going to dislodge the democratically-elected government because it has lost too much support. It’s hard to say whether that is a...

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