Author: BooMan

You Can’t Rehabilitate Lee Atwater

Poppy Bush’s campaign manager Lee Atwater repented after he was stricken with an inoperable brain tumor at the age of thirty-nine. “In 1988,” Mr. Atwater said, “fighting Dukakis, I said that I...

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Into the Wayback Machine

Here is the beginning of the hearing on the National Security Agency held by the Church Committee which occurred on October 29th, 1975. The Chairman was Frank Church, a Democratic senator from Idaho who had presidential...

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Rep. Peter King Has a Lotta Brass

How do you define terrorism? And what constitutes support for terrorism? Let’s take a look at Rep. Peter King (R-NY) who represents a district on Long Island. “We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women...

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They Can’t Stop Themselves

Twenty weeks from today it will be October 30th. Is that six months from now? June is the sixth month of the year. October is the tenth. October 30th is four months and eighteen days from now. So, if you were to get pregnant...

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The Subtle Dogs of War

It’s interesting to look at Liz Sly’s Washington Post piece on the situation in Syria and how it is benefiting Iran. There is a subtlety about it, but it defines the war in Syria as basically a proxy war between Iran...

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