Author: BooMan

Oklahoma City Hit Hard by Tornado

Southwest Oklahoma City was just devastated by an enormous tornado. Briarwood Elementary School (I think) was ripped apart and there were kids there at the time. A lot of neighborhoods are flattened. There are a lot of people...

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Leaking Versus Whistleblowing

Stephen Jin-Woo Kim was an adviser to the State Department on Korean matters who, in 2009, leaked a classified report to Fox News reporter James Rosen. The report relied on sources in the North Korean government, and it revealed...

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A Den of Iniquity

In soliciting responses to the question of the degree of American responsibility for the war crimes and acts of genocide that just earned former Guatemalan strongman Efraín Ríos Montt an 80-year prison sentence, the New York...

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It’s Always the 1960’s

Thinking about this piece by Armando, I was suddenly reminded of something. During the 1990’s, when the Republicans were attacking Bill Clinton for being a non-inhaling pot-smoker and a draft-dodger and a philanderer, a...

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Obama at Morehouse

Obama delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College today. Here’s some coverage of that. Obama said that too many young black men make “bad choices.” “Growing up, I made quite a few myself,” Obama said....

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