Author: BooMan

Let’s Not Get Carried Away

I think it’s important that all U.S. citizens are afforded their constitutional rights, even when they are accused of committing a mass casualty attack. And it’s important that people understand what their rights...

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Coming to Our Milk

Joe Biden agrees with John McCain that the government should share what they’ve learned about the torture committed during the Bush administration. Then Biden goes further and compares Bush and Cheney to Slobodan...

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Let’s Have 33 Votes on Background Checks

It turns out that cowering before the NRA’s Board of Directors is not a wise political move. Public Policy Polling is finding substantial erosion in the approval rating of several senators who opposed universal background...

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Tomorrow Another Blue Dog Dies

Massachusetts voters go to the polls tomorrow to select the nominees to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate. When Rep. Stephen Lynch voted against ObamaCare, he was presumably thinking that some big-money boys would reward him...

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A Dirty War, Indeed

What? Afghanistan doesn’t have direct deposit? A bank account in Cyprus won’t do? While intelligence agencies often pay foreign officials to provide information, dropping off bags of cash at a foreign leader’s office...

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