Author: BooMan

My Hero, George W. Bush

Calling it Nerd Prom is an insult to nerds. It’s a Sycophant Dinner. The best thing they can possibly do is to invite a comedian who will tell the truth about them, as happened with Stephen Colbert in 2006: I wish that...

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What Ezra Said

I agree with everything that Ezra Klein has to say about the decision to fix airport delays without addressing anything else being harmed by sequestration. I’m basically mystified at this point. I get why Congress wants to...

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What About Young Men Who Lead?

Cameron Abadi is a former Fox International Fellow from Yale University’s MacMillan Center where typical senior fellows include folks like former Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) chief Stanley McChrystal and the...

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Casual Observation

There are so many possibilities, but the design of the system assures that we cannot be confident of ever getting the truth. One thing that is odd, however, is that the FBI thinks that the best way to prevent al-Qaeda from...

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You Don’t Deter Attacks By Inciting Them

I want to quote from Jeremy Scahill’s interview yesterday with Amy Goodman. Scahill is doing the rounds in promotion of his new book: Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Whatever else you want to say about the book, it...

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