Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

At some point, Matt Stoller lost his damn mind. I don’t know how you can spend long enough on the Harvard campus to earn a degree and still have such weird ideas about our elites. Peggy Noonan writes less meandering...

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Declare the War on Terror Over

If Peter Bergen is right and Ayman al-Zawahiri is the only still-living al-Qaeda leader of any consequence, then the president deserves some serious credit for getting the military focused on the main post-9/11 goal. And if...

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Thoughts on Wisconsin

There’s a danger that people will learn the wrong lessons from last night’s election returns in Wisconsin. While exit polls are imperfect, they were fairly clear last night. Among the people who voted, Obama was...

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NBC Calls WI Recall for Gov. Walker

With only about 23% of the vote reporting, NBC’s experts just called the recall election for the incumbent governor. Some other races are still too close to call. I can’t say that I’m very optimistic that...

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Things You Don’t Like to Hear

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of having the woman of your life come home from an exhausting day at work, collapse on the couch with her iPad to see the news of the day, and have her say, “Oh for...

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