Author: BooMan

Learning from Iraq

I’m actually happy that our effort to train Iraqi police officers is a total failure and is being largely abandoned. It’s not that I don’t want the Iraqis to have effective and well-equipped police. And...

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Riffing Off Mitt Romney

Is seems like everyone is riffing off Romney’s high school bullying incident. Edmund White is particularly brutal in the New Yorker, while Georgia Logothetis blisters Romney at Daily Kos. I’m a little impatient with...

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Romney Ain’t Obama

At the end of a painful article on Romney’s efforts to pivot to the center, John Harwood writes this for the New York Times: Four years ago, the relatively inexperienced Mr. Obama sought to build his stature with a speech...

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What GOP Pollsters Tell the GOP

Someone called my attention to a memo that Andrew Sullivan obtained. It is from a well-respected GOP pollster and it discusses public opinion of issues of concern to the gay community. Go check out the details if you are...

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