Author: BooMan

Three Senate Candidates

It’s hard to say what kind of senator Richard Carmona would be. But I think he has a good chance to beat Rep. Jeff Flake and become the junior senator from Arizona. Mr. Carmona served as Surgeon General under George W....

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Afghanistan in the News

Republicans go around saying that the president has mismanaged the war in Afghanistan but if he defends himself, he’s just politicizing our successes. It’s a version of ‘heads I win, tails you lose,’ and...

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Today in Wingnuttia

The homophobia on the right is so bad that it has even appalled Jennifer Rubin. Richard Grenell was recently hired by the Romney campaign to be a spokesman on foreign policy issues. But, because Mr. Grenell is openly gay, this...

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An Indescribably Stupid Man

If Jackson Diehl is a thoughtless warmonger, Richard Cohen is an indescribably stupid man. Everything I said about Diehl’s advocacy of war with Syria can be said six-fold about Cohen’s argument. I’m not even...

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Why I Am So Optimistic

We have records of the popular vote in our presidential elections going back to 1824. In all that time, there have been only 11 presidents who were elected to a second (consecutive) term. With the exception of the first, Andrew...

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