Author: BooMan

Choosing Your Battles

It’s kind of fascinating to follow the discussion about the scheduling of the president’s appearance before a Joint Session of Congress on Twitter. Think about this. The president finally did something really...

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Rick Perry’s Do-Nothing Platform

The Texas Tribune reviews Rick Perry’s book Fed Up! so you don’t have to read it yourself. It appears to me that Mr. Perry is a socially-conservative libertarian of the worst sort. He wants the federal government to...

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Things Are Still Dicey in Libya

I don’t want to overhype the developing divisions in Libya, but don’t say I didn’t warn you that tribal and regional factions would emerge and fight over the spoils of power once Gaddafi was driven out....

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Serious Question

Do you want to answer mistermix’s question? Should we give attention to right-wing blogs in order to correct their lies and distortions, or should we starve them off oxygen by ignoring them?

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Sweet New Machine

So, I finally received my hurricane-delayed MacBook Air today. Thank you all very much for your contributions. You’ve made me very happy and CabinGirl very jealous. She even waged a Facebook campaign to have this computer...

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