Author: BooMan

Shock and Awe Strategies

DeWayne Wickam has the right idea. The Republicans are engaged in a variation of the shock and awe campaign used against Saddam Hussein. It’s not meant to make Obama’s troops lose the will to fight, but to weaken...

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Eppur Si Muove

This is so ridiculous: House Republicans rejected amendments offered Tuesday by Democrats that called on Congress to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, that it is caused in large part by human...

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We Can’t Always Be Good Guys

While this New York Times article is mainly about U.S-Saudi relations being strained by, among other things, Saudi Arabia’s decision to send troops into Bahrain, it fails to mention that the Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy is...

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Unhappy Thoughts

It’s too bad our government is paralyzed by ideologues or we might be able to take advantage of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl to get serious about alternative energy. It’s hard not to get depressed about...

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Grover Norquist is Now a Centrist

We’ve reached a point in Republican politics in this country where Grover “Drown the Federal Government in a bathtub” Norquist is representing the moderate, Establishment-wing of the party. Norquist supports...

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