Author: BooMan

Profile in Courage

I just want to say that despite the fact I disagree with at least 95% of the votes he casts and I can’t understand why he goes along with the Republicans’ shenanigans, Dick Lugar has real political courage, and that...

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The Only Mountaintop…

The Hill reports that the Republicans are making absolutely no adjustments in reaction to the Tucson Massacre: “The Pledge to America is our plan,” Kevin Smith, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), told The...

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Something to think about today. “Except for Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Martin Luther King, Jr., in 12 years and 4 months from 1956 to 1968, did more to achieve political, economic, and social...

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Can a Brother Get Some Credit?

The CIA created a vicious terrorist named Luis Posada Carriles in the 1960’s to use against Fidel Castro’s regime. To give but one example, he blew up Cubana Flight 455 in 1976 (a flight that took off from Barbados...

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