Author: BooMan

Some Thoughts on Pakistan

Karin Brulliard and Karen DeYoung report in the Washington Post that no one on the American side seems to be able to convince the Pakistanis to help us clear North Waziristan of militants. This is a rather important problem...

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Changing the Senate Rules…Do It

Will the Senate Dems change the rules of the Senate on January 5th? How will it work? What’s likely to happen? You can get a decent primer on all of this from Brian Beutler over at TPMDC. I think the answer to the first...

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Will 2011 Be the Year of Israel?

I don’t know that Shimon Peres can do much about it one way or the other, but I think there is a good chance that something is going to give in 2011. I can’t see us going another year with the status quo on the peace...

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Don’t Call Her a Maniac

See, I don’t like to see Christine O’Donnell called a maniac. For me, ‘maniac’ has a menacing connotation, as if there is at least a small chance that Ms. O’Donnell will lose her temper and snap my...

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Gore Vidal Will Turn You Republican

I like some of his books but I think it is fair to say that Gore Vidal is the prototypical self-loathing liberal American. Republicans sometimes call this the “Blame America First” phenomenon, but that was never...

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