Author: BooMan

Is Climate Change a National Security Issue?

I don’t have an informed opinion about the replacement of Jim Jones with Tom Donilon as National Security Adviser. But I do think something in the following clip is newsworthy. …Jones, former commandant of the Marine...

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Blue Dog Populism

Stan Greenberg and James Carville discover the obvious. People are not responding to the message that we want to “move forward” while the Republicans want to “go back to the failed policies of the past.”...

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What You Don’t Want in a Congressman

I can kinda, almost understand the appeal of dressing up like a Nazi and doing World World Two reenactments. When I was a teenager, I played a lot of Avalon Hill board games (mainly Squad Leader) and I always played as the...

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Overly Casual

The sloppy FBI work is appalling, but the young man’s casual attitude is what really surprised me. If I am Arab-American, I’m on the Watch List, my friend is posting stupid stuff on the internet about bombs and...

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A Note of Optimism

I’ve been saying this for a while in a variety of ways. Not too long ago campaign reporters were stripped of their press tags if they did not invoke Tip O’Neill’s mantra (“All politics is local”) in...

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