Author: BooMan

The Silence of Wingnuts

Forget building a mosque at ground zero, let’s just give them an air force. That’ll learn ’em. It’s celebration time for our defense industry, cuz the Saudis have their checkbook out in a BIG way. “I...

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Why the GOP is Acting Crazy

If alienating the Latino vote is guaranteed to kill the Republican Party in future elections, why are they going so overboard to do it? Well, what gets the biggest applause line in this little GOP get-together? [hint: it comes...

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G.M. is Back on its Feet

This has to be very disappointing for Republicans. The quarterly profit reported on Thursday marked G.M.’s strongest financial performance since 2004, and set the stage for the automaker to file for an initial public offering,...

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Assisting Pakistan

In the battle for hearts and minds, this will do more than any military action: The Pakistanis rescued Wednesday were among more than 2,700 picked up over the past week by six U.S. choppers that have also delivered bags of flour...

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The Oddball Candidates

While I consider a lot of the progressive anger at the administration to involve a degree of naïveté about how Congress functions, the Tea Partiers are no more informed. Alexander Burns examines in Poltico the question of...

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