Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

In the least surprising news of the day, a federal judge has put an injunction on key parts of the Arizona immigration law, ruling that the Justice Department is likely to win its case arguing that the bill unconstitutionally...

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What’s In a Lynching?

I never heard of Jeffrey Lord before yesterday, but he’s a badly confused individual with appallingly poor judgment and taste. It all started for Lord when he decided that Shirley Sherrod lied when she said a relative of...

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Budgetary Chaos

There is a difference between responsible budgeting and campaign promises, but Obama cannot survive a broken promise on preserving Bush’s tax cuts for the middle class. What I hope we’re seeing is a rare example of...

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Casual Observation

A true test of whether the Republicans have any grown-ups left is whether any of them will follow the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dick Lugar, in ratifying the START Treaty. There are some grown-ups...

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War Funding Passes

Check out the Roll Call on the supplemental funds for Iraq and Afghanistan (and other purposes). I don’t have the time right now to calculate percentages, but it looks like the vast majority of the Black and Hispanic...

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