Author: BooMan

A Fair Warning

Despite a certain watered-down quality to much the legislation passed so far during the 111th Congress, it stands as the most successful and progressive Congress since the 89th Congress, a full forty-five years ago. If you doubt...

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Party of No Is Still Effective

The Washington Post covers the ‘Party of Hell No’ strategy: …the barrage of “no” votes from the GOP has not abated. Emboldened by sagging approval ratings of the Democratic-controlled Congress,...

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Massive Leak-Dump of Afghan Files

A lot of sensitive information about the war in Afghanistan has been leaked thru Wikileaks, and the Guardian has set up a site to examine it. The New York Times and Der Spiegel were also recipients of the classified information...

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Damaging Netanyahu Video Emerges

This will do little to help U.S.-Israeli relations. There is one video Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been...

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The Wake-Up Call

In the world of comedy, they say you always want to leave them wanting more. I guess the Democrats have accomplished that. It’s not surprising that they told people at the Netroots Nation conference largely what they...

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