Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

I want to praise David Frum for his new role as the conscience of the right. I agree with him completely on everything he has to say to his brethren in the conservative media, with the exception of this part. When Dan Rather...

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Understanding the Obstruction

What the Mustache of Understanding doesn’t understand is that there is no reasoning with the Republican Party. There is a very narrow window in the Senate where certain very limited things can be done. It is possible to...

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Vilsack or Obama Must Reinstate Sherrod

After the NAACP called on the Tea Party to condemn the racism in its midst, Andrew Breitbart promised to produce a tape of “racism…at a NAACP dinner” and told the president of the NAACP to “go to...

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Lindsey Graham Now a Pariah

I’m pretty sure that Lindsey Graham was going to get a primary challenge anyway, but voting for Elena Kagan in committee definitely assures one. He has four years to prepare for it and a lot of things will have changed by...

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Not a Christian Nation, Originally

Juan Cole makes a good find in his rebuttal of Sarah Palin’s ‘refudiate’ tweet in opposition to the building of a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center. He pulled up language from the Treaty of Tripoli...

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