Author: BooMan

Election Night Thread

Well, it’s election night again and another incumbent went down to defeat. South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis got thumped out of office with an exclamation point. He voted against the Iraqi troop surge of 2007, and supports a...

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Judge Slaps Injunction on Moratorium

Oy! The Obama administration will immediately appeal a federal judge’s decision to strike down its six-month moratorium on offshore drilling. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration would appeal a...

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McChrystal is a Distraction

All the focus on the Rolling Stone article seems to be focused on the disparaging comments of Stanley McChrystal and his senior staff. Clearly, McChrystal has set himself up to get cashiered. He’ll meet the president...

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Wanker of the Day: Richard Cohen

I am actually reaching whatever the next stage is after impatience and exasperation with these Beltway pundits’ efforts to psychoanalyze the president’s ‘maimed soul.’ This morning it is Richard...

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One Nation Under a Groove

I don’t know if you noticed but Starchild died of lung cancer last Wednesday, leaving us without the premier funk guitarist in the world. Garry Shider, the funk-rock guitarist and singer whose spacey but soulful and...

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