Author: BooMan

Stupid Americans Screwing Things Up

My good friend Noz and his wife have been attempting to adopt a child for many years now. They’ve been in Kazakhstan since late last year attempting to get a hearing and satisfy the authorities there that they are suitable...

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GOP Hubris

We can already see a tangible benefit from Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s decision to challenge Blanche Lincoln in a Democratic primary. Until Tuesday, the big worry among proponents of derivatives reform was that Blanche...

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SCOTUS News

I have to laugh at Lindsey Graham’s suggestion that Obama appoint “somebody that is genuinely believed to be acceptable to a wide range of people” to the Supreme Court or forget about passing climate change...

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Krauthammer Forces Me to the Archives

I don’t know quite what to make of this bit of opinion from Charles Krauthammer. In response to Obama stating the following at yesterday’s press conference… “It is a vital national security interest of the...

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Picking a Dumb Fight

There are some fights that the president will win simply by virtue of being the president. The most famous example in somewhat recent history was the government shutdown of 1995. On the merits, the Republicans might have thought...

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