Author: BooMan

It’s All Lady Gaga’s Fault

Bret Stephens takes disingenuousness to a new level today in the Wall Street Journal. Stephens examines some of the writings of Sayyid Qutb and concludes that Lady Gaga is much more of a security threat to the United States than...

Read More

Quote of the Day

Uh-huh: “No intelligence organization discusses publicly who it may or may not deal with overseas,” CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said Tuesday. “But if anyone thinks this agency is supporting drug dealers,...

Read More

Shooting Yourself in the Foot

For decades conservatives have worked to see that blacks and latinos are undercounted in the Census. Now they are voluntarily disenfranchising themselves by refusing to send in the forms. Should we be happy about that? After...

Read More

Obama and the New Netroots

I enjoyed reading Chris Bowers’s recent piece on losing the argument to President Obama. It’s an admission that Obama has support from an overwhelming percentage of self-styled progressives in this country. Nowhere...

Read More

Does Karzai Owe His Life to Diem?

Sometimes I wonder if the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem is the reason that Hamid Karzai is still alive and nominally in control of Afghanistan. As bad as Diem was, things only got worse in South Vietnam after Kennedy had him...

Read More