Author: BooMan

What Glenn said: To those blithely dismissing all of this as things that don’t seem particularly bothersome, I’d say two things: (1) The fact that we are not really bothered any more by taking helpless detainees in...

Michael Tomasky writes a column in the Guardian that I largely agree with. I am a liberal. And I have come to know a lot of very politically active liberals in my lifetime. And I think a lot of them are way out on the fringe. I...

Comes from Powerline’s Assrocket: Having read the CIA report in its entirety, I am struck once again by how humane our treatment of captured terrorists was intended to be, and generally was. The handful of incidents...

Muslims, like Jews, circumcise their male children. Circumcision is much rarer in the Christian world (as there is no religious mandate for it) but it did become quite normal in the mid-to-late 20th-Century among American...

It’s not just that the press hasn’t been honest about the extent of our barbarism during the Bush administration, it’s that they are actively in denial about it. Any cursory glance at the analysis being done...