Author: BooMan

Obama Falling Short on Civil Liberties

I give Charlie Savage of the New York Times credit for reporting on the many ways in which President Obama has continued national security policies of the Bush administration that are inconsistent with basic civil liberties. I...

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Timid, Vulnerable, Conservative Democrats

Getting back to the things I wrote about earlier in the day, the election of Al Franken is going to change some of the dynamics in Washington DC. It isn’t going to be anywhere near as dramatic as when Jim Jeffords of...

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Serious Question

Does Mark Sanford realize that if his wife accepts him back and he doesn’t have to resign as governor then his sons will learn that there are no consequences for adultery? I mean, he claims to want those two...

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Casual Frustrated Observation

I wish there was some legal way to make the Republicans stop making shit up about ACORN. But there isn’t. So, the only thing to do is to keep decimating their numbers every time we have elections.

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Open Thread

Did you know that Al Franken played baggage handler #1 in the Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd movie Trading Places?

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