Author: BooMan

Open Thread

Chrysler is closing all its plants until Jan. 19th. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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On Rick Warren

I don’t care about the politics of it, which may be beneficial to Obama’s legislative goals; I care that inviting gay-bashing preacherman Rick Warren to do the inauguration invocation is gratuitous and mean-spirited....

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Brendan Takes on Mayor Nutter

Brendan’s war to save Philly public pools and libraries gets some serious recognition in the Philadelphia Weekly. Part wiseass and part history buff, Brendan Skwire isn’t the ordinary white-gentrifier-in-the-’hood that he...

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George Tenet’s Drunk Pool Party

This scene certainly has the air of plausibility. Patrick Tyler paints the picture in his new book A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East–From the Cold War to the War on Terror. DCI George Tenet is in...

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Obama’s Charm Offensive

Even though Republicans show few signs that they are humbled by their recent electoral losses and almost no ability to change, they will change because people adapt to their environment, and the power structure in Washington has...

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