Author: BooMan

Speculation

I know there is not a lot to talk about these days, but there’s no point in speculating about every single anonymously sourced “leak” about cabinet appointments. It’s only slightly more productive to...

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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

If it’s true that Hillary Clinton has been offered the job of Secretary of State, maybe she will get a real opportunity to dodge sniper fire one day. Who knows? I don’t really care very much if she gets the job. I,...

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Wanker of the Day: John Derbyshire

Okay, English majors, please do me a favor and grade this paper: Hmm. As the parent of two teenagers, I come out in hives when someone tells me something is “cool.” As for “sexually repressed bigoted”...

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Retribution is Actually Justice

I don’t agree that Dick Cheney should be shipped to the Hague to answer for human rights violations. I don’t see any good reason why the United States’ courts can’t take care of adjudicating...

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Violent Opposition

You know, I opposed the war in Iraq, if not quite from the very beginning, at least by August of 2003. By that time I had learned that we’d been thoroughly lied to and that we were headed into a quagmire. I never claimed...

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