Author: BooMan

Remembering Jesse Helms

Jesse Helms gave a speech at the United Nations back in 2000. It’s worth a read because it articulates very well the conservative mindset about American Exceptionalism and really helps explain why the Bush administration...

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We Have No Privacy

Why are we talking about giving the government more power to invade our privacy? The 192 million passport files maintained by the State Department contain individuals’ passport applications, which include data such as...

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A July 4th History Lesson

Hey, Happy Independence Day everybody. Do you know what is patriotic? Sticking up for the Constitution of the United States of America is patriotic. So, let’s review a little history, shall we? Let me cut and paste a...

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What Obama Can Do

I can see that Barack Obama is not going to vote against final passage of the FISA bill. He probably isn’t even going to show up to debate the bill and its amendments. I expect he will work with Harry Reid to make sure his...

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Obama Responds on FISA

Obama has responded to the 18,000 members of his site that asked him to vote against the FISA bill. I’ll do an analytical piece when I get the chance, but right now I am going to just underline the bullshit and boldface...

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