Author: BooMan

Fukuyama Down Under

The view from Australia: FRANCIS Fukuyama is the American public intellectual who pronounced the end of history 19 years ago and was a neo-conservative, an idea and an ideology that both suggest he is out of date. To the...

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Suck on This Day in Sadr City

Here is how Iraqis celebrated Suck on This Day: Thousands of Iraqis filled the streets of Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood this afternoon to demonstrate against a long-term United States presence in Iraq, the first...

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Close Enough to Taste

I can feel the end of this primary season. I can feel the breakthrough in the dam that has held up progressivism for 40 solid years. You wanna know what we’ve got coming for John McCain? Here’s what. That’s RFK...

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Suck on This Day: The Monster Within

As Atrios notes, today is the five year anniversary of Tom Friedman’s appearance on the Charlie Rose show, where he justified the invasion of Iraq as an opportunity for American soldiers to burst the bubble of Arabs’...

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