Author: BooMan

Someone Who Knows Her Kool-Aid

Weird flashbacks to my childhood: SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Jackie Speier may be heading back to Washington, nearly 30 years after she was shot and left for dead on a Guyana airstrip while on a fact-finding trip into the Jim Jones...

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Obama’s Patriotism

I’m not one of those people that were ever enthralled with Kennedy’s Camelot. I’m too young. My introduction to the Kennedys was the Teddy version, circa his petulant primary challenge to Jimmy Carter. I have...

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Movie Thread

From the end of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Raoul Duke: We’re all wired into a survival trip now… no more of the speed that fueled the 60’s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed...

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Israel’s Rocket Problem

While Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz were fantasizing about solving all of Israel’s problems by taking down every Arab and Persian leader, one by one, and installing some kind of pro-American, pro-Israel series of...

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