Author: BooMan

Iraqification Isn’t Working

The current situation in Iraq is eerily familiar to the situation in Vietnam at the beginning of 1971, and not because of the number of years we’ve been fully committed. In late 1970, Nixon was fearful that the North...

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Open Thread

John McCain was on Don Imus’ radio show this morning. I guess you can associate with a guy that thinks it’s funny to call student-athletes ‘nappy-headed hos’ but somehow a problem to go to church with the...

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Broken Promises, Broken Hearts

Barack Obama’s father was Kenyan and his mother was a white woman from Kansas. Bill Richardson’s father was a white banker from California and his mother was a Mexican, named María Luisa López-Collada Márquez. Barack...

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The Risk/Benefit Analysis

About a month ago I went through the fundraising numbers for every congressional district to try to get a sense for how many districts are going to be competitive in November. And one of the biggest surprises was the stunning...

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