Author: BooMan

London is not a Battlefield

If you fervently wish for and pretend you are in a crisis for long enough, you will eventually create a crisis. We’re not quite there yet, and Britain is determined that we not get there. The words “war on...

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Lieberman Doing No Oversight

Mother Jones: Quiet as a mouse. There certainly have been gaffes, softballs, and missed opportunities. And the most obvious are found in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security—the Senate’s version of Rep. Henry...

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Bill Kristol Has a Job to Do at NYT’s

It’s amazing how much we’ve learned over the last four years. We’ve learned about how a large segment of the Democratic Party is sympathetic to neo-conservatism and doesn’t care about our civil liberties...

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Open Thread

I’m off to the Big Apple, so light posting today. If you could use this opportunity to solve all the world’s problems, that would be excellent.

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Noonan: No Crazies, No Hairdryers

It’s come to this. Peggy Noonan has a request: This is my 2008 slogan: Reasonable Person for President. That is my hope, what I ask Iowa to produce, and I claim here to speak for thousands, millions. We are grown-ups, we...

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