Author: BooMan

Open Thread

Weekly Standard on last night’s debate: America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue...

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Chavez, Poverty, and Oil

This is how the Washington Establishment has looked at things since…well…since pretty much the beginning. But awash in petrodollars — oil accounts for about 90 percent of Venezuelan exports — Chávez commands...

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A Disturbance in the Force

Watching last night’s Republican YouTube debate was like experiencing a disturbance in the Force. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but everything seemed out of whack. Perhaps some of it emanated from the unusual...

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A Disturbance in the Force

Watching last night’s Republican YouTube debate was like experiencing a disturbance in the Force. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but everything seemed out of whack. Perhaps some of it emanated from the unusual...

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A Disturbance in the Force

Watching last night’s Republican YouTube debate was like experiencing a disturbance in the Force. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but everything seemed out of whack. Perhaps some of it emanated from the unusual...

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