Author: BooMan

On Frank Rich, Hillary, and Iran

Frank Rich is sticking his head in the sand: A full-scale regional war, chaos in the oil market, an overstretched American military pushed past the brink — all to take down a little thug like Ahmadinejad (who isn’t even Iran’s...

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Musharraf Equals Bush

Whenever a fake video of Usama bin-Laden emerges, it seems like he is reciting the World According to Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. It’s very convenient for maintaining resolve and undermining critics of our foreign...

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Elizabeth Drew and Impeachment

Here’s something from Elizabeth Drew’s 1999 book, The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why: The power of the base, especially its Christian Right component, explained what many people found so...

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Elizabeth Drew and Impeachment

The power of the base, especially its Christian Right component, explained what many people found so puzzling about the actions of the House Republicans in Clinton’s case: that they pursued impeachment in the face of...

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