Author: BooMan

Goddamn it. Michael Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general Friday after two key Senate Democrats said they would vote for him despite his refusal to define an interrogation technique that stimulates drowning as...

Glenn Greenwald, per usual, makes the case succinctly. Atrios is even more succinct: It seems that the senators want Mukasey to declare numerous acts of the Bush administration to be violations of law, constitution, and treaty,...

I don’t watch reality teevee and I have never heard of bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman. The fact that Chapman is a racist mildly fits my preconceptions about the typical bounty hunter…we all have our...

If Al Gore wants to run for president he probably will want to compete in the New Hampshire primary. If he doesn’t file with the New Hampshire Secretary of State by the end of the day, he will be off the ballot. Come...

After 9/11 it was apparent that we had a problem with our public relations in the Muslim world. One of the main jobs of our government was to figure out how widespread the problem was, and to counter it in any way possible....