Author: BooMan

Spooky Halloween Thread

My favorite costume that I ever wore for Halloween was a Giant. I found a long coat and went around on my older brother’s shoulders. One lady refused to serve me because I was 7 feet tall, and clearly an adult. My brother...

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Open Letter to Sen. Schumer

Dear Senator Schumer, I know that you recommended Mike Mukasey as an acceptable nominee for Attorney General and that it is a quite awkward thing for you to contemplate withdrawing your support for his nomination. But,...

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Rockefeller is Selling Us Out

Today, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, penned an editorial in the…drum roll…Washington Post, explaining his rationale for immunizing the telecommunications corporations from...

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How the Military-Industrial Complex Works

The Hill reports on something that I thought probably would not happen. The senior Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Thad Cochran, will soon announce whether he will retire from the upper chamber, a decision...

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Observations on the Debate

Here is what I learned in the debate, and spin appearances after the debate, about each of the candidates that I didn’t know before: Chris Dodd is for decriminalizing bong-hits and John Edwards thinks that sends the wrong...

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