Author: BooMan

The Denial in the Nutosphere

So twelve Iraq War veterans penned an editorial in the Washington Post today concisely laying out the case that we should get the hell out of Iraq post haste. All twelve of them are inactive and all twelve of them have the rank...

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Putin Sticks Finger in Neo-Cons’ Eye

Vladimir Putin is in Iran. And events there are going to make the Bomb Iran Contingent’s heads explode. The leaders of the five countries that border the Caspian Sea pledged at a conference in Tehran Tuesday not to allow...

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Obama Stands Up

I want to like Barack Obama. I want something to make me enthusiastic about voting for him. Yet, he hasn’t been showing me much. Today, he stepped up and did something to make me believe in him. He placed a hold on the...

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Of Seniority, Glazed Chicken, and Rice Pilaf

Remember this? On 11 March 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-North Carolina) declared that all references to French fries and French toast on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run...

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Blood Diamonds and Arms Dealers

I watched the movie Blood Diamond last night and it made me all the more incensed at that activities of arms dealer Viktor Bout. Former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout, the inspiration for Nicholas Cage’s character in...

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