Author: BooMan

The Media’s Conservative Bias

Gallup Polls discovers that a plurality (45%) of Americans still think the national media is too liberal rather than too conservative (18%). Republicans overwhelmingly (77%) feel this way, but so do a plurality (43%) of...

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Opium Farming in Afghanistan

As the United States tries to persuade Afghan president Hamid Zarzai to use herbicides on the opium crop, I have a question. Where are the pharmaceutical companies currently buying their raw opium that they need to make codeine...

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Katie Couric and the Banality of Evil

I have never seen Katie Couric do the news and I never saw her do the Today show. I know what she looks like and I know a lot of people don’t care for her and don’t think she is a serious journalist. I don’t...

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Open Thread

I actually paid for Times Select and still didn’t bother to read Dowd, Friedman, Krugman, Herbert, or any of the other columnists at the New York Times. But now that the content is free again I went over and took a look....

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Low Broderism

Shorter David Broder: no matter what happens, it always benefits the Republicans. And Hillary Clinton is the biggest benefit of all. Broder is correct that a Hillary campaign will hurt Democrats in places like Georgia, Texas,...

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