Author: BooMan

Talking Ahmadinejad

Columbia University president Lee Bollinger blasted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while introducing him yesterday. “I am only a professor, who is often a university president, and today I feel all the weight of the...

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Stevens Should Lose Appropriations Seat

I gotta be honest. I think Sen. Ted Stevens’ four decades of service in the Senate should confer to him some degree of deference and a little bit of a benefit of the doubt. I know he is best friends with Sen. Daniel Inouye...

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Open Thread

Do you agree with this? It is not a stretch to say that the ascent of the South has been the single most important development in US politics in the past 50 years. Beginning in the mid-1960s, with fitting irony, almost 100 years...

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The Big Neo-Con

Even though I pegged the ‘Syria has North Korean nuclear weapons’ story as horsecrap from the get-go, it’s nice to get some confirmation. Nonetheless, the surfeit of stories that were seeded throughout the...

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John Fund and the Modern GOP

John Fund pens a column today in the Wall Street Journal that absolutely blasts Alaskan pols Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young. He concludes: It’s time for Senate Republicans to step up to the plate. It’s...

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