Author: BooMan

Mahmoudapalooza Takes Over the Right

Mahmoudapalooza would merely be one of the more embarrassing examples of America’s right-wing’s jingoistic, xenophobic, nationalism if it wasn’t likely to get several million people killed. While the right-wing...

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A Party of Bedwetters

You want to know what the GOP is selling, in a nutshell? As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns for president, he rarely misses a chance to warn about the threat from terrorists. “They hate you,” he told a woman at an...

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Iraq Costs Half a Mil a Minute

The war is costing a little bit of money: CHICAGO, Sept. 21 — The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes...

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Obama and Clinton’s Down Ticket Influence

I don’t like writing about the presidential race. But I do have to comment on this: Conventional wisdom dictates that Democratic voters are thrilled with their choices for president, bursting at the seams to rally behind...

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