Author: BooMan

No to Chertoff as AG

There are no positive developments with the Bush administration. All movement is retrograde. Always. What this means is that the welcome resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is not something to applaud but, rather,...

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Talking Realism With the Establishment

David Ignatius tries…he really does. But his problem is that the Establishment’s foreign policy goals are incoherent, suffer from fatal internal contradictions, and are inconsistent with our own intelligence....

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Troops Applaud Call for Withdrawal

Memo to our presidential candidates: A call by Puerto Rico’s governor for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen. Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila said...

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Obama’s Republican Friends

It’s only fair. Obama has been going around telling everyone how bipartisan he is and how, when he’s president, he’s going to unite the country and all that. So, someone finally asked him who these mythic...

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News Roundup

I just scanned the Sunday morning papers and there isn’t a damn thing of much interest. The Sunday morning talk lineup features Sen. John Warner (R-VA) on Meet the Press and John and Elizabeth Edwards on Face the Nation....

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