Author: BooMan

Lux on the DLC

Mike Lux, over at OpenLeft explains why he has a problem with the Democratic Leadership Council: First, it’s the obsession with being “tough” on foreign policy at all costs. As David Sirota and others have...

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Lux on the DLC

Mike Lux, over at OpenLeft explains why he has a problem with the Democratic Leadership Council: First, it’s the obsession with being “tough” on foreign policy at all costs. As David Sirota and others have...

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Memory Hole: War, Intelligence, and the Mafia

With news that the Italian mafia has been operating in Iraq, I thought I’d go down the memory hole and make sure everyone has a chance to see that we’ve been here before. It’s all very predicable. In 1973,...

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I Know We Are, But What are They?

If you want to know why the Democrats are caving on FISA, refusing to invoke inherent contempt, and are not ending the war, look no further than Stan Greenberg’s latest poll results (.pdf). Simply put, the Dems are sailing...

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Open Thread

The mid-level blogosphere has recently suffered a devastating loss of advertising revenue. We’re all hurting and there is a tremendous amount of behind the scenes organizing going on as we try to figure out a way to...

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