Author: BooMan

What Does Walsh Mean for Today?

Kenneth Starr gave the Independent Counsel a bad name. But he was preceded by an Independent Counsel that took his job seriously. In 1986, Attorney General Edwin Meese put Lawrence E. Walsh in charge of investigating the...

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Open Thread

Sometimes Joe Biden acts like a man of the people. At a campaign stop in Des Moines, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden had some tough words for the President, along with two GOP presidential candidates. “This guy...

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Domenici Cuts and Runs

Pajama Pete Domenici is getting restless about Iraq: Pointing to his profound disappointment in the Iraqi government, U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today called for a redirection of U.S. military policy in Iraq and announced his...

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Bush, Cheney, and Libby Should All Be in Jail

Look, I’m as sick as anyone of writing about l’affair Plame. I’d much rather write about how Fred Thompson undermined the Watergate investigation. But the enemies of the truth are so persistent and the stakes...

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Broder Fears the People

David Broder. The man is an icon. He’s becoming a new kind of icon. An icon representing all that is wrong with the culture inside the Beltway. David Broder surveys the current political and cultural landscape within the...

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