Author: BooMan

Open Thread

A good question: “How about standing up and saying: ‘I, Norm Coleman, smoked pot in 1969.’ That ‘I am not a gang member, a drug addict or a criminal,'” Kent asks. [Norm Kent was Coleman’s...

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Running Against Latinos

On at least one issue the Wall Street Journal gets it: Like most voters, Hispanics care about more issues than immigration. But also like most voters, they take pride in their cultural identity and will reject candidates who...

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Not Welcome in Africa

In my own cynical opinion Dick Cheney had three goals when he came into office. He wanted to pump oil in Iraq, Iran, and Libya and he didn’t want no fussy human rights activists telling him why he couldn’t. He got...

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Voinovich Joins Lugar

Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) has joined Sen. Richard Lugar in calling for an American withdrawal (or dramatic drawdown of troops) from Iraq. A policy of responsible military disengagement with a corresponding increase [in] non-military...

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