Author: BooMan

Sparks, Figures, and Alabama Politics

I’m no expert on Alabama politics but I think we just lost our best chance to beat Senator Jeff Sessions in 2008. Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks has decided not to run for the seat. His reasoning is fairly solid and...

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Confessions of a Double Murderer

I’m glad that the Goldman family gives O.J. Simpson no peace. And they have very creative ways of doing it. A federal bankruptcy judge ordered O.J. Simpson’s daughter Tuesday to give a deposition by week’s end...

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Dr. Stephen Swymer is Retiring

Just as a follow-on from my piece last week Wherein BooMan Has a Run-In with the Police, the story was picked up by Mithras at Fables of the Reconstuction, where the Principal of Great Valley Middle School, Dr. Stephen Swymer...

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Forward Thinking Middle East Policy

I don’t have the right frame of mind, let alone the stamina, today to do a really detailed treatment of Shadi Hamid’s latest piece in Democracy, but everyone should take a read. I’d say I agree with about 90%...

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Why the People Hate Congress

I have some quibbles with how the 110th Congress has conducted itself, but I wouldn’t say that I disapprove…not in a binary approve/disapprove poll, anyway. The public feels differently. Fueled by disappointment at...

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