Author: BooMan

UMass No Friends of Andy Card

Maybe the University of Massachusetts should have thought a little harder before they offered Andrew Card an honorary degree. It looks like the graduating class was nearly unanimous in their disagreement with that decision. The...

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Unreleased, Unread Books Cause No Ripple

More journalmalism from Dan Balz and Perry Bacon Jr. and the headline writers at the Washington Post. In this morning’s Sunday newspaper they have an article entitled, Unflattering Books Cause Hardly a Ripple. This refers...

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Erasing History at the U.N.

This is not from The Onion. It’s from Reuters. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad had to reconvene the U.N. Security Council and rerun a meeting on Friday after reading the wrong statement on Sudan, effectively wiping an...

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Bush’s Base and Biblical Literalism

I don’t mean to be disrespectful of people’s religious beliefs. Really…I don’t. But this is a problem. About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is...

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