Author: BooMan

Rating the 2008 Senate Races

I’ve been analyzing the 33 Senate seats that are up in 2008. To do this, I looked at three main variables. 1. How popular is the incumbent Senator (even if they are retiring, or may retire). This is reflected in their net...

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Lieberman is Still Whining

Is anyone else getting tired of listening to Joe Lieberman whine like a little child? Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, says his disagreement with the Democrats over the Iraq war won’t prevent him from...

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Drinking Liberally in Philadephia

If it’s Tuesday in Philadelphia then it is Drinking Liberally night. One of the best things about Drinking Liberally in Philadelphia is that so many of us are writers/bloggers, so we all read each other’s stuff and...

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Open Thread

The U.S. subsidized Iraq media outlet, al-Hurra, has recently [unbeknownst to its unilingual American overseers] broadcast Arabic dubbed versions of Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will, as well as a 68 minute show of a...

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The Foreign Policy Establishment

There is a reason why the Democratic senators least inclined to vote for the Reid-Feingold bill calling for a cut-off of funds for Iraq were members of the Armed Services Committee. First, I’ll demonstrate the truth of...

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