Author: BooMan

Jonathan Weisman reports on the unruly GOP base. With public opinion tilting firmly toward ending U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.) might have expected praise for his votes that would start to...

David Brooks, behind the firewall, makes a few points that I have been making for a while. Do the Republicans have any sense of self-preservation? Evidently not. At the University of Chicago there’s a group of scholars who are...

Can we come home yet?

400 long years. What do you have?

I watched Jon Stewart on Bill Moyers’ Journal last night. It was very enjoyable. I won’t say that it made me swell with hope for America but I definitely can understand what Glenn Greenwald is talking about. I...