Author: BooMan

The Hill has a highly amusing story about how John McCain almost became an independent in 2001 that would have caucused with the Democrats. After the 2000 election, the Senate was split 50-50. That meant that Cheney had to break...

I think I’ve mentioned it before but I was a paperboy during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981. Every day the cover of the Trenton Times had a box that tallied the days since our hostages had been taken captive. I...

Here is part of a speech Bush made today before the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. He lays out his thinking on what we are doing in Iraq. Check it out. In 2005 — I want you to remember — in 2005, the...

The editors of the National Review have spoken, and it isn’t good for Alberto Gonzales. We do not need more evidence, however, to reach a conclusion about the suitability of Alberto Gonzales for the leadership of the...

Cloture has been invoked in the Senate. Now Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb are introducing an amendment. Carl Levin is co-sponsoring it. Does anyone have the text of this amendment? Use this as a debate thread. It’s on...