Author: BooMan

Battling It Out in the British Papers

Yesterday, Cheney and his minions used the UK Telegraph to warn Iran about the potential for an Israeli airstrike coming through Iraqi airspace. Today, the Pentagon responded in the Times of London. SOME of America’s most senior...

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The Sad Story of Jim Zumbo

Jim Zumbo made a big mistake. And he has paid a price. Zumbo is a famous hunter and hunting advocate. He wrote for Outdoor Life from 1962 up until last week. What did he do? He wrote this on his blog after a long day hunting...

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Lippmann, Strauss, and Public Opinion

“[A] true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship” (Plato, The Republic, 487e). You hear it all the...

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UK Telegraph Used Instead of State Dept.

The U.K. Daily Telegraph has emerged, in the Bush years, as one of the least reliable papers in the Western world. They routinely publish unsourced or poorly sourced rumors or even rank propaganda. Today, they seem to be...

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FL-13: Democrats Get Screwed Again

Via Political Wire, we just got screwed again. “Florida election officials announced yesterday that an examination of voting software did not find any malfunctions that could have caused up to 18,000 votes to be lost in a...

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