Author: BooMan

Let us know what is going on in the world outside the beltway.

The lobby of the Holiday Inn at 6th and C is filled with war protestors. They are unfurlinging their flags and banners, putting on their war paint, and sipping massive caffe mochas. The weather outside is nippy but not too cold....

Here’s a shot from the September 2005 protest. I have a feeling I’ll be seeing that flag again this year. Nothing has improved in Iraq since 2005. In fact, by any metric you want to choose, things are immeasureably...

Way back in March of 2006, Scooter Libby’s attorneys filed an excuse for his faulty memory. In short, the failure to find WMD was a major problem and Valerie Wilson was only a small piece of a much greater problem....

This is what we are surging into: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s presentation of a new Baghdad security plan to the Iraqi Parliament on Thursday broke down in bitter sectarian recriminations, with Mr. Maliki threatening a...