Author: BooMan

A Dangerous Development in Iraq

We killed him: [Sahib] Al-Aamiri was a leader of the Sadr Movement in Najaf, which follows young nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. KarbalaNews.net in Arabic quotes a leader of the Sadrist bloc in parliament, Nassar...

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Bush is Stressed Out

I don’t know how many of you saw Bush’s brief remarks this morning about the death of President Ford. First of all, he looked like he had just been dragged out of bed. He had bedhead and looked very bleary and tired....

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Open Thread

I’ve discovered the one thing the cable news is really good at. They’re fantastic at making dead men look really, really good. I mean, it’s almost like you could pardon Nixon after he ordered the Brookings...

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Watching Ivy-Leaguers Fight

I really do have a soft spot for intramural spitting contests among Republican intellectuals. It reminds me a lot of the stuffy air in Nassau Inn’s Yankee Doodle Tap Room, with its black and white photos of alumni like...

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Gerald Ford Had an Immoral Foreign Policy

In all the talk on television today about Gerald Ford, I haven’t heard Henry Kissinger mentioned. Of course, Kissinger was his Secretary of State and he pretty much dictated Ford’s godawful foreign policies....

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