Author: BooMan

What’s going on?

I was just forced to defend myself from the accusation, from an 11-year old, that I am a nerd for reading Church Committee transcripts when I am bored. In the process of explaining myself, I showed him the Huston Plan, and I...

Dan Conley coins a new term. Conventional Wisdom is a funny thing … it seems to exist on several different planes simultaneously. Take, for example, Presidential campaign conventional wisdom. Here, the much maligned...

Oh, what a tangled web we weave: The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass...

I have to confess to feeling a niggling impatience whenever I read articles analyzing the 2008 contenders and their prospects and the national dynamics and the generation shifts and all that type of thing. I don’t really...