Author: BooMan

FL-13: A Stolen Election

We worried quite a lot about the integrity of the vote in the midterm elections. Steven D did most of the writing on the topic, and it might seem like we were being alarmist since the elections went off relatively smoothly....

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Poppy in the UAE

The father is hurt by criticism of his son: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Former President George H.W. Bush took on Arab critics of his son Tuesday during a testy exchange at a leadership conference in the capital of...

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Open Thread

Can I just say that watching your friends make a car wreck of their lives isn’t any fun? I’ve had a craptacular couple of days here and I’m not enjoying it. I’m sorry if the blog has suffered for it, but...

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Richard Cohen’s America

There was a time during the Reagan administration when Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen was a voice of conscience. That was when I first became familiar with him. And I liked what he wrote. I thought he was an important...

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Running to the Center

What happens when liberals take over most of the committee chairs in the House of Representatives? Washington gets nervous: WASHINGTON — Anxious to chart a centrist course with Democrats’ new majority in Congress,...

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