Author: BooMan

Friday the 13th Open Thread

…the difference between the international and domestic editions of Newsweek (as well as its crosstown rival, Time) is like the difference between the mind of an international business executive wizzing across the Atlantic...

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Krugman: Will the Levee Break?

Paul Krugman: If the actual vote is anything like what the polls now suggest, we’re talking about the Democrats holding a larger majority in the House than the Republicans have held at any point since their 1994 takeover. So if...

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News Roundup

Hat tip to CrellMoset who unearthed an arrest warrant for one George Felix Allen from 1974. One more thing for Macaca to explain. Tim Tagaris says Jayson Blair is writing Lieberman’s campaign commercials. Of course,...

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Senate Polling

Via MyDD, the Senate currently projects to a 49-49-2 tie. The two independents will be Bernie Sanders from Vermont (a Socialist) and Joe Lieberman from Connecticut (an Egomaniac for Connecticut). The numbers below are five-poll...

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Denny-Boy the Bribe Taker

I was reading about how the French went and pissed off the Turks by passing a parliamentary vote that would make it a crime to deny that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians. Then I remembered how Sibel Edmonds had...

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