Author: BooMan

Newsweek Soft-Pedals Afghanistan

Raw Story reports: The United States edition of the October 2, 2006 issue of Newsweek features a radically different cover story from its International counterparts, RAW STORY has learned. The cover of International editions,...

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Meeting With Russ Feingold

I just got back from a moveon.org sponsored event at the Constitution Center. Russ Feingold was the featured speaker and he talked about his “Present Vision for Restoring Democracy.” Before the event started I was...

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Anthrax: Lying Then or Lying Now

Then: Scientists estimate that the letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle originally contained about 2 grams of anthrax, about one-sixteenth of an ounce, or the weight of a dime. But its extraordinary concentration...

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The Sad Legacy of George Allen

Salon reports that Senator George Allen liked to use the word nigger a lot when he was attending the University of Virginia. “Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where ‘blacks...

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The GOP is Out of Answers

Watching the Republicans try to explain why our intelligence community has concluded that the war Iraq has made the threat of Islamic terrorism worse kind of reminds me of watching the Clintonistas try to explain away...

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