Author: BooMan

Anyone reading anything other than The Kite Runner?

I’m watching New American Foundation fellow Anatol Lieven on C-SPAN.  He’s thoughtful and he works with my brother.  I will find a way to get this man drunk.  In the meantime, check out this...

WILLIAMS: Is there a palpable tension when you get together with the former president, who happens to be your father? A lot of the guys who worked for him are not happy with the direction of things. BUSH: Oh no. My relationship...

You want an open thread? Here’s your stinking open thread… What’s on your reading list? I am reading Norman Mailer’s The Spooky Art. I just reread Hitler’s Willing Executioners. I need a good piece...

I have doctored Rumsfeld’s speech before the American Legion yesterday. I have merely changed some place names and events to reflect what this speech would have sounded like if it had been given in 1974. Rumsfeld became...