Author: BooMan

NSA Cover-Up Continues

The Feds are threatening to sue the state of Maine if they pursue an investigation of Verizon to see whether they violated the law in cooperating in the NSA domestic surveillance program. Verizon customers in Maine have asked...

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Marty Peretz’s Temper Tantrum

Marty Peretz is feeling particularly bitter and vindictive today. He goes after Ned Lamont and leftists in the Wall Street Journal. He gets personal. It’s really quite remarkable how someone like Ned Lamont, from the stock...

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Bush Didn’t Know Islam Had Sects

Cripes: In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End, Galbraith, the son of the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, claims that American leadership knew very little about the nature of...

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Open Thread

Meanwhile, reporters tried to recall a more painful display of catch-up campaigning. One New York reporter said watching Senate hopeful Rick Lazio step in dog poop on the eve of his loss to Hillary Clinton was pretty sad. But...

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Cokie and Will on Lamont

It is kind of funny to watch the Beltway insiders discuss the blogosphere. Cokie Roberts and George Will have never been sympathetic to the left. But they describe the Lamont challenge as a ‘disaster’ for the...

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