Author: BooMan

Friday Night Celebrity Blogging

Because political junkies are so out of touch. Mel Gibson doesn’t let his hard-core Catholicism get in the way of drunk driving Miss Universe claims she eats 6 times a day Underage Harry Potter star to bare all American...

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Thoughts on the Bush Foreign Policy

Below, I am going to analyze one of Bush’s answers in today’s joint Bush-Blair press conference. Here’s the question. QUESTION: Mr. President, both of you, I’d like to ask you about the big picture that...

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Not So Frivolous Friday Open Thread

“If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons?” -Leslie Aspin, U.S. Congressman (D-WI) on McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, July 24, 1989. Les went on to be Defense Secretary in Clinton’s...

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For Once, Beinart is Correct

Peter Beinart has an editorial today in the Washington Post. It’s about the Democrats’ recent criticisms of Bush’s foreign policy and it’s entitled Pander and Run. I rarely agree with Peter Beinart, who...

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Thoughts on Moynihan and the Middle East

I happened upon Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 2002 Harvard Commencement speech this morning. It makes for interesting reading. I think of 2002 as the uphappiest year. It was the year this country lost its mind. It was the year...

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