Author: BooMan

The New York Senators and John Bolton

The New York Sun is a right-wing rag closely aligned with the American Enterprise Institute and the neo-conservative movement. They are trying to take advantage of the Israel/Lebanon conflict to pressure Chuck Schumer and...

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Why Oppose Lieberman?

Alex Isenstadt asks Why Are Bloggers Opposing Joe Lieberman? He gets it mostly right. I think the Lamont bloggers have achieved something that would have been impossible a few years ago. Everytime some big time Washington...

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Siding With the Republicans

This is probably this first time in my life where I have been 100% behind the Republicans on an issue. I am ashamed of the Democrats’ efforts to prevent Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki from addressing Congress. House...

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Open Thread

It’s hard to count the myriad ways in which Richard Cohen just doesn’t get it. Disproportionality is indeed the correct way for Israel to create deterrence. But that isn’t the criticism. The criticism is that...

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