Author: BooMan

Public Attitudes and the Midterm Elections

David Broder and Dan Balz have a giant article up at the Washington Post on the nation’s attitude towards terrorism and the war in Iraq. The article is at once mealy-mouthed, straightforward, and interesting. The most...

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Open Thread

While I was stretching last night I tore or messed up something in my lower back. I’m lying flat with an icepack right now, and I am not very happy. Don’t miss the latest spying scandal. Also…can a liberal use...

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It’s Time for Israel to Stop

When Israel attacks there are consequences (warning: graphic pictures). This isn’t an even fight. At least 104 people, all but four of them civilians, have been killed in the five-day assault, which has choked...

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Dowd on Sluts

I don’t know if Maureen Dowd could get more irrelevant. I haven’t read a column of hers since the New York Times put her behind a paywall. Now, Raw Story shows me what I’m not missing. I’m not missing...

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Bush Official Kills Himself and Son

William H. Lash III, former Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance at the United States Department of Commerce (and the Department’s Head of Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Task Forces), has killed...

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