Author: BooMan

Iraq Wants a Timetable for Withdrawal

I’ve been advising the Bush administration to define down their definition of victory for the whole-year-plus I have been blogging, and they have obstinately done the reverse at every turn. Most recently, Dick Cheney...

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Open Thread

What’s on your mind? There is a relentless downpour here, with some aggressive lightning.

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On TNR and the Blogosphere

Maybe you haven’t really arrived until someone as important as Martin Peretz reads what you write and responds: Forgive me. But I never read Daily Kos until today. Well, now that I’ve read it, the first thought that...

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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. How many of you consider yourselves “hard fascis[ts] with a Microsoft face” or part of the “fascistic forces ranged against Lieberman”? The...

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Another Spying Bombshell

Eric Lichtblau and James Risen strike again with a huge scoop. Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast...

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