Author: BooMan

Orange versus Green

When you get big and you have a conference in Las Vegas and make appearances on Meet the Press, the long knives come out and start looking for anything and everything they can find to reduce your influence and marginalize you....

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Iraq Embassy Cable and the Credibility Gap

It’s just a cable (.pdf) from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, not the Pentagon Papers. But, the cable, if widely disseminated and discussed, could have a similar impact on America’s resolve to stay the course. The...

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North Korea May Fire Long Range Missile

At 1:00 AM eastern time, all of North Korea will raise their national flag in anticipation of a great announcement. The anticipated announcement will have something to do with the launching of a new Taepodong 2 missile capable...

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Thoughts on Obama

The Washington Post is front-paging a profile of Barack Obama entitled Obama’s Profile Has Democrats Taking Notice: Popular Senator Is Mentioned as 2008 Contender. Charles Babington, who wrote the piece, obtained some...

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