Author: BooMan

On Yearly Kos, Warner, and Progressives

I’ve been trying to work through in my mind why I found Mark Warner’s centrality at the Yearly Kos event so troubling. I have a lot of conflicted feelings about this, and putting the pieces together to make a clear...

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Hillary at Take Back America 2006

The Take America Back 2006 conference is wrapping up. The most significant event here was the reaction to Hillary Clinton’s speech. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew boos and hisses from an audience of liberal...

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DraftGore2008 Thread

I don’t usually post press release type stuff but Susie Madrak of Suburban Guerilla has Gore Mania, and she asked my to tell everyone about the DraftGore2008 political action committee. If you think Al is the man for the...

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Thoughts on the DC Culture

There is definitely a much different feel to the conference in DC than the conference in Vegas. The DC crowd is much more ethnically diverse. It has a much bigger focus on single issues (all the groups are here). There are...

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Cheney and the NSA Case

The courts can’t put an end to illegal domestic surveillance of American citizens, the government argues, because the government cannot defend itself without jeopardizing national security. …the lawyer [said],...

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