Author: BooMan

NYT: Nasty Profile on Pelosi

Mark Liebovich just posted a profile on Nancy Pelosi at the New York Times and it is really nasty. I mean, Ms. Pelosi received no love for agreeing to be interviewed. I’m not saying that Liebovich smeared her (exactly) or...

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Mayhem in the Middle East

CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, “was critically injured [today] when a joint American and Iraqi military patrol…in Baghdad was hit by a roadside bomb.” In addition, Paul Douglas, 48, her cameraman, and...

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Haditha

I am beyond frustrated to read the New York Times account of what some of our Marines did in Haditha. Summarily executing women, an old man in a wheelchair, and young children is not what we sent our troops to do. I am hopeful...

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Nir Rosen on Iraq

Nir Rosen, [who by way of disclosure, works with my brother at the New America Foundation] has a horrifying description of life in Iraq. Here’s the lede: Every morning the streets of Baghdad are littered with dozens of...

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