Author: BooMan

If you get to the Yearly Kos convention a couple days early, you might be in for a rude surprise. The U.S. military plans to detonate a 700 ton explosive charge in a test called “Divine Strake” that will send a mushroom cloud...

From Roll Call (subscription only) via Raw Story: Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) on Wednesday left open the possibility that Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) bill to censure President Bush could get its day before the...

I’m feeling old today. Twenty-five years ago, on a rainy Monday afternoon, John Hinckley almost assassinated Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. I was in sixth grade. It’s hard to believe that a...

Remember those heady days back in late September 2001? Remember how we were worried about follow-on attacks and anthrax suddenly wound up in the mail? Well, perhaps you don’t remember everything. Do you, for example,...

One of the unfortunate side-effects of Bush’s style of politics is that his opponents need to defend themselves against accusations that they are soft on national defense. And one of the saddest elements of our current...