Author: BooMan

All These Crooks are Connected

Knight-Ridder ties together the Duke Cunningham scandal with the controversy over the Pentagon’s Joint Counter-Intelligence Field Activity’s (CIFA) spying on anti-war activists. A Pentagon intelligence agency that...

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Golfing In a Time of War

What are the short-term prospects of the GOP effectively cleaning up its public image and blunting the charges that they have cultivated a culture of corruption? If their replacement for Tom DeLay is any measure, the chances are...

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Iraq Chaos Thread

Just when you thought Iraq couldn’t get more messed up and confusing, Kurdish rioters have destroyed their own shrine to the victims of Halabja. And this is after Colin Powell was nice enough to show up for the...

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Gail Collins Doesn’t Quite Get It

The New York Times does not have Russ Feingold’s back. But that is probably because they are missing the point. We understand the frustration that led Senator Russell Feingold to introduce a measure that would censure...

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