Author: BooMan

NSA: Something Must Be Done

On December 16th, 2005, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times published Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts. The story revealed that: Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized...

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See Georgia10

I am too depressed by this to write about it tonight. See Georgia10’s diary. I’ll figure out what I think we should do tonight. This is the biggest constitutional crisis of my lifetime. And we just got kicked in the...

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Open Thread

When I said that I wanted to see a certain South Dakotan senator locked in a small room with Damnit Janet and MilitaryTracy I had no idea the beast I would unleash. But, we’ve had some of the best writing ever in response....

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Get Ready for the Budget Cuts

What happens when you spend gadzillions of dollars and you don’t make any money? You go broke: Treasury Secretary John W. Snow warned Congress on Monday that the federal government risked default without an increase in the...

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