Author: BooMan

Roberts Picked for Chief Justice

Bush has nominated Roberts to be Chief Justice. It also appears that Roberts is now slated to replace Rehnquist and O’Connor will stay on the court until another replacement is found and confirmed. So, Roberts is now...

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Watching the Bigwigs Sell Out Women’s Rights

This is a perfect way for me to end a day I spent spitting mad: With the confirmation hearings expected to focus extensively on Roberts’s views on abortion, affirmative action and other social issues, a number of Democrats...

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Lament for New Orleans

Saw a bird with a tear in his eye Walking to New Orleans my oh my Hey, now, Bird, wouldn’t you rather die Than walk this world when you’re born to fly?Liberty- – Grateful Dead Some days the gales are howling...

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Open Thread

If I write anything else this afternoon I’m going to blister the paint in my house. I’ll let you do the ranting for a while.

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Enough is Enough

“I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees,” -George W. Bush, Sept. 2005. I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”- Dick Cheney, March 2005. The read we...

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