Author: BooMan

I found an article from 2004 that talks about worst-case scenarios for New Orleans in the case of a direct hit from a hurricane. At the time, Hurricane Ivan was thought to be on a path for The Big Easy. The worst-case scenario...

In Richard Kim’s In Defense of Pat Robertson in the current issue of The Nation, he points out: What’s all the fuss about? In my estimation, Robertson’s done us all a service in at least two regards. First, if...

Talk about hurricanes, Iraq, Suge Knight or whatever you want.

The Washington Post is reporting that the constitutional negotiations in Iraq have finally failed. No surprise. Iraqi Shiite Muslim leaders said early Sunday that they were ending negotiations on the country’s constitution...

I opposed the Persian Gulf War, as did most of the Democrats in the Senate. Notably, among the few Democrats that supported the war, we had one Vice-President and Presidential nominee (Gore), one Vice-Presidential nominee...