Author: BooMan

Plame, Blame, and the Law

I’m not a lawyer and I’m not going to get into all the history of the Valerie Plame affair. Suffice to say, that the whole topic makes me feel very conflicted. But there are two things that could and should happen...

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The CIA as an Agent of the Right

…Philip Burnett Franklin Agee was born in 1936. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1957 and worked as a case officer in several Latin American countries…Agee resigned in 1969 and began work on a book about...

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Can We Match Their Intensity?

Why have conservative Christians so vehemently backed George W. Bush? It’s not because they want their social security handed over to Charles Schwab. It’s not because they want their children to pay for the war in...

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More Fun Stuff on the Milan 13

I have been variously amused and outraged by the story of the Milan 13. Mainly, I just can’t believe how stupid they were. But two new NYT’s articles today have added to my outrage-o-meter. From the first: By early...

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Who Ruined Our Country?

I hear a lot of talk about how the Project for a New American Century is responsible for Bush’s foreign policy. Some even blame them for being behind 9/11. With so much hay being made about PNAC, I thought I’d...

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