Author: BooMan

Frog-March DeLay

In the current issue of the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg explains why Republican House Members are reluctant to see Tom DeLay go: Republican members want to continue being led by the Texas bug exterminator turned hard-right...

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Open Thread

“I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We’re concerned...

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Shi’a Hostage Story Was Fabricated

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 17 – Anyone in Baghdad this morning could have been forgiven for thinking the country was on the verge of civil war. Three Iraqi Army battalions had surrounded the town of Madaen, just south of the...

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Oppose Bolton’s Nomination to the UN

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has released a statement opposing the nomination of John Bolton to be the new ambassador to the United Nations: “John Bolton openly and repeatedly demeaned the United Nations, worked against...

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