Author: BooMan

Shocked? I’m Not

As former secretary of state Colin L. Powell worked into the night in a New York hotel room, on the eve of his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, CIA officers sent urgent e-mails and cables describing grave...

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Open Thread

“If he’s—the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a—is a noble institution I would—I would strongly reject that assumption—that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person.” —Bush, on NBC Nightly...

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Open Thread

“We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there’s not this kind of federal —...

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Guckert/Gannon Exposed as a Serious Plagiarist

Gannon/Guckert has been exposed as a serious plagiarist, further undermining any claim he had to be a serious journalist with a right to be seated in the White House Press Briefing Room. Details of the story can be found at: The...

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Blame-Shifting Commission Report on Iraq

The American intelligence community was “dead wrong” about Iraq’s weapons arsenal in large part because of an outdated Cold War mentality and a vast, lumbering bureaucracy that continues to shackle dedicated...

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