Aliester Crowley is a strange fellow.  To most Americans, he’s probably just that guy you heard about when LonelyGirl15 was cool and you heard something about sperm being involved with that jazz.  Across the pond, in Britain, he’s something akin to the ultimate boogeyman, an evil, evil...

I mean this is the nicest way possible, but what the hell has happened to Brendan Fraser? Let's all think back to the year 1998 when I was convinced Fraser was going to get the credit as an actor he so deserved after starring in Gods and Monsters . Then, when he took his spot as Indiana Jones' heir ...

RTFA: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/opinion/12mon4.h… On Christmas Eve, the conservative pundit Monica Crowley argued on Fox News that instead of rescuing America from the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt’s spending on public works made it worse. She insisted that this bizarre cl...

On Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith talked to Michael Crowley, editor of the liberal magazine The New Republic, about some of Obama’s recent appointments, including former Clinton chief of staff, Leon Panetta, for CIA director: "Dianne Feinstein, had her, you know, was -- her...

The ‘true conservatives’ have not only lost the Congress in 2006, and the Presidency in 2008, they are on a path to losing it all the way. They look at the loss of moderate McCain to (what now seems to be moderate) Obama and make the ridiculous claim that those evil moderates cannot win ...

A view of Blair House, which is situated across the street from the White House. The yellow facade marks the main entrance. (Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) Helene Cooper of NYT is trying to make a big deal out of something that rather clearly isn’t. In a story entitled, “Sorr...

Obama and his advisers are studying options to help the struggling automotive industry. (CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama has kept a relatively low profile as automakers plead for billions from Congress, but behind the scenes, the incoming administration is working hard on finding ways to e...

For months, CNN's Howard Kurtz has been one of the loudest mainstream media voices accusing his fellow press members of being disgracefully in the tank for presumptive Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. On Sunday, Kurtz continued his finger-pointing by accurately stating, as it pertains t...

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Today, BoomTown boards the Acela Express from New York’s Penn Station to D.C.’s Union Station to attend the Senate hearing on the Yahoo agreement with Google to outsource some of its ad search business. Titled rather ominously, “...

 Download | Play   Download | Play  (h/t David) Seymour Hersh has been writing about the Bush administration’s aggressive stance against Iran for years now.  His latest article for The New Yorker, “Preparing the Battlefield “, Hersh clai...