Month: November 2014

Yikes, what a weekend. From volleyball suicide bombers to more Afghanistan regrets to Rand Paul stupidity to… well, JFC to just about everything else, it’s getting downright depressing. Especially with the cold and...

I honestly wonder how anyone can justify this: A suicide bomber has killed at least 45 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that...

Dear Booman In your piece on the electoral college, there is a line “since Eisenhower defeated Truman” which does not apply as Eisenhower didn’t run against Truman. President Eisenhower’s opponent in two...

Everyone knows, or should know, that the electorate that turns out in federal midterm elections is distinct enough from the electorate that turns out in presidential elections that it is hard to draw lessons from one that...

Former DC Mayor, Marion Barry, passed away last night at the age of seventy-eight. It might seem strange to some, but he always reminded me a lot of James Brown. They both came from dirt-poor broken families in the Deep South....