Author: BooMan

Wandering in Traffic

Ed wrote the following in a specific and limited context, but it really applies to more than just Iowa and one Supreme Court Justice: Most likely Iowa Caucus-goers don’t have law degrees, and certainly have no way of...

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Some People are Slow Learners

I learned something new about political analyst Charlie Cook today. I got a better sense of where he’s coming from. For me as a white Southerner, born in Louisiana and spending my first 18 years there, the Confederate flag...

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Trump is Perfect for the White House

With NBC severing all ties with Donald Trump, his campaign message seems to be that he’s too racist for network television but perfect for the White House. But before he can get that far, he has to win the Republican Party...

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What Social Conservatives Don’t Get

Perusing the many reactions of social conservatives to the nationwide legalization of gay marriage, I have some degree of sympathy for their fear that their sincerely held religious beliefs will be infringed somehow, either...

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