Author: BooMan

B.B. King Taught Me a Lot

I grew up in a fairly well integrated community and my parents were conscientious about making sure that some of my early playmates were black kids so that I never really learned to see much of a distinction between white and...

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Loyalty Versus Evasiveness

We certainly have a unique presidential election coming up, don’t we. After all, I can see Hillary Clinton saying something similar about her husband. “I’m not going to go out of my way to say that, you know, my brother...

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Why Jeb Can’t Answer the Damn Question

Hopefully, if the phone rings at 3am in the White House, Jeb Bush won’t have to give four different answers to whatever questions he gets before he can arrive at one that people won’t reject as ridiculous. Now, there...

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The Christian Right Ain’t Populist

Something about the logical thread of this Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig piece just isn’t sitting quite right with me. I had to read it three times to unravel the thread and find the error. Her basic thesis is that there is...

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Serious Question

What do you think the chances are that Jeb Bush will actually win the Republican nomination?

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