Author: BooMan

I know that there are people in the world for whom Ben Carson has been an important, even life-altering, inspiration. I respect that. I really do. And I’ve wondered about how those people are dealing with Carson’s...

This seems like a pretty good summation of how I feel about the Republican Party and their role in our political system. It works on so many levels that it would almost be a crime to list just a few.

It’s probably not true, but it feels like every time I either write about David Brooks or link to someone who has written about David Brooks that there are commenters who take offense. This disapproval is typically...

If you’ve ever read Charlie Wilson’s War, you probably have an indelible impression of Michael G. Vickers in your mind. As soon as I read that book back in 2003, I thought that Vickers had to be brought out of...

This didn’t just happen because people peaceably protested. Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 45, who was the driver of a police van that carried Gray through the streets of Baltimore, was charged with second-degree murder,...