Author: BooMan

Those Old Jokes Aren’t Funny Any More

I don’t care whether Lena Dunham’s jokes are funny or not. But I do think that if you’re going to say that she doesn’t have the right to tell Jewish jokes in this day and age because “in the U.S....

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The GOP Has to Win Florida

It’s true that political analysts and pundits spend a lot of time talking about home states when thinking about the strength and weaknesses of presidential candidates and their potential running mates, despite the fact...

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Progressives in a Second Clinton Era

Haley Sweetland Edwards tackles various efforts by progressives to move Hillary Clinton to the left. After all, we don’t want to live through either of these nightmare scenarios: Liberals have two recurring nightmares...

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Republicans and Reading the Newspaper

If you are a Republican, this is how it works. If you’re so intellectually incurious that you don’t read the newspapers, pretend that you read all of them. COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I...

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