Author: BooMan

All the Bush Family’s Horses…

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will become the first presidential candidate (in a strictly legal sense) of the 2016 campaign on Monday. He’s not going to go the whole “exploratory committee” route and intends to...

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A New Kind of College Admissions

Kevin Carey has a piece in the Washington Post on the imminent demise of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) as the main metric used in college acceptance. I know that in some parts of the country people use the American College...

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No Good Guys

It’s not really possible to distinguish between the Iraqi army, Shiite militias, and simple Iranian proxy fighters, but they’re pathetic however you choose to describe them. And what’s irritating is that our...

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Jeb Bush Can’t Save the GOP

Rick Santorum can occasionally make a lot of sense, even if he tends to do it unintentionally. Remember back in the fall of 2012 when he said this? “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will...

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