Author: BooMan

Speaker Boehner appeared this morning on Fox News Sunday with host Chris Wallace. He was challenged about his judgment in inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress without consulting or notifying the White House. What...

I’m not sure what it means to be a committed atheist other than, perhaps, that you don’t expect to wake tomorrow as a committed theist. To me, discussions of the truth or falsity of theistic belief systems have faded...

Another way of putting this is that the Senate Democrats can filibuster as much as they want and they don’t have to have the remotest fear that anyone will ever hold them accountable for it. That, ironically, is a lesson...

If you’re like me, your opposition to the death penalty doesn’t come naturally. I think there are plenty of crimes involving torture and murder for which the appropriate penalty is death. And, while I don’t...

According to my archives, in the entire ten year history of this blog, New York Times media critic David Carr has only been mentioned once on the front page. And it wasn’t me who mentioned him. In April 2007, I did a piece...