Author: BooMan

I love a good story and Kent Greenfield’s sidebar in the January/February issue of the Washington Monthly provides one. “The public be damned,” railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt snorted at a reporter in...

Sen. Marco Rubio is proceeding as if he is going to make a run for the presidency. The question is “Why?” Sen. Marco Rubio has begun taking concrete steps toward launching a presidential bid, asking his top advisors...

The king of Saudi Arabia has died at the overripe age of 91. You can read some primers on the Saudi Arabian monarchy and the politics of succession here and here. It is reported that Prince Salman will become the king, but it is...

Netanyahu really has no friends outside of the American Republican Party. None. Israeli intelligence officials have been briefing both Obama administration officials and visiting U.S. senators about their concerns on the...

It’s very interesting to look at the diametrically opposed reactions on the left and the right to the failure of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the House of Representatives. There is one thing that both...