Author: BooMan

I’ve known for a long time that the United States’ passionate opposition to the Castro regime in Cuba was driven at the outset largely by powerful people who lost assets when the economy there was nationalized. Some...

Well, better late than never, I always say. The New York Times editorial board is now on the record calling for a full investigation of many Bush administration and CIA officials for the crime of committing torture. This is far...

This seems appropriate: I don’t know if I loved Cocker’s appearances on Saturday Night Live more than John Belushi’s imitations of Cocker’s appearances on Saturday Night Live, but I have fond memories of...

Last Tuesday, I predicted that Pakistan was going to begin to experience a full-blown civil war in response to the school shooting there, and we can see that they are off to a good start with this: Pakistan plans to execute...

Whatever is less that zero respect, that is what I have for Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, but at least in one respect I am willing to be more generous than my colleague Ed Kilgore. I’m willing to be more generous because...