Author: BooMan

Whaddya make of this?

My colleague Ed Kilgore was raised in Georgia which gives him a totally different perspective than I got being raised in the relatively “enlightened” and idyllic Ivy League town of Princeton, New Jersey. What Ed...

Mark Twain advised us to “Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” Good advice, perhaps, but not the end of the story. This kind of acquiescence in the face of injustice did not impress Martin...

When Ross Douthat writes about race, he does so in a self-consciously “gingerly” manner, which means, for the most part, that he doesn’t have anything to say. It also means that he’s unwilling to point a...

Whether or not Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee and whether or not she will run for the nomination at all are two very different questions. But arguing, as Charlie Cook does, that Clinton only has a 25%-30% chance...