Author: BooMan

Sadly, it’s probably true that I’d do better spending a few hours a day boosting my audience on Facebook and Twitter, if I want a book contract, than I would spending that same amount of time thinking about ideas for...

I know that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline love to use the talking point that the project will only create 35 permanent jobs, all aimed at maintaining it. It strikes me as a ridiculous figure, however, and if true a major...

On Monday, the executive office of the president urged the U.S. Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act, a bill marked up by Senator Patrick Leahy’s Judiciary Committee. The bill is intended to rein in the National Security...

How moronic does a society have to be to agree to pay taxes to keep people in jail who don’t need to be there but not to pay taxes for actual firefighters? In California, they are arguing that they can’t release...

The media are going to discover in short order that nothing ever really changes with the Republicans, unless it is that their behavior grows worse. But there’s one thing in the following that I have to strongly dispute:...