Author: BooMan

There’s lots to write about today, but I am dog tired. I’ve been working pretty much non-stop since I got up this morning on Washington Monthly-related tasks. Part of that was accepting an official full-time position...

Stuart Rothenberg is certainly counting his chickens before they have come home to roost. This is something that timeless wisdom has told us not to do. Some people call it “irrational exuberance.” Maybe Rothenberg is...

John Stoehr of the Washington Spectator has a new piece up in which he encourages (without much hope) the Obama administration to use the furor and panic over the Ebola virus to make an effort to ram home their nominee for...

I’ve been and continue to be quite busy. I just did most of the work to put the November/December issue of the Washington Monthly online. Look for it on Monday. It will be good. What’s on your mind?

Just for the edification of Paul Waldman, the arrogance that leads Chris Christie to insult people who he thinks are stupid isn’t some personality quirk. It’s a cultural trademark of the Garden State that it shares...