Author: BooMan

It’s been clear for a while that there really isn’t a political or strategic reason to maintain the trade embargo on Cuba. Even Cuban-Americans living in Florida are no longer pro-embargo, and they don’t vote...

I haven’t watched much baseball this season but I did watch the latter half of last night’s Baltimore Orioles/Kansas City Royals game. Not only was it exciting but I got tuned into the amazing run the Royals are on,...

Aaron Blake appears to be incensed that Wendy Davis is running a very negative political advertisement in the Texas gubernatorial campaign. The ad points out that the Republican nominee, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, once...

I think political junkies are prone to worrying too much about what goes on on cable news. In relative terms, the audience for cable news is pretty low. What does and does not get covered on CNN or FOX or MSNBC really...

Back in May 2009, when Barack Obama was still a freshly minted president, he said that no prisoner had ever escaped from one of our Supermax prisons. There’s no definitive definition of what constitutes a...