Author: BooMan

Despite Rhetoric, GOP Still Hates Women

Here’s another thing that makes me want to punch someone in the face: Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried Sunday to defend the Texas anti-abortion law that shut down 13 clinics this week....

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Senator Begich Tries to Grow the Electorate

There hasn’t been much polling out of Alaska but sometime around Labor Day, Republican challenger Dan Sullivan took a narrow lead in both the individual polls (excepting one partisan poll) and in the aggregate. It’s...

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Lax Security Isn’t Funny

As Jonathan Ladd points out at Mischiefs of Faction, incompetent security by the Secret Service is no joking matter and the consequences for our society if the president were to be harmed are almost unfathomable. I don’t...

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With Editors Like These…

I know I am a nitpicker and that the issue of whether Jews should play in or watch sporting events on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is an interesting one, but the following editing error is very hard to forgive. The Lerner...

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Serious Question

I have been offline since shortly after noon on Wednesday, September 17th. Obviously, I have missed a ton of news. In your opinion, what are the most important things that have happened in that time period that I should know...

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