Author: BooMan

If I were a U.S. Congressman, I would propose the following for no other reason than to cause a paranoid frenzy on the right. Then I’d point and laugh: Helsinki, the capital of Finland, has a a plan that might make car...

I hope I never lose the ability to be appalled: At about 7:30 PM on July 12, a group of well-dressed young men carrying silenced pistols arrived at an apartment complex in Baghdad’s Eastern Zayouna neighborhood. They went...

When you let the CIA choose what to redact in a report that is critical of their activities, you deserve the criticism you get. On June 7th, I wrote the following: It’s really kind of incredible that the CIA is in charge...

Regardless of their religion, I cannot stand religious fanatics. The scope of ISIS’s victories and the way they treat the people they subjugate are both appalling and terrifying. The American in me wants to do something...

I am grateful to Alfredo Corchado for doing an important piece of journalism for the Dallas Morning News. He went down to Mexico and followed the path of the Central American migrants who are trying to move north and enter the...