Author: BooMan

When a state governor mobilizes the National Guard to go mill aimlessly around at the border, who ultimately pays for that? I honestly don’t know how everything is financed. Obviously, the usual purpose of mobilizing the...

Polls this far out from an election aren’t dispositive of much of anything, but it’s telling that Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma has only a narrow lead over her Democratic challenger while Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York...

Thomas Frank’s latest column for Salon is a perfect example of the kind of leftist anti-establishmentarianism that I always rail against. President Obama is faulted for nothing more than his willingness and success in...

I’ve grown so frustrated with the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine question in particular that I’ve had to fight the urge to just tune it all out. But I sucked it up and read Ben Birnbaum and Amir Tibon’s...

Wait a second. California has more people than Canada? I hadn’t even thought of that possibility. Republicans like Two and a Half Men. Democrats like Divorce Court. At the Washington Post, Matea Gold profiles Art Pope. Sad...