Author: BooMan

Remember when Michael Ledeen was running wild in the lead-up and early days of the Iraq War? He was really in his element, calling for creative destruction in the Middle East and Iran. In The War Against the Terror Masters he...

Dick and George’s Excellent Adventure in Mesopotamia is not working out so well.

Is Jane Maienschein correct that chimerism and genetic mosaicism undercut the proposed Sanctity of Human Life Act of 2013, or Personhood Amendment? Or is Ramesh Ponnuru correct that genetic oddities have no bearing on it? The...

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) college loans bill was filibustered today. On the other hand, fellow New England progressive Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) finally broke through with a major accomplishment by getting his...

Ramesh Ponnuru raises a question that is being bandied about a lot today: It is easy enough to attribute his defeat to the sentiment among conservatives that Cantor is not sufficiently hostile to an amnesty for illegal...