Author: BooMan

[This originally appeared on August 21st, 2008. I am reposting it here now because of this.] John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, is a POW. For the uninitiated, POW is an acronym for Prisoner of War....

My blogging is going to be very light over the next few days because I am going to try to put the Washington Monthly magazine online, and everything is new to me. Plus, we’re on a tight schedule. So, please forgive my...

Of all the unhealthy developments in this country, I think the following is the most depressing: As partisan divisions solidify, the [Democratic] party’s electoral chances increasingly depend on turning out its core...

Mark Kleiman does the thankless job of explaining to us just how monumentally clueless both Maureen Dowd and Ann Althouse are about cannabis, its legalization and non-legalization, its effects, and its risks. One thing that...