Author: BooMan

What happened right after 1993 that caused Congress to never raise the gasoline tax again? Lawmakers in both parties have been reluctant to raise the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal gasoline and 24.4-cent diesel taxes that are the...

Jonathan Martin reports in the New York Times that the RNC has moved aggressively to reduce the number of debates Republican candidates for president will have to endure. The Republican National Committee moved Friday to seize...

The day after the September 11, 2012 attacks on our compounds in Benghazi!, I was very irritated. I was very angry with the mob that stormed our consulate and killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. But I was also really...

Maybe it makes sense to have fewer than twenty debates during the Republican nominating process, but the paranoia involved about the bias of the national media is amusing. It’s not the media that draws Republican...

I’m not sure why right-wingers like Jim Hoft think that the left is supposed to be “tolerant” of people who are anti-gay activists. I suppose he’d like us to think of him as someone who simply has a...