Author: BooMan

You probably have to be a certain age to know who Roger Stone is, but he’s a Forrest Gump/Leonard Zelig figure who pops up everywhere in our political past. He started early, trying to convince his elementary school...

I was already aware that Arabs don’t like to refer to the Persian Gulf as the Persian Gulf. They prefer to call it the Arabian Gulf, although the rest of the world ignores their preference. Some lawmakers in New Jersey are...

Chris Cillizza doesn’t think that Ted Cruz plans on being in the Senate for very long, and he predicts that he will never rise to any leadership level in the upper chamber. It’s easy to understand why Mr. Cillizza...

I’m especially discouraged because I allowed myself to become optimistic about the United Auto Workers’ chances of unionizing the Volkswagon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I’m feeling...

Happy Valentine’s Day, and Happy Birthday to my father! I hope you have someone special to spend the day with. I’m struggling through my second day working as the editor of the Washington Monthly’s plethora of...