Author: BooMan

Trying to Be Reasonable

I am willing to give Michael Gerson and Pete Wehner points for trying, but there actually is no point to trying to talk sensibly to the conservative base. Quoting James Madison and Aristotle (that heathen!) isn’t going to...

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Moments of Uninhibited Frolic

David Brooks used to be a stoner, but he thinks that the laws he was breaking did no more than subtly encourage him to be more temperate, more prudent, and more self-governing. I think he forgot about the criminal penalties...

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Moments of Uninhibited Frolic

David Brooks used to be a stoner, but he thinks that the laws he was breaking did no more than subtly encourage him to be more temperate, more prudent, and more self-governing. I think he forgot about the criminal penalties...

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Biggest Mouth for the GOP

If you look up “cracker” in the dictionary, it says: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Beauregard the Third is serving his third term in the Senate and is asking the voters of Alabama to send him back for a fourth,...

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Lieberman Continues the Devil’s Work

Well, at least Bain Capital will get some competition: Over lunch in Manhattan several months ago, Brendan Carroll, a partner and co-founder of the private equity firm Victory Park Capital, had a proposition for his former boss,...

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