Author: BooMan

I think it’s cool that China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon today, but it makes me feel sad because we can’t even fix our own bridges. I’m not saying that I wish we were spending money on...

A year after the Sandy Hook massacre, Eric Boehlert has something to say. I generally dislike arguments that blame the media for public opinion, but there is something to Boehlert’s argument. The gun bill’s failure...

I don’t think it is safe to assume that “a reasonably benign post-American balance of power is latent in the structure of international life and will emerge if we will just get out of the way.” But I also don’t think...

Here’s a reminder not only of how much communism sucked but of why it was appropriate to call the anti-communist uprising in Czechoslovakia “The Velvet Revolution.” Sometime between 1967 and 1968, [Václav]...

I got my hopes up about the peace process in 2000 and I wound up feeling like an idiot, so I am basically biased against even the idea of having hope. No one wants to be justifiably criticized for an inability to learn from...