Author: BooMan

Max Ehrenfreund makes a good point that the people, through their representatives, have twice rejected the kind of decryption activities the NSA has been conducting, and they just went ahead and did them anyway.

Democrats can’t concern themselves with how opposing strikes against Syria might harm the president. Nothing harms a president more than embroiling this country in a foreign conflict that we cannot resolve satisfactorily....

As odd as it sounds after eight years, today I need to take a “personal day,” Sometimes, a higher order calls. While I am away, I would be very grateful if some of you would make a contribution toward the upkeep of...

The administration’s argument for limited punitive strikes against Syria to uphold an international norm against the use of chemical weapons is destined to fail with progressives. But this fact is largely unrelated to the...

There are a number of reasons why communism collapsed but I’ve felt for a long time that one of the underappreciated reasons was the the West knew how to have fun. A lot of people look back at the Carter administration as...