Author: BooMan

I normally try to answer my own questions rather than asking the community to do it, but things are hectic around here lately. So, here’s a challenge. Find out when the UN inspectors arrived in Syria (I believe it was...

Kathleen Parker has a warped way of looking at things. Stepping out from his usual duties of drawing meaningless red lines in the Syrian sand, the president splashed red paint across the American landscape: “If I had a son, he’d...

Most states are pretty stable in their political preferences, at least on the presidential level, but Iowa hops around. It went for Gore in 2000, Bush in 2004, and Obama in the last two elections. It can be contrarian, too,...

Possibly still irked that I said he was smug in his self-righteousness in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict, Charles P. Pierce links to me disapprovingly to argue that the vessel that is Glenn Greenwald can be filled...

Dana Milbank, who is about a year and a half older than I am, is morose about our generation. I think he’s off base. Now in our mid-forties, the people of our generation are only beginning to assume positions of power. We...