Author: BooMan

It appears to be an article of faith on the right that members of the black community will riot if George Zimmerman is acquitted. Some right-wingers are going further than that and predicting that the jurors will be murdered and...

I knew that John Fund was a liar, but I didn’t know that he was an amateur conspiracy theorist. He’s quite bad at it. Let’s start with the headline of his piece: Obama’s Alinskyite Administration. You may be...

David Brooks is making sense: Whether this [immigration] bill passes or not, this country is heading toward a multiethnic future. Republicans can either shape that future in a conservative direction or, as I’ve tried to argue,...

Alan I. Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira understate the stupidity and futility of the GOP doubling-down on the all-white electoral strategy. Why? Because, while they prove that the strategy won’t work, they neglect to point out...

This morning, I had basically given up on the idea that George Zimmerman would be convicted of anything. I just didn’t feel like the prosecution had removed all reasonable doubt about self-defense. After watching the...