Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

I think the biggest obstacle to immigration reform is not conservative opposition but the simple fact that John Boehner has no idea what he is doing. I’ve never seen anyone as incompetent with so much...

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Privatizing Security is a Bad Idea

For more than a decade I have regarded Booz Allen Hamilton as indistinguishable from the Central Intelligence Agency. However, I did not realize the degree to which they were flourishing. The company employs about 25,000 people,...

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Why Our Structures Are Screwing Us

Why are there 538 Electoral Votes? The answer is that that is the number you get if you add the 100 seats in the Senate and the 435 seats in the House, and then add three more votes for the District of Columbia. President Obama...

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Maybe Less Than Meets the Eye

Bob Cesca is trying to sort out fact from fiction in the allegations about the NSA’s domestic surveillance. It’s pretty tricky because the way the law works, the internet companies that were implicated couldn’t...

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How Crazy is Shannon Richardson?

I guess I recognize Shannon Richardson from watching The Walking Dead. The kids are obsessed with that show (not the little one), so I’ve been forced to watch it. It’s too violent for my tastes, but I get the appeal....

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