Author: BooMan

Conor Friedersdorf can be infuriating. He constructs an entire argument based on the premise that a) you can never totally eliminate damaging leaks of classified information, and b) that if you are too effective in limiting...

A British soldier was attacked and killed on the street in the Woolwich section of London. His assailants hit him with a car and then attacked him with a knife and a machete. Afterwards, they dragged the victim into the street...

The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia is a real piece of work. He’s the first person I’ve seen argue that the three-fifth’s compromise in the Constitution was an anti-slavery provision....

If I understand it correctly, the last time we had to raise the debt ceiling, the Republicans balked and decided to merely suspend the requirement that we operate with a debt ceiling. That suspension has sunsetted as of May...

The history of Jewish immigration to America makes for interesting reading. What can we surmise from the fact that Irving Kristol was born in Brooklyn in 1920 “into a family of low-income, nonobservant Jews”?...