Author: BooMan

I spoke earlier about how fear is keeping Congress from allowing President Obama to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay. This is the consequence of that fear. It’s a credit to our country that a detainee can get himself...

John Merrow really takes Michelle Rhee to the woodshed. I don’t spend much time thinking about education policy, but it seems like I’ve been missing out on quite a scandal. I suspect that Atlanta and DC are just the...

I like this piece from Jim Wright which I came to through Jay Ackroyd. It’s a worthy rant, and it’s on a topic I keep coming back to over and over. Fear. Fear and its role in politics is the key that unlocks the...

Ironically, the golf snitch who narced out Pagraig Harrington in 2011 wound up saving Tiger Wood’s ass at this year’s Masters. Back in 2011, while playing the seventh hole at the Abu Dhabi Championship, Harrington...

My proposal is to load Jeremi Suri in a missile and launch him into the Pacific Ocean. There he can drown. And we can lose the life of one culpable moron instead of the lives of an incalculable number of innocent people who...