Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

Stripping Section Five from the Voting Rights Act will never look as brutal in retrospect as the Dred Scott decision, but it will be a black mark that this Court will never recover from.

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Dinner With the President

Prior to his reelection, I don’t think the president would have profited from schmoozing with Republican senators much, if at all, but we’ve reached an impasse in the post-election period and something needs to give....

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Time to Deal With Guns

As NPR reports, this morning the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on four bills that seek to address our problems with gun violence. Because the Judiciary Committee is stocked with reliable liberals, all four bills are...

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Making Yourself Laughable

Would it be constitutional to drone-blast an innocent grandmother while she was walking her toy dog across the street? Why can’t Eric Holder answer this question? Why is it so difficult for him to straightforwardly admit...

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If I Had a Rocket Launcher…

I want a AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. I am assured that it is the best attack helicopter in the world and if it’s not, it’s close enough. It can fly 184 miles per hour. It can go 323 miles on a tank of gas. It has...

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