Author: BooMan

To say that I am concerned and alarmed at what I see happening to the Republican Party in DC would be a gross understatement. You might be welcoming the news that the House of Representatives finally reauthorized the Violence...

The following is an excerpt from page 267 of my 2005 edition of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, a book which formed the basis for the movie Lincoln. The setting is the 1860 presidential campaign, shortly after...

Things you can learn on the Internet: Antonin Gregory Scalia is the only child of Salvadore Eugene and Catherine Panaro Scalia. His father emigrated from Sicily as a teenager and came through Ellis Island. That’s cool. One...

Have you ever been thrown in a sack with a hungry and half-mad badger and then been told to take the wheel and drive the car? No? Well, then you’re not Barack Obama and you haven’t met David Ignatius. Some of us can...

Chief Justice Roberts has been gunning for the Voting Rights Act since he was in short pants. If you want to know the sordid history, which began when Roberts worked in the Reagan Administration, Adam Serwer has the recap. You...