Author: BooMan

Sam Tanenhaus says that the party of Lincoln has become the party of Calhoun. I wonder whether that is fair to Calhoun. He was, after all, by all accounts a very intelligent man. Either way, the Democrats have clearly become the...

The federal budget is a massive undertaking, and if you go through it you will find projects that were completed using less money than was allocated, projects that were cancelled, projects that were created by typos and that...

I think 60% of my musical sensibilities were formed in the 1970s, and the rest were formed later but involved music made several decades earlier.

I understand and respect that Native Americans are near-universally offended by the name of the Washington Redskins and would like to see it changed. I wonder, however, if it is possible to find a replacement name that honors...

I agree with John Dickerson. Tea Party folks probably shouldn’t be gearing up for war with Karl Rove. Or, maybe they should be, I don’t know. Let’s consider what Rove’s Conservative Victory Project is...