Author: BooMan

I hear people talking about Marco Rubio’s plan to do comprehensive immigration reform, but I can’t find the plan. He’s been giving interviews, and I can try to piece together a plan by reading transcripts of...

I only really started thinking about community policing strategies after I started watching the HBO program The Wire. That show attempted to show the difficulty of policing a large urban area with lots of gang and drug activity....

The last quarter saw a 22% reduction in defense spending, which is the largest quarterly drop since 1972, during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. That, combined with mayhem caused by Superstorm Sandy, caused the economy to...

I suppose that Lawrence O’Donnell will be disappointed, and I admit that I, too, liked the idea of Barney Frank as a senator. But Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick chose to appoint his former legal counsel and chief of...

The last cat I owned was basically an indoor cat who got some supervised time outside. Of course, you couldn’t bring the groceries in from the car without him escaping. And more than once, he managed to kill a bird in the...