Author: BooMan

Quite often I feel like I am one of the few people in the country for whom the President of the United States is not an inscrutable personality. I never feel like I don’t know where he stands. He almost never surprises me....

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Kathleen Parker, arguing against allowing women to serve in combat situations: My favorite bumper sticker remains: “I’m out of estrogen and I have a gun.” That’s her favorite bumper...

Remember when people used to read about and write about what New York Times columnists had to say? Remember all those snarky takedowns of MoDo and The Mustache of Understanding? Remember when people linked approvingly to the...

Here is a segment of an interview that Chris Hughes and Franklin Foer conducted in the Oval Office with the president in mid-January. I think it is interesting: FF [Franklin Foer]: When you talk about Washington, oftentimes you...

I really appreciate all the thoughtful feedback you gave me on why you read this blog. Naturally, I enjoy all the compliments, but it’s more the tone of the comments that I find useful for understanding what it is that I...