Author: BooMan

To properly respond to David Brooks’ latest column, I would have to do research, which means I would have to greatly delay responding to his column. So, consider this an improper response. As long as America maintains its...

What do North Korea, Lindsay Lohan, the Ebola virus, gonorrhea and the Kardashians have in common? They are the only things people say that they dislike more than Congress. People vastly prefer lice to Congress, which I found...

Oh, good, we’re hitting the debt ceiling earlier than expected. Fire up the platinum mint!! I see that a former director of the U.S. Mint has come out in favor of the platinum coin gambit. He certainly has credibility on...

For the record, and Duncan’s benefit, I don’t think the platinum coin gambit would cause inflation in our current situation, I know that the president wouldn’t use it to buy bling, and I have said nothing about...

I kind of, sort of, understand Democrats who are pushing the platinum coin gambit as a kind of tit-for-tat madman rejoinder to the Republicans’ threat to default on our debt. If the idea is that we’ll act just as...