Author: BooMan

I’ve Changed; Have You?

[Disclosure: I am a consultant for Democracy for America] Longtime readers know that I have never used this page to advocate for tighter handgun control. I think if you go back and read my reactions to the mass gun killings that...

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GOP Acknowledges it is not a National Party

It isn’t illegal to change how Electoral College delegates are allocated. If the Republicans want to change how Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin allocate their votes from winner-take-all to by...

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Obama’s Speech

Watch this speech and then tell me that we can’t do anything: This isn’t good enough anymore.

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Simple Observation

I was very moved by the president’s speech in Newtown, Connecticut tonight. I’d like to post a video of the speech in its entirety once it is available. I agree with him. We can’t say that the loss of our...

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Keep Your Mentally Ill Son Away from Guns

I found Liza Long’s plea troubling less for the seriousness of her difficulties than for her willingness to preemptively classify her son as a potential mass murderer. Maybe he is, but most likely he isn’t. And he...

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