Author: BooMan

Most people probably consider former President Jimmy Carter to be some kind of liberal, but that’s not how he ran for and won the nomination of his party. He was a centrist and moderate reformer, liberal only for his home...

I’ve been abiding by the “today-is-not-a-day-for-politics’ creed because I want to show a proper respect for the dead and injured and not try to enlist them to win any preexisting political argument....

One of the saddest and weirdest things to come out of the Aurora Shooting so far is that one young woman who lost her life had recently narrowly avoided being killed in a mall shooting in Toronto while she was on vacation. She...

Some 24 year-old with Tennessee roots walked into an Aurora, Colorado movie theater with some guns, a gas mask, a bullet-proof vest, and some smoke (or, maybe, tear gas) canisters, and then opened fire on the audience. It was...

It’s interesting to me that we don’t see corollaries on the left of a lot of the stuff that we see on the right. I’m talking about from elected officials, not some-dudes on the internet. Why, for example,...