Author: BooMan

Recriminations Begin in Aurora Shooting

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...

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Why Doesn’t the Left Do These Things?

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,...

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Sorkin’s Problem

Alex Pareene’s take down of Aaron Sorkin seems unnecessarily harsh. I’ve watched the first three episodes of The Newsroom and I don’t think it is awful. However, Pareene did a service by explaining to me...

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The Politics of Marijuana

It might not be an ideal situation, but I believe there is very little a presidential candidate could do that would be more effective at attracting new voters than to come out for relaxing our marijuana laws. The easiest and...

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North Dakota’s Black Gold Rush

If you have enough money and a decent credit score, there appears to be almost limitless ways that you can become a millionaire in North Dakota. Their oil boom is so big and so sudden that they don’t have enough of...

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