Author: BooMan

I’m not reading Dick Cheney’s new memoir (I’m not paying for it, anyway) but I know from George Will that the 565- page book contains no apologies for anything. My first thought is that, at 565 pages, no...

If Rick Perry isn’t going to back off his claim that Social Security is unconstitutional, I have to wonder if any of the other candidates have the balls to aggressively defend Social Security and point out what a liability...

We still have some bands of rain and some major wind gusts, but the worst of it has blown through. Miraculously, we have not yet lost power, and as far as I can tell we have only branches…no trees…down on the...

My hurricane preparations are complete. I just saw the president on CNN heading a meeting at FEMA. He got all the governors to say on tape that they’ve gotten everything they need, so we should not be having any...

The Republicans really pounded their own approval ratings into the ground with their brinksmanship over the debt ceiling. Not only did they win a stinging rebuke from Standard & Poor and Federal Reserve chairman Ben...