Author: BooMan

It Looks Like It’s On

See? I make a suggestion and the White House races out to do my bidding. After pledging to send a job-creation package to Congress next month and daring Republicans to block it, President Obama offered few specifics Tuesday...

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Will Rick Perry Put Stars & Bars on Car Plates?

From what I can tell, use of Nazi flags is banned in Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, and Israel. Their use is somewhat restricted in several other countries. As a matter of free speech, their use is unrestricted in the United...

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A Word on Greenwald’s Worldview

It’s not very nice to take Glenn Greenwald on about an article in which he cites me approvingly, but I do have to lodge a complaint about his style of rhetoric. I don’t have a problem with his ranting about Ron Paul...

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The GOP Search for a Contender

Is Brent Budowsky speaking as a typical Texas Democrat, or as a proxy for the intelligence community? I can think of several nations Rick Perry is fit to lead, but the United States of America is not one of them. With his latest...

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What’s Perry’s Motivation?

I don’t know if Brian Beutler is right about Rick Perry or not. Beutler thinks that Perry’s criticism of Ben Bernacke’s quantitative easing program is an acknowledgement that printing more money than usual will...

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