Author: BooMan

A Reminder on Gitmo

We will be discussing Guantanamo Bay’s prison facility this week. We will be discussing it because more than 700 highly classified documents pertaining to the detainees housed there have been leaked to the press. The New...

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Take the High Road

I understand why Egyptians want to put Mubarak on trial for murder, but it’s not helping matters in other Arab countries. Presently, people are trying to get the president of Yemen to leave office voluntarily. The same...

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Honest Dishonesty

Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin are given space in the New York Times to argue for a conservative alternative to ObamaCare. Part of their plan is to surreptitiously do-away with the employer-based health care system. It’s a...

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Maybe the ACLU Ain’t So Bad

Poppy Bush wasn’t a natural culture-warrior. He started out pro-choice. His wife is still pro-choice. His daughter-in-law is pro-choice. Freaking David Souter turned out to be pro-choice. That’s why Poppy came up...

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Stupid Republicans

No one could have predicted this: Anxiety is rising among some Republicans over the party’s embrace of a plan to overhaul Medicare, with GOP lawmakers already starting to face tough questions on the issue at town hall meetings...

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