Author: BooMan

DOJ Rightly Dismissed Faux-Panther Case

I know it’s shocking that two black guys were allowed to don Black Panther costumes and stand around in front of a polling station in Philadelphia on election day in 2008, but it didn’t constitute a violation of...

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I Told You This Was a Bad Idea

Just reading through this New York Times article, I found validation for pretty much every concern I expressed about getting involved in Libya. But one thing leapt out at me. The French government, which has led the...

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A Window into the Senate

Well, if there was any doubt that Chuck Schumer is in charge of messaging for the Senate Democrats, I guess that’s over: Moments before a conference call with reporters was scheduled to get underway on Tuesday morning,...

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Meanwhile, in Afghanistan

If the Taliban are brazenly taking over districts while our coalition is there, what will happen if we ever leave? I think we asked the same question for a decade in Vietnam, but it proved impossible to stop the NVA’s...

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Forecasting Fail

It’s weird. It’s both impossible to imagine that Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination and to imagine that he won’t. That actually places him above any of his challengers. I can’t imagine any of...

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