Author: BooMan

Geraldine Ferraro has died of complications from multiple myeloma. My thoughts are with her family and loved ones. Japan is becoming increasingly toxic, with the widespread soil contamination probably their biggest long-term...

Bob Herbert is leaving the New York Times after eighteen years. His last column is a good one. I liked this part: The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it...

With the president trying to deal with three wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, bitching and moaning among our allies in NATO, a nuclear crisis in Japan, unrest in Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria, an escalation of...

Well, I agree with the critique of the Republicans, anyway… In his deliberative fashion, Obama ultimately saved countless lives in the short term, and will allow the rebels in Libya to own their revolution in the long...

Other than Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, it doesn’t really look like anyone is serious about winning the Republican nomination. Oh, sure, everyone from Rick Santorum to Donald Trump is talking about running, or, in Newt...