Author: BooMan

We lost power and our driveway is a skating rink. I do have internet access on my phone, but it’s hard to write much on a phone.

They sent a solid Princeton man to tell Hosni Mubarak that the jig is up. Who better to play the role of Grim Reaper of the Great American Empire than the son of Frank Wisner? For the uninitiated, Frank Wisner Sr. cut his teeth...

It’s kind of understandable that conservatives are remembering that George W. Bush talked about a democracy agenda for the Middle East, are seeing a movement towards democracy in Tunisia and Egypt, and are drawing the...

The president is going after fossil fuel subsidies for the third straight year. He probably won’t have any more success this time. When he releases his new budget in two weeks, President Obama will propose doing away with...

This is some seriously shallow analysis: When Obama plays the hawk he also wins friends on the center and the right. We like our presidents to act “against type” — in other words, for Republicans to use carrots...