Author: BooMan

Can a Brother Get Some Credit?

I looked around briefly and I didn’t see much attention being paid to this in the blogosphere: In a decision that could have a major impact on both the mining industry and the Obama Administration’s relationship with...

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Stop the Nonsense

Probably the biggest problem facing the country right now is the nature of the Republican Party. More than anything, the problem is their dishonesty. Dishonesty is associated with politicians of all stripes and parties, but...

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Mike Lee and the Need for Filibuster Reform

A lot of attention has been paid to incoming Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and his wacky views, but Senator Mike Lee of Utah is arguably just as insane. Consider this lecture he gave in Draper, Utah : Congress decided it wanted...

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Some Idle Thoughts

We lost the House and most of our Senate majority in the election this past November. There’s a school of thought that we did something wrong that allowed this to happen. Maybe the administration should have left health...

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Trouble in the Maghreb

In other countries people tend to riot when they have persistent high employment. That’s what’s going on Algeria and Tunisia. In the case of Tunisia, cables about official corruption that were released by WikiLeaks...

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