Author: BooMan

I like how the National Review wants to make Levi Johnston the poster boy for the decline of marriage among high school educated middle Americans. Why not Bristol? And what exactly is a low-quality marriage? I thought that the...

David Brooks is an insufferable jackass. I have no use for his designation of ‘cluster’ and ‘network’ liberals. But he does come close to approximating the truth with this bit: The big story of the week...

John Lennon was killed when I was in sixth grade. My Spanish teacher kept a memorial for him up on the chalkboard for the rest of the year. She was cool. What were you doing when you heard John was dead? I feel...

My careful reading of this is that the Republicans are open to some small tinkering with the Estate Tax to appease House Democrats but that there won’t be much movement from the deal the White House hashed out with Senate...

I agree with Greg Sargent and I’ll go one further. I don’t even find the president’s effort to get a little political advantage out of his brushback of the ‘purist left’ to be an annoyance. If you...