Author: BooMan

It’s a travel day for me, as I beat it out of this fake city of Orlando. Yesterday was a record low temperature for the day, so it wasn’t exactly tropical down here. In other news, did you know that Jerry Rubin was...

I wonder, what are the absolutely essential elements of any good Christmas parade? You have to have Santa, right? And I’m thinking you need some reindeer. Some red and green lights. Are elves mandatory? What else? A sleigh...

Isn’t Dick Lugar conservative enough for the Republican Party? Is it really necessary to give him a primary challenge because he’s less than 100% unhinged? Is that what things have come to?

Paul Krugman wants the president to call the Republicans’ bluff and let all the Bush tax cuts expire, essentially raising taxes on everyone who isn’t living in poverty. Krugman acknowledges that this will complicate...

For a guy who goes around talking about globalization and a flat world, Tom Friedman sure seems surprised to discover that America can’t dictate outcomes the way we used to. He appears to have just learned that Arab...