Author: BooMan

Yes, you can solve the deficit problem, and you don’t have to touch Social Security to do it. You don’t have to charge admission to the Smithsonian museums to do it. You don’t have to defund NPR and PBS to do...

I’m kind of tired of listening to Hamid Karzai complain about U.S. troops in his country. Any other Afghan I would understand, but Karzai is the main beneficiary of our presence there and he’d be the first person to...

The National Security Archive is in the news because they forced the issue of the U.S. sheltering of Nazi war criminals into the open, eventually leading someone to leak the full unredacted report to the New York Times. But that...

It’s kind of amazing that the New York Times can write an article about Heath Shuler and the Blue Dogs without ever trying to analyze why so many of them lost. Shuler actually won reelection, but he doesn’t seem to...

Remember this? Anyone over the age of thirty-five has seen that video and should know that a bill cannot become a law unless Congress first passes it and sends it to the president for a signature. So, if the House Republicans...