Author: BooMan

This is not good enough: Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs says: “I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. … Nobody had, in January of 2009, a...

I came across an interesting response to my It’s The Stupid, Stupid piece. Parts of it struck me as a touch pedantic and triumphant, but I thought the conclusion was stimulating. I think it is crucial to grasp, first, that...

Pretty much every article published by The Hill has a comments section that looks like this one: I’m all for free speech, but there isn’t any moderation of The Hill’s comments section at all. This has bothered...

If we had an ‘Article of the Month Club,’ this would be your reading and we’d all be making up bullet points to discuss it. Read it and tell me what you think.

Ali Abunimah’s op-ed in the New York Times compares Sinn Fein and the IRA to Hamas and wonders why we treat the groups differently. There are a lot of reasons for that. But Abunimah is probably correct that we ought to...