Author: BooMan

While Newt Gingrich is clearly wrong that Nazis could be legally precluded from putting up a sign or billboard near the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, I think it’s a valid question whether that ought to be the case. If...

I refuse to get used to this. In remembrance:

Sometimes I worry that my readers will get a kind of whiplash as I alternate between alarmist and optimistic messages. The truth is, though, that I am both alarmed and optimistic. As I’ve said, I think we have the better...

Anyone remember the opening to Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech? “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree...

Hey, Matt Taibbi seems to have finally wised up about the biggest threat facing our country, which isn’t, by the way, that we’ve suddenly become ruled by a bunch of powerful corporate interests. I’m beginning...