Author: BooMan

All of my biological grandparents have passed away. That happens when your mother is 37 years-old at the time she gives birth to you. My maternal grandfather lived the longest. He was born in Hoboken in 1902 and I think he died...

I’m proud of Obama for doing the right thing and for doing so in such eloquent form. There’s a lot of political pressure to make concessions to fear and bigotry and hate, but he didn’t flinch.

I have a kind of unwritten rule that I don’t respond to right-wing talk radio hosts. That’s why you so seldom see Rush Limbaugh mentioned at the Frog Pond. But apparently he’s now arguing that it is the...

Even if I agreed with Charles Krauthammer that the site of the former World Trade Center (ground zero) has the same meaning to Americans as Treblinka does for Jews, the proposed mosque is not at ground zero, but several blocks...

This may seem like weak tea, but as a former ACORN county coordinator I can tell you that it matters a lot. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993, better known as the motor-voter law, is well-known for making it possible...