Author: BooMan

I think Matt Yglesias is right both about allowing for mass emigration from Haiti to first-world countries, and about the wisdom of using French-speaking soldiers and police officers from Canada, Switzerland, and France....

For a while I thought the intelligence community might have entrapped former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter into approaching a 16 year-old girl in a Burger King in retaliation for his public insistence that Saddam Hussein...

How do Democrats get their mojo back? Well, how about proposing a financial crisis responsibility fee of $90 billion to be levied on the nation’s largest banks and financial institutions and then waiting for the...

Pat Robertson said something else stupid and insensitive. ROBERTSON: [S]omething happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. Napoleon the Third and...

I don’t know what to do about Port-au-Prince. From the reports I am hearing, not only are around 100,000 people dead but no, or virtually no, buildings in the city are structurally sound. Over a million people live in the...