Author: BooMan

Russ Douthat has a somewhat decent column in today’s New York Times that argues persuasively that Sarah Palin never should have accepted John McCain’s invitation to join his ticket. I agree with Douthat about that....

Some people have all the luck. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 93, died in his sleep early Monday at his Washington home, according to media reports. He died in his sleep at the age of 93. Somehow, that doesn’t...

Glenn Greenwald conducted an interesting interview with Charlie Savage, the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist, about the Obama administration’s national security policies and civil liberties. Here is the...

Does anyone else feel that grounding teenagers for their misbehavior tends to punish the parents more severely than the child? Who needs a skulking, bored, teenager moping around the house?

Here’s a shocker, coming from David Broder: Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats — at least on paper — have the...