Author: BooMan

From Todd Purdum’s piece on Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair: What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but...

Thomas Ricks, author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, is definitely not optimistic about Iraq’s chances now that the deadline has arrived for American troops to leave the cities. Basically, he assumes...

Help me out here. I am going to go out on a limb and accept the statistics at face-value. That may turn out to be a mistake on my part, but I want to examine this argument on its merits. Let’s say it is misleading to claim...

The Star-Tribune reports that Franken can expect a signed certificate of election if the Minnesota Supreme Court, as expected, rules in his favor. After hedging for weeks about how he’ll react to the state Supreme Court...

There was a brief period of time, probably in 2004, when I thought Dana Milbank was doing a decent job of showing a sane level of skepticism about the Bush administration’s pronouncements and behavior. He wasn’t...