Author: BooMan

I’ve been meaning to do a positive piece about the good, progressive things that are going on in Washington, because I hear so many people make comments about how they disappointed about one thing or another. It’s...

You know, I am beginning to forget some of the details of the Clinton impeachment saga, but I seem to remember that Newt Gingrich had a rather prominent role in it. There were a lot of Republicans that had some familiarity with...

One of the things that drives our foreign policy is what our national press chooses to focus on an what they choose to ignore. For example, Karen DeYoung has a new piece up at the Washington Post that focuses on an alleged...

Only the rarest politician is willing to criticize his or her nation’s soldiers. Even in the face of something as dreadful and inarguably indefensible as the photos from Abu Ghraib, a politician’s first instinct is...

When people talk about openly gay people serving in the military having a negative effect on ‘good order’, I always tend to look back at Executive Order 9981 which, in 1948, forced the beginning of racial integration...