Author: BooMan

I don’t have the right frame of mind, let alone the stamina, today to do a really detailed treatment of Shadi Hamid’s latest piece in Democracy, but everyone should take a read. I’d say I agree with about 90%...

I have some quibbles with how the 110th Congress has conducted itself, but I wouldn’t say that I disapprove…not in a binary approve/disapprove poll, anyway. The public feels differently. Fueled by disappointment at...

The Senate voted 53-38 (roll call) to invoke cloture and express no confidence in Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. These are the Republicans that voted against Gonzales: Coleman (MN), Collins (ME), Hagel (NE), Smith (OR),...

Via Adam B, via email: “The Fourth Circuit today held that this Administration violated the Constitution by holding Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri as an enemy combatant in a military brig without formally charging him for...

The need to hire expensive Washington lawyers is an impediment to attracting bright young newcomers to the administration.- Robert Novak That’s kind of funny. Cuz it’s true.