Author: BooMan

Anne Applebaum hits the nail on the head with this one: Indeed, there could be no more eloquent condemnation of the Bush administration’s torture and detention policies than the deafening silence that followed [Khalid...

Michael Kinsley doesn’t understand why there is any thing wrong with politicizing the Justice Department and firing prosecutors that aren’t ‘loyal Bushies’. That’s bad enough. What’s worse is...

In answer to Armando, via email: Why I Will Not Vote Against Funding Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) It is time for our troops to come home. And it’s time for us to bring them home swiftly. But we have a moral...

The inestimable Michael Barone: “They always blame America first.” That was Jeane Kirkpatrick, describing the “San Francisco Democrats” in 1984. But it could be said about a lot of Americans, especially...

Despite the Republican dominance of American politics since George W. Bush ‘won’ election in 2000, the two major parties have been, in historical terms, quite evenly matched. In two straight presidential elections...