Author: BooMan

I don’t really care to have a debate with Dick Cheney and George W. Bush over whether or not Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. I don’t care what we call it. It doesn’t matter. The President explained our...

Erik Eckholm has an article in the New York Times on the plight of black men in modern day America, and some of the statistics may surprise you. ¶The share of young black men without jobs has climbed relentlessly, with only a...

Mob Facts Giuseppe Esposito was believed to be the first member of the Sicilian Mafia to emigrate to the U.S. He came to New York in 1890, after murdering almost a dozen landowners and the two leaders of his...

I was born in 1969 shortly after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. My earliest political memory is the funeral of Harry S Truman at the end of 1972. I don’t remember anything else political until Gerald...

How’s everyone doing?