Author: BooMan

Eve Peyser does a good job of explaining how the phrase “owning the libs” gained currency and what it means. The occasion is U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley’s recent decision to admonish a bunch of high schoolers...

It was quite a weekend in Philadelphia. At least 165 people overdosed on Friday and Saturday alone. According to the reporting, the culprit was fentanyl that has been laced into the city’s heroin supply. This time however,...

As far as I understand it, the idea behind tariffs is to protect domestic industries from cheaper foreign alternatives. And that’s a choice that sometimes makes sense unless you’re wedded to the idea that the price...

Seth Ackerman assures us in Jacobin that Russiagate Can’t End Well for the Left and he accuses liberals of “using Russiagate to gin up nationalist fervor and anti-Russian paranoia.” Using the McCarthy Era as...

Stan Collender, who is one of the best analysts on the congressional budgeting process, has put up a doomsday clock at his blog. It says that the Republicans have sixty-nine days left before the government shuts down again, but...