Author: BooMan

The Second Amendment is an Anachronism

The U.S. Constitution provided for a permanent Navy, but it would not do the same for an army. The Congress shall have Power To …raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer...

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The Story of Stone, Manafort and Donald Trump

At age 19 or 20, Roger Stone, who was then an employee of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), was the youngest person to testify before the Watergate grand jury. Call it a badge of honor. In 1977, Paul Manafort...

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The Polluters are in Control

In 2017, 13 federal agencies expressed high confidence that “more than 92 percent of the observed rise in global average temperatures since 1950 is the direct result of human activity.” But the Trump administration...

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Texas Democrats are Eager to Vote

I’ve often compared the red/blue divide in our politics to two tectonic plates that are locked together. Every so often, there is some slippage along the fault line that causes a minor political earthquake, but things...

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