Author: BooMan

Gee, I hadn’t noticed that the president has an empathy problem. Did you?

In my previous piece, I wrote about Milo Yiannopoulos’s ties to Nazis and, by extension, Steve Bannon and the Mercer family’s ties to Nazis. One of the things I referenced was Yiannopoulos’s night out at a...

I finally slogged my way through the entire BuzzFeed article on Breitbart News’s extensive ties to Naziism and it was one of the most dispiriting things I’ve ever done. I had a dim view of the organization already,...

The House Democratic leadership is getting up in years. Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn are both seventy-seven years old. Steny Hoyer is seventy-eight. And they’ve been in their leadership positions for quite a while now,...

Hopefully, you’ve heard to story of how Charles Sumner was beaten almost to death on the Senate floor in 1856. Sumner had delivered an incendiary anti-slavery speech a couple of days earlier in which he savagely...