Author: BooMan

People Want Political Solutions to Gun Violence

At least 58 people are dead and more than 500 are injured after a mass shooting last night at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooter opened fire from a window of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Anyone...

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Speechless

I don’t know what to say about the massacre in Las Vegas. I’d like to know why he did it. I’d like to know how he picked his targets. But that’s just curiosity on my part. All that matters is that he...

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I’ll Rationalize Trump’s Behavior

I’m a little frustrated with Nate Silver’s frustration. I understand the basic impulse to rage against anyone who attributes a single positive attribute to Donald Trump, even if the positive attribute (cunning,...

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Casual Observation

Did President Trump add $33 million to Puerto Rico’s debt by bankrupting a golf course there? No? Not really? Not if we’re being fair? Okay, maybe we shouldn’t say that then. Right? Maybe we can have the Russians say...

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Why Can’t You Meet My Impossible Demands?

Without getting bogged down in the full spectrum of insanity that surrounds the Republican Party’s behavior and policy toward Planned Parenthood, I am willing to acknowledge that opponents of abortion have an...

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