Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

LOL. Mitch McConnell is hilarious: “I’m hoping that, after this two-week break, people are going to be in a more friendly mood,” he said in an interview Friday, noting that Democrats used fewer delay tactics on Gorsuch than some...

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Military Fail

I didn’t expect Trump’s missile strikes to change much on the ground in Syria and, in a way, that was a point in their favor. So long as it was a response to the use of chemical weapons and not a commitment to become...

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Are Priebus and Bannon on the Way Out?

If I were truly cynical, I’d wonder why the Syrian strike wasn’t put off a few days so that Trump could at least bask in the glow of conservative praise for successfully placing Neal Gorsuch on the Supreme Court....

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Putin or Trump: Who to Believe?

With Neal Gorsuch just confirmed to the Supreme Court and a Republican president launching missiles against a Middle Eastern country, today is not a comforting day to be a liberal.  Our Bush Era PTSD has been reactivated in a...

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Trump Strikes Syria

First the good part. The military strikes that Donald Trump authorized tonight against a Syrian airfield avoided many possible pitfalls. The target made sense, as it is the Intelligence Community’s assessment that the...

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