Author: BooMan

Adios, Fidel Castro

As you might expect, the Miami Herald has an excellent retrospective on the life of Fidel Castro who has passed away at the age of ninety. He was such a consequential man that there many angles one can take. As the Herald notes,...

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Trump’s Public and Private Positions

Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, traveled to Japan in mid-October when things were looking pretty grim for his candidate. He was there “on the invitation of a U.S. company for which he serves...

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Should the Electors Choose Trump?

Lawrence Lessig says that the Electoral College should select Hillary Clinton as our next president, which is not unreasonable on its face. The Electoral College serves two distinct purposes. One is that it creates dozens of...

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Trump Blowing Off Intelligence Briefings

Let’s take a look at how the last three presidents handled getting intelligence briefings during the transition period between their early November election and their inauguration on January 20th. President Bill Clinton...

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The Left Needs to Cultivate Its Talent

The following isn’t necessarily the main point of Michael Tomasky’s piece, but it’s what stuck out to me. …there are four Democratic senators from deep-red states who are up for reelection in 2018. The...

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