Author: BooMan

Andrew McCarthy’s Islamophobia

At the always ahead of the times, always racially enlightened National Review, Andrew McCarthy takes issue with Charles Krauthammer’s criticisms and defends Ben Carson’s Islamophobia. McCarthy makes an extended, if...

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Everything the Same, But Worse

I don’t know what happened to this Republican’s brain, but I hope it isn’t something that happens to you: Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) — a co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, which had been the epicenter...

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No Tears for John Boehner

Why is there this impulse to empathize and even feel sorry for John Boehner? The internet is thick with cruel GIFs of John Boehner crying today after he announced he was resigning as Speaker of the House and quitting Congress....

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Yeah, I Saw This Coming

Whether the following is the whole story or not, it seems to be basically unassailable: [Speaker John] Boehner, who capped his career with Thursday’s address by Pope Francis, met with a handful of the most conservative...

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They Won’t Provoke The Borg

I’m more of an original series Star Trek guy, but I was intrigued by the transhuman race of cyborgs in the later shows. Known as The Borg, they operated like a hive (with a queen) and they assimilated other planets,...

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