Author: Arthur Gilroy

The Washingtoon Post headline: Kerry sails through Senate confirmation hearing on secretary of state bid Well…yeah. So nu? He always had it in mind that he would eventually be paid off for keeping his trap shut after the...

Booman wrote a piece today (Fri., 1/25) regarding the so-called filibuster compromise. It was titled Senate Dems Abdicated Their Duty. “Senate Dems Abdicated Their Duty???!!!” Well…I guess you have to first...

Booman in his recent article How To Be Transformative wrote very approvingly of the following general idea as laid out by CBS News chief Washington correspondent John Dickerson : The president who came into office speaking in...

In Booman’s too little (and way too late) about-face post regarding the so-called Trillion Dollar Coin idea (What Bugged Me About the Coin) both santiago and Frank Schnittger posted cogent responses that dealt with...

In a comment of Booman’s recent post Ho-Hum, Some More Shootings Water Girl asked a question. It’s a magic question, really, and it goes way past the problem of gun violence on the streets of the U.S. It goes to the...