Author: BooMan

Just Here for the Money

Well, this Roll Call piece is classic. Rahm Emanuel isn’t longing for a return to Washington anytime soon. CQ Roll Call spotted the Chicago mayor and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama after he cleared security at...

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Their Friends Abandoned Them

One thing that the brouhaha at The New Republic has done today is to rip off the scab and allow a lot of progressives to vent about old insults and frustrations. Most of the damage the magazine did to its “liberal”...

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White Supremacy is Almost Respectable Again

Digby makes some observations: Turn on Fox News on any given day and you’ll be convinced that white Americans can hardly get a break these days. The ongoing conversation about race in the U.S. has evolved in recent years to...

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The New Republic’s Proud History?

I don’t have a complicated relationship with The New Republic, so I don’t need to add a bunch of full disclosures to this piece. All I know is I had a subscription to the magazine that I let lapse sometime around...

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“Here’s Are Three Balls”

Yes, that headline is correct. Erick Erickson is encouraging his readers to buy three balls on Amazon and mail them to one of John Boehner’s district offices in Ohio where his staffers will look at them and go,...

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