Author: BooMan

I couldn’t get past the first sentence of Josh Kraushaar’s piece on The Rise of the Republican Pragmatists without balking. It at once indicated the trouble that was coming and made me want to break out my...

Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin can take this, pack it in their pipes, smoke it, and dump the ashes in the Elk River so their constituents can get a clue. BEIJING — China and the United States made common cause on Wednesday...

Does the specific context even matter? [Andew] Sullivan’s performance, in all its hyperventilating absurdity, is probably best received as an off-site contribution by a former editor to the New Republic’s ongoing...

Do you still give a crap?

I never seriously worried that the Roberts Court would invalidate the Affordable Care Act and I was mildly surprised that they even went so far as to make Medicaid expansion optional. In retrospect, I guess Chief Justice Roberts...