Author: BooMan

What’s that definition of insanity again? Oh, yeah. Martha Coakley. I’m not expecting a different result.

Senate elections in South Dakota aren’t necessarily nail-biters, but occasionally they can be. Back in 1996, which was a presidential election year, Democrat Tim Johnson defeated incumbent Republican Larry Pressler by a...

I’m keeping an eye on early voting statistics because they are at least real instead of theoretical. However, they are difficult to interpret. From what I see so far, the Democrats have reason for optimism in North...

In the immediate post-war period, if you wanted good intelligence on what was happening in Europe, and particularly what was happening with the Soviets and Soviet influence within European societies, it was hard to find better...

I remember reading about the arrest of Alan Gross when it happened back in 2009. I knew that the Cubans accused him of being some kind of spy who was setting up electronic equipment on the island in a surreptitious way. At the...