Author: BooMan

I don’t know much about House Majority Whip-Elect Steve Scalise. There’s not much information about him at his Wikipedia page. He graduated from LSU with a major in computer programming and a minor in political...

Californian Rep. Kevin McCarthy won the secret-ballot election to replace Eric Cantor as House Majority Leader once Cantor resigns his post at the end of July. The only thing I’d expect to see by way of change is a little...

Gallup finds that Congress has officially lapped chlamydia in the unpopularity department: The current 7% of Americans who place confidence in Congress is the lowest of the 17 institutions Gallup measured this year, and is the...

Things that make me nauseated even as I laugh: Dear [St. Louis] Post-Dispatch readers, Starting today, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson replaces George Will on Thursdays and Sundays. Mr. Gerson, who grew up in St. Louis...

Driftglass makes a solid point about Rachel Maddow’s perturbation at the booking of Iraq warmongers on television to talk about the situation there as if they are experts. …MSNBC shares several floors of a building...