Author: BooMan

This is Exhibit A on why this country is quickly being turned into an Idiocracy by the GOP: House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he’s “not qualified to debate the science over climate change” while...

It’s an enduring stain on the reputation and standing of our country that nothing that Dick Cheney did as vice-president has been deemed a crime worthy of prosecution. As Charles Pierce pointed out yesterday, the war in...

Alec MacGillis helpfully explains that: …New York is one of only a handful [of states] in the country with “fusion” laws that allow a candidate to appear on the ballot on the line of more than one political...

What are you listening to?

It would be hard for New York State politics to get any more interesting or harder to write about. Just trying to think about explaining it all makes me exhausted. It would be fascinating for its own sake even if it didn’t...