Author: BooMan

West Virginia may be the most interesting state in the country. At least, politically, it defies all stereotypes. It’s stridently anti-Obama, but Jay Rockefeller easily won another term in the Senate in 2008. Joe Manchin...

My brother Phil is testifying today before Bernie Sanders’ Committee on Veteran’s Affairs. I believe it is/was being carried on CSPAN. I’ll probably catch a rerun of it because I have to make preparations for...

An acquaintance of mine buried her daughter yesterday. She died on her 20th birthday of an opioid overdose. She had been in recovery for many months, but had suffered repeated relapses. Her introduction to opioids wasn’t...

It looks like Senate Republicans filibustered the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act for no other reason than to deny Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire a legislative accomplishment that she can run on in her...

Fred Barnes is pimping a Ben Carson presidential run. Apparently, Ben Carson will not run for president unless he receives some kind of direct message from God. However, Carson is beginning to wonder whether God is texting him:...