Author: BooMan

Some Arguments Are Too Stupid to Rebut

On the one hand: MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s Republican leaders have fought the Affordable Care Act at every turn, banning navigators from county health departments, offering no state dollars to boost outreach efforts to...

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Money is Fungible For You But Not For Me

I get really tired of the way the right, and the religious right in particular, uses the “money is fungible” argument to claim that they’re paying for people’s abortions and contraceptives. Just to keep...

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Nate Silver Doesn’t Aim to Please

Ed Kilgore is correct that Nate Silver would be better off without a fan base that only loves him as long as he’s telling them what they want to hear. On the other hand, people should understand what Nate does well and...

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Freedom of Not Being Embarrassed Act

It’s highly unlikely that releasing the files our intelligence agencies have on Nelson Mandela would hurt our national security or our foreign relations, but it would probably make our intelligence agencies look like...

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Your Pie-Hole, Shut-It

I can’t believe this trained ape still has the gall to open his pie-hole about U.S. foreign policy, or anything, really. Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday attacked the Obama administration for failing to...

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