Author: BooMan

Thwarting ObamaCare Incompetently

Why are the Republicans who run North Carolina failing so spectacularly to thwart enrollment in ObamaCare? North Carolina’s enrollment in the Affordable Care Act federal insurance exchange reached a level in December that was...

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Serious Question

Under the scheme envisioned in a bipartisan bill to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965, only states with five violations of federal voting laws over the last 15 years would be required to seek preclearance to change their...

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Quote of the Day

Ed Kilgore: I don’t have anything terribly original to offer this King Day about my hero’s historical significance. He held up a mirror to America and asked us all to live up to our own professed civic and religious values. For...

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J-Rube’s Pointless Water-Carrying

If allowing the Pearl Harbor attacks to happen hasn’t much tarred Franklin Roosevelt’s reputation, it is unclear to me why Hillary Clinton should be subject to so much abuse about the tragic loss of American lives in...

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The Price For Letting Them Off Easy

Things that make me want to sanitize my brain by dunking my head in a bucket of iodine: As George W. Bush’s public image improves, more former Bush officials are running for office — and are starting to tout their...

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