Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

I think I mentioned that insurance for the long-term unemployed would not get extended if it wasn’t made part of the Murray-Ryan negotiations. Right now, the Senate Republicans are balking because they want to be able to...

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Unfair to Call Boycotters Anti-Semites

One thing I agree with Charles Krauthammer about is that Israel gets a lot of criticism that is rarely applied to their neighbors, who are even more guilty of human rights violations and oppression. I think it’s true that...

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Bob Menendez is a Problem

Among elected officials from New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie is not the biggest asshole. That designation belongs to Sen. Bob Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is actively undermining the...

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Today in Carbon

Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have formed a Climate Action Task Force to try to convince Congress to do something productive and to prevent them from doing anything stupid. Meanwhile, the...

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No One Believes Christie

David Wildstein, the former Port Authority honcho who was thrown under the bus this morning during Governor Chris Christie’s press conference, has been found in contempt of the New Jersey assembly for refusing to answer...

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