Author: BooMan

This may not interest you, but my congressman, Jim Gerlach, is retiring. This comes as quite a surprise to me because, with the new congressional maps drawn after the 2010 Census, Gerlach was finally blessed with a safe...

Here is something for economic illiterates to consider: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported last month that, while the emergency UI [unemployment insurance] program would cost $25.7 billion for another year, it would...

Classy.

It isn’t just me who is so gobsmacked by The Stupid we have to endure to participate in the national political discourse that I am left sputtering bile. Here is Charles P. Pierce having a conniption: Now that [The]...