Author: BooMan

Rodman Should Cancel Trip

Maybe Dennis Rodman is a mad genius. I certainly like the idea that dialogue with North Korea is better than total isolation, but sometimes you have to cancel a trip despite of whatever promises you may have made. Kim Jong Un...

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How to Prevent Another Santorum

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was born on November 17th, 1946, so he would be just shy of 70 years old on election day in 2016. That’s pretty aged for a presidential candidate, but he’s only a year older than Hillary...

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Paging Donald Trump

Jeh Johnson was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the Senate today. This would be unremarkable except that Jeh (pronounced ‘Jay’) is black, was born on September 11th, and is named after a Liberian...

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Lock-Em-Up Mentality Costs Money

Here is what happens when you are governed by wingnuts whose thinking on crime doesn’t extend beyond the punitive. BOISE – Nonviolent criminals are being kept behind bars in Idaho twice as long as they are in the rest of...

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Profile on Harry Reid

I don’t pay much attention to state-level politics, even in my home-state of Pennsylvania, but Jon Ralston single-handedly makes Nevada politics compelling. He is assisted, of course, by the curious and unique history of...

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