Author: BooMan

You might remember my piece from this morning in which I mused on the inner workings of Senator Chuck Grassley’s brain to try to suss out the thinking behind the Republicans’ serial obstruction of the...

Here’s one more brick in the road to Appomattox, Part Deux: Supreme Court decisions or not, Defense Department orders or not, bigots are gonna be bigots. That’s the reminder we get from various states’ refusals...

Freshman Congressman Trey Radel (R-FL) was just convicted on a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession and received probation. He admits to suffering from alcoholism, which he blames for his poor choice to purchase cocaine....

Brian Beutler is one of the savviest political analysts in the country right now. For example, he (as did I) completely nailed how the government shutdown would go more than a month beforehand. When he writes something I...

I suppose it is possible that Greg Sargent is being used as a conduit to issue a credible threat, but the threat (and the reasoning behind the threat) seems credible to me. Harry Reid intends to “go nuclear” before...