Author: BooMan

Everybody seems to be flogging the top-two primary system that has been instituted in California and Washington state as the antidote to hyper-partisanship and gridlock. I favor the top-two system, but not because I think it is...

I don’t know quite what to say other than that Bruce Labay and David Ladwig are extremely stupid individuals. And they seem to be part of a much larger tribe of monstrously stupid people.

Reading this article about the potential for the Republican Party to split in two if they lose the 2016 presidential election, I began to wonder how the 20th-Century would have played out differently if the Republican Party...

It seems like almost every major news organization in the country is running an article about how the business community is frustrated with the Tea Party and contemplating how they can wrest back control of the Republican Party...

Jon Lovett can be uneven, but he has some magical flashes, like this one: It happened slowly, didn’t it? The change in the Republican Party? I don’t know. Maybe it’s nostalgia. There have always been the wild, vicious voices of...