Author: BooMan

There’s no perfect way to evaluate how a senator votes, but one metric I like is Progressive Punch’s Progressive Score vs. State Tilt. What this rating attempts to do is to compare the progressivism of members...

I don’t know what is going on in Maine. I remember that there were shenanigans involving Mitt Romney snagging Ron Paul’s delegates, and I know that their governor is a certified lunatic. But now it looks like a lot...

If I understand the Birther Controversy correctly, the problem was that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore could not be the president of the United States because he wasn’t a “natural born” citizen....

I don’t know if I hate the pro-Greenwald or anti-Greenwald forces more. I just know that I actively dislike them both. And I don’t care if they quote me accurately.

Here’s more evidence that the GOP is alienating some of their strongest traditional allies. As Greg Sargent muses, one wonders how much longer business leaders will abide the monster they created with the Tea Party. No...