Author: BooMan

Take a look at the roll call of today’s House vote on the Farm Bill. That’s twenty-three votes shy of passing. That’s not even close. That’s a rout. And they wouldn’t have brought the bill up for a...

Wait until the Republicans realize that their breakthrough deal on immigration reform will create 20,000 government jobs! Amazing how that works. Never mind that they will be roaming around in the desert along the border with...

I probably cannot put into words how I feel about the death of James Gandolfini at the age of fifty-one. He was exactly eight years older than me, and also born and raised in New Jersey. It’s not his role as Tony Soprano...

Betty Woodruff doesn’t make any judgment on what she reports, so there is no way to know how she feels about the continuing influence of the Tea Party on Republican politics. Does she approve of signs that say, “NEXT TIME...

By happenstance, I know a young couple who had a child at a very young age. The father is in his early twenties and underemployed. The mother is probably 19, has a job, but isn’t exactly well paid. The baby is two. The...