Author: BooMan

Without regard to the merits, I am finding the politics of immigration reform fascinating. Mitch McConnell praised the Judiciary Committee when they voted out their bill and he still says that he wants the Senate to pass a bill....

If you are looking for bipartisanship, you can find it by looking at the Senate’s farm bill, which just passed with broad Republican support. It’s not a great bill by any means, but it’s vastly better than...

People make fun of the theory that President Obama engages in 11-dimensional chess. It’s hard to adequately explain what the term means because it probably means different things to different people. However, it basically...

The price for gaining Sen. Orrin Hatch’s qualified support for immigration reform was an agreement to double (and eventually triple) the number of H1-B immigration visas for high-tech workers. Meanwhile, Utah’s other...

A bunch of wingnuts in Colorado want form their own state of Crackpottopia, which they intend to call Northern Colorado. I expect that we will see similar sentiments before too long in Nevada and Arizona. I suppose it is better...