Author: BooMan

I have now perused the New York Times and the Washington Post, and I checked out Steve Benen, Steve M., Jeralyn, and Kevin Drum. All of this, in an effort to get my head around the controversy about the Department of...

There are parts of this Michelle Cottle piece that I like and admire, and parts that make me cringe. I am beginning to wonder if my cultural antennae are malfunctioning because I am totally not getting this fascination with...

Before he made a fortune in the car alarm business, Darrell Issa was a car thief. He denies it, of course. See, he doesn’t call it car thieving. He calls it an “act of theft,” which is his way of covering up...

Regardless of what the Republicans say, they are the ones creating a dangerous precedent with their obstruction. Their treatment of EPA nominee Gina McCarthy is simply ridiculous. First, they loaded her down with 1,100 written...

There were nine shooting incidents in Philadelphia over the weekend, only one of which resulted in a fatality. Most shootings in Philly occur in poor areas far removed from Center City. That was true this weekend, too, except...