Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

Donald Rumsfeld should keep his mouth shut and his head down. And he probably ought to avoid foreign travel unless he wants to be aggravated by shenanigans.

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Ten Years Gone

Now that we’ve arrived at the ten-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it’s natural for people to look back and analyze how things were and how things have changed. I’ve noticed quite a bit of...

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What’s Time Got to Do With It?

Of all the manufactured crises and outrages of the right during Obama’s first term, nothing was more painfully stupid than their freakout over Philadelphia’s three living members of the New Black Panthers. There...

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The End of the Party of Reagan

I actually think J-Rube’s column today is thoughtful. I have been having many of the same thoughts. She begins by making a statement of fact: Thirty years after Ronald Reagan was president, Republicans are still running on...

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The War is Now On

Michael O’Brien of NBC News has a useful breakdown of the details in GOP chairman Reince Priebus’s 100-page report, the “Growth and Opportunity Project.” The report is part analysis of why the Republicans...

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