Author: BooMan

The Senate failed to overcome a Republican filibuster of Chuck Hagel’s confirmation to be Secretary of Defense this afternoon. The vote was 58-40, with Sen. Vitter not voting, Sen. Hatch voting ‘present,’ and...

If you think that John McCain is a grumpy old man who shouts at clouds, he’s got nothing on Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. Neither of them can stand Chuck Hagel for the simple reason that he is a constant reminder that there...

Wayne LaPierre is tainting everyone who belongs to the National Rifle Association as some kind of bedwetter. Growing up in my insular little Ivy League town, I almost never saw a gun. One exception was the father of one of my...

A lot of people served in Vietnam who didn’t want to go. They were drafted. Tens of thousands of them died. John Kerry volunteered to go. Chuck Hagel was drafted and assigned to Germany. He requested to be sent to Vietnam...

This is just a quick note on the filibuster. It’s poorly understood, so I want to give a brief explanation of what it is, what it is not, and how you know if you are witnessing one. In the popular imagination, when someone...