Author: BooMan

Because the Senate Judiciary Committee has the responsibility to vet nominees for federal judgeships, both parties are normally careful to put only the most ideologically reliable members on the panel. When they don’t, as...

What’s the best thing that happened today? You can choose what you want, but for me nothing topped learning that James Carville and Mary Matalin had been shit-canned by CNN.

It’s interesting that Fox News is having the worst month they’ve experienced since August 2001. Perhaps something has finally broken the 9/11 fever. I wonder how many people there are in this country who looked at...

I would never have noticed the Life of Julia if I hadn’t seen conservatives bashing it. And I would have already forgotten about it if conservatives were willing to let it go and stop mentioning it in derisive tones. I...

Imagine that it is June 1964 and Congress is getting set to vote on the Civil Rights Act. What do you think will happen if the New York Times sends a reporter to Greenville, South Carolina to gauge the mood of public opinion?...