Author: BooMan

Steve Benen persuasively argues that the Republicans now believe that they cannot get anything worth having out of threatening the full faith and credit of the United States again, and they will give us a clean bill on the debt...

John Fund is trying to revive the outrage that surrounded the 2009 Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremists. Remember, the right won that battle, probably to the detriment of the public’s safety....

It’s early, yet, but it looks like the Algerian government screwed the pooch and went and got a bunch of Western oil/gas workers killed who were being held hostage by jihadists. And they didn’t even call Obama or...

Peanut butter and jelly or tuna fish? Also, what kind of jelly, and oil or water?

It’s interesting to read former Prime Minister John Howard’s retelling of how he outlawed assault weapons in Australia. They also have a federal system with strong states’ rights. So, all he could initially do...