Author: BooMan

I think the last Secretary of the Treasury who had never been either a banker or a CEO/President (before Tim Geithner) was James Baker. Before Baker, you have to go back to John Connally (the guy in the car with Jackie and JFK)....

David Firestone is a bed-wetter. That is all.

George Packer’s article in The New Yorker about the increasing isolation of the South is interesting, but I wonder why I never see anyone mention how the GOP is just a constant annoying source of unnecessary stress for...

Benjy Sarlin has a very interesting piece up at Talking Points Memo about how unions evolved from seeing undocumented workers as scabs during the era of Cesar Chavez to seeing them, in more recent years, as an exploited...

I don’t know if you’ve seen the film Lincoln or not, but one of the key elements of the plot is an elaborate bribery/patronage scheme that President Lincoln launched to entice members of Congress to vote for the 13th...