Author: BooMan

It’s Easier to Negotiate With Idiots

I’ve said from the beginning, which was a long time ago, that the price for getting any kind of Grand Bargain would be that Medicare gets dinged in some way on the benefits side. But I have also always maintained that the...

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Things are a Little Tense

A Fox News contributor decided to try to talk to union members in Michigan near the Americans for Prosperity tent they had torn down. It didn’t go well.

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How Does TARP Look Now?

Bailing out American International Group (AIG) was probably the most unpleasant part of the whole Wall Street bailout. It was also the part I expected to cost us the most money. How does that look now? WASHINGTON—The Treasury...

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Are We as Divided as We Think?

During the four days I just spent in southern Alabama there were plenty of signs of conservative culture, from the ubiquitous churches to the types of displays seen in restaurants and bars. But there were very few overtly...

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