Author: BooMan

I don’t care if you call me a progressive or a liberal. I actually consider myself kind of a hybrid between the two. I’m basically a New Deal Democrat without the segregation, and a Progressive Reformer without the...

I think Sen. Patty Murray’s time has come. She’ll be taking over the gavel of the Budget Committee from Kent Conrad in January, and she just presided over the reelection of every Democratic incumbent as chairwoman of...

Kimberly Strassel and Rahm Emanuel have very different messages. Ms. Strassel, writing in the Wall Street Journal, warns conservatives that the president’s superior turnout operation is not responsible for his victory and...

“The Century of the Common Man” Vice-President Henry A. Wallace’s May 8, 1942 speech articulating the goals of the war for the allies. This is a fight between a slave world and a free world. Just as the United...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could figure out how to have more days on which Republicans discover, once and for all, that they are wrong about stuff? “Today’s Republicans cocoon themselves in an alternate reality...