Author: BooMan

In my experience, presidential debates don’t matter. By normal standards, the Democrats tend to win these debates, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Did Al Gore wipe the floor with George W. Bush? Yes, almost as...

Here’s some information from the U.S. Census Bureau: Real median household income in the United States in 2011 was $50,054, a 1.5 percent decline from the 2010 median and the second consecutive annual drop. The...

Because I largely ignore right-wing media, I was slow to get to this story. Apparently, the right-wing’s latest obsession is the fate of Shakil Afridi, a man who cooperated with the United States in their search for Usama...

Markos has never really fancied himself an analyst. He makes predictions, but not in any kind of methodical way. He gets a feel for things and then he lets it rip. And that’s fine. That’s why he can talk so much...

If the Romney campaign would ever stop lying, obfuscating, refusing to talk about his proposals, and insulting everyone, the press would probably revert back to cutting him an inordinate amount of slack. It seems that Boston is...