Author: BooMan

In 1920, at the Republican National Convention, the party promised to pass an anti-lynching bill. They followed through on that promise in 1921 and passed a bill through the House of Representatives. Southern Democrats in the...

Michael Gerson thinks Mitt Romney needs to talk more about his Mormon faith. Intuitively, this sounds like terrible advice. People believe in revelation when it is shrouded in the distant past. When it comes from a guy who...

Mitt Romney doesn’t like getting blamed for the quick death of this man’s wife. It’s a tough ad. Bain Capital took this couple’s health insurance away in 2001, so this falls into that category of events...

The sins of Richard Cohen have been well-documented. I don’t think I need to recount them all here. All that is important is that you realize that Cohen is one of the rare ‘liberals’ who applauded when Poppy...

If 2012 is going to be a wave election (either way) we will begin to get some signs of it before too much longer. Both sides still have very large arrows in their respective quivers, so we can’t assume that small signs...