Author: BooMan

Sens. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Jim Webb of Virginia are both retiring from the Senate. They need new jobs. Maybe that is why they are the only two members of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote against extending the...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a cool thing that Democracy for America is doing to empower women (and the men who care about them). It’s an online series of training seminars covering a variety of topics. Last week...

When I joked about the truth dying, I wasn’t entirely unserious. As I discussed yesterday, and as Steve Benen discusses today, the Affordable Care Act has been scored by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...

As a rule, I do not believe anything I read in the U.K. Telegraph because I consider it the least reliable “mainstream” paper in the English language. Less reliable even than the Washington Times. The Telegraph is...

I don’t know what Frank Rich is talking about. America is not in decline. The problem is that people don’t go to Sally Quinn’s house to fraternize anymore. The problem is even deeper than than that, though. I...