Author: BooMan

Health Insurance is Stupid

People are bashing Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) for saying that people diagnosed with brain tumors shouldn’t be provided millions of dollars of health care. What he meant was that it’s stupid for someone who is uninsured...

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The New Jim Crow Comes to PA

As most of you know, I worked for ACORN/Project Vote during the 2004 election as a county coordinator. As a result, I have direct experience working with people of color in Philadelphia’s inner city and I am not at all...

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Damn Fools

We probably could have avoided the Civil War if the slave owners had realized that they could get guys like Michael Steele to head the Republican Party and they could pay slaves like Allen West to compare freedom to slavery. Why...

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Rich People, Let’s Make a Deal

Do any of you make over $250,000 a year in taxable income? And, if you do, would you mind paying a modest 4-5% additional tax on all the money you make in addition to that first quarter million so that people won’t have...

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Romney: A Straight-Laced Clark Griswold

I guess there was a little time-delay in this becoming news, but it is one more reminder that it is going to be painful to watch Mitt Romney try to rally the conservative movement to his side during the convention in August and...

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