Author: BooMan

Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman have a long piece in Politico about why this presidential campaign seems so lame. I have a simple answer for that. Our politics have been broken by a combination of Republican strategy and...

It’s difficult to explain how Nate Silver calculates his “tipping point state” formula, so if you are really interested in the details, go read his article. The basic idea, however, is fairly simple. In any...

John Boehner’s problem can be summed up this way: 56% of Republicans think we should deport children who were brought here illegally by their parents many years ago, who attended our schools, who graduated, who have no...

If I had a quarter of a billion dollars like Mitt Romney, I’d probably still go to WaWa. But the thing is that I wouldn’t have a quarter of a billion dollars for very long. I would give almost all of it away. I...

Sigh. I am so tired of the stupid way right-wingers look at foreign policy. They see the words “Muslim Brotherhood” and they pee their pants. What they ought to do is keep an open mind about the Muslim Brotherhood....