Author: BooMan

Back on March 28th, I wrote about the Montana Corrupt Practices Act amicus brief. As a reminder, one consequence of the horrid Citizens United Supreme Court ruling is that it invalidated state laws that limit or ban corporate...

Most hardball political tactics are unattractive, but I have a soft spot for this from the notoriously brass-knuckled mayor of Chicago: The Chicago angle on this is that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s former chief of...

I guess we won’t have to destroy the Chicago Cubs after all. That little Jeremiah Wright trial balloon was popped like a bottle of champagne. Still, I’m sure Mr. Ricketts will figure out some way to make trouble. He...

The Washington Post reports that last year, for the first time, a very slight majority of the babies born in this country were not white. I understand that articles like this are going to make some white people uncomfortable. I...

One of the annoying things about the Clerk of the House of Representatives’ webpage is that it is very difficult to identify who voted yes and no on a bill. Unlike the Senate page (example here), which sorts the votes...