Author: BooMan

I’m no expert on fish but I know that overfishing is threatening the Atlantic Cod population. I know that that puts New England fishermen in a tough position. People need their fish sticks, but the industry doesn’t...

When it comes to predicting the outcome of presidential elections, I get pretty bored with the sophisticated models of academics who look at GDP growth and unemployment figures and right track/wrong track or personal popularity...

Last week the Senate voted to invoke cloture on a bill to save the U.S. Postal Service. Ordinarily, “invoking cloture” means that the Senate agrees that there will be a simple-majority vote on the underlying bill. It...

The New York Times notices that the president has been forced to resort to unilateral executive action to get things done because Congress is broken. The Times even noticed something else: For their part, Republicans appear to...

It looks like the consensus is that Mitt Romney will choose one of the architects of the economic collapse as his running mate: There is no doubt in the minds of Republican National Committee members that Mitt Romney will be...