Author: BooMan

Right now, tonight, I can’t do Dick Lugar justice. I’m not in the mood to research his voting history over the last 36 years for examples of both sensible effective legislating and ckickenshit conservative...

The price we pay for not consistently keeping our focus on how Congress actually works is that we get into dumb arguments about things like the proper definition and relative merits of “centrism.” I don’t...

Setting aside the many problems I have with Bill Clinton, I think he is by far the most effective surrogate in the country. More than any other partisan commentator, people will listen to Clinton when he takes Obama’s side...

There are two reasons why this is happening. There are two reasons, for example, why Atlas Van Lines can’t find anyone to drive its trucks in Louisville, and why Dallas can only afford to give job training to 43 out of the...

I wonder what Ms. Murillo’s boyfriend will think if he ever sees the following printed in the pages of the New York Times: Esmeralda Murillo, a 21-year-old mother of two, lost her welfare check, landed in a shelter and...