Author: BooMan

It’s kind of weird to see Bloomberg News savaging the big banks like this, but we have to give them credit for reporting the facts. I just read the article and my first impression is that there is less news here than meets...

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Seeing the Manchester Union Leader endorse Newt Gingrich for president I feel a pang of sympathy. It’s easy for me to imagine a situation in which Evan Bayh was being set up as the inevitable Democratic nominee and in...

Of the roughly seventy-six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, thirty-two members are white. The rest are black or Latino or Far Eastern or Pacific Islander or Caribbean or some combination. Another way of looking...

Here’s your chance. We can check back later to see how you did. Who do you think will win the Republican nomination and why? For bonus points, predict the Republican ticket and explain the rationale. Anyone who gets both...