Author: BooMan

Coming Together, Coming Apart

Living, as I do, in the progressive online community, I am always wallowing in the internal divisions of the Democratic Party. Yet, patching up the left for next year’s election cycle should be relatively easy. It’s...

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Republican Schizophrenia

Jennifer Steinhauer has a good article up at the New York Times. It’s really a kind of landscape of Republican schizophrenia. There are the people who are crazy, the people who pretend to be crazy, and the people who...

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The GOP Is Costing You Money

There are significant and troubling issues in the European economy that are freaking out investors and causing negative volatility on Wall Street. Everyone is worried that Greece will default on its debt and cause a banking...

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Wishful Thought

I wish Exxon/Mobil and the other giant energy companies would use their enormous warchests to diversify the kinds of things that they do rather than to fund pseudoscience and the spread of stupidity about the climate. Back at...

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Wamker of the Day: Jeff Kuhner

Okay, this is hilarious. In the Moonie Times, Jeff Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute has penned a ludicrous diatribe in response to the president’s speech last night. It concludes with this: Mr. Obama is a man of the...

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