Author: BooMan

I Voted Today, Did You?

I went to vote today. At noon, only 172 people had voted at my precinct which is what you would expect in the first half-hour during a presidential election. Part of the problem is that there aren’t any sexy races on the...

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How We Get a Brokered Convention

If Mitt Romney is going to be the Republicans’ nominee for president, he’s going to do it through Establishment support. The fact that he can raise $10 million in a single day is an indication of his popularity...

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Coming Up: Free Trade Agreements

I haven’t really studied the proposed free-trade deals with Panama and Colombia, but I can support the free-trade agreement with South Korea. After the disastrous midterm elections, I didn’t expect much of anything...

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Bring On Ron Paul!

Ron Paul is so awesome. I really hope he wins the Republican nomination. No one really gives him a chance, but the Republican Party of 2012 is a whole lot more like Ron Paul than the Republican Party of 2008. Why settle for...

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Mistah Trump, He Dead

Greg Sargent writes the epitaph for Donald Trump’s aborted presidential campaign: Even putting aside the killing of Bin Laden, a high visibility huckster/reality TV star like Trump was the perfect agent to reveal the cheap...

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