Author: BooMan

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. That makes him a fairly high-ranking member of the nation’s national security team. Not too high, obviously, but he gets briefed on things...

David Waldman tells us what is supposed to happen in Congress this week. Unchastened by their angry constituents, the House GOP plan was to come back like gangbusters this week, bringing to the floor not one but two ACA repeal...

I think it’s only polite when the country has a huge success to kind of back off the criticism and nitpicking for at least a day. I don’t mean necessarily that ordinary folks should feel restrained in any way, but...

I think the 9/11 attacks damaged us all. I think we’re all walking around with emotional scar tissue. And even those who were not directly affected were wounded by the way this country chose to respond. A friend of mine...

Imagine it is exactly eight years ago. President Bush has just stood in a flight-suit on an aircraft carrier and told us that major combat operations in Iraq are over. In the backdrop was a giant banner with ‘Mission...