Author: BooMan

Will Gang of Six Get Anywhere?

It’s kind of weird that Barack Obama and Tom Coburn are good friends. I haven’t yet seen the president derive any benefit out of the friendship. And I really don’t feel comfortable about Coburn being part of...

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People Should Listen to Me

France and Britain were so keen to intervene in Libya and now they’re stuck with a stalemate and are reduced to bitching at NATO to do more to try to oust Gaddafi. I’m sorry, jackasses, but I told you so. I also told...

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Our Structural Disadvantage

The intertubes are clogged with the choral wailing of frustrated liberals. Digby provides a good example, but the same is available pretty much anywhere else you’d think to look. The fact is that there is no liberal...

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Natural Gas is Not the Solution

It’s pretty depressing to learn that natural gas is actually doing more to cause climate change than burning coal. The problem, the studies suggest, is that planet-warming methane, the chief component of natural gas, is...

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Why Mess With Medicare?

I kind of get the idea behind floating Paul Ryan’s budget plan. It shifts the conversation to the right, and all that. But it still seems like a reckless political move. After all, we already can see Paul Begala, who ran...

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