Author: BooMan

I’m Ashamed of Our Cowardice

What the 9/11 attacks exposed is that we’re a nation of cowards who don’t have the guts to live up to our convictions. That’s why Senator Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg complained about having trials for the 9/11...

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Republican Chutzpah

The Republicans’ willingness and ability to use the budget process to offer another staggering redistribution of wealth from average Americans to the top two or three percent is pretty depressing. Let’s look at how...

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Redistricting Reform

Redistricting season is upon us and legislatures are beginning to draw up their maps and allow public comments. The Democrats peaked two years too early, and losing everywhere in the 2010 midterms means that the Republicans are...

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SCOTUS Delivers Another Blow

The Supreme Court that George W. Bush gave us just keeps on giving. Their newest innovation is to revoke individuals’ standing to bring cases to court objecting to the use of taxpayer dollars to fund activities that...

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A Heroine in a Chaotic Yemen

If you want to be inspired, read about Tawakkol Karman (“a thirty-two-year-old [Yemeni] woman who runs an organization dedicated to protecting journalists”) on page four, page five, and page six of Dexter...

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