Author: BooMan

Steve Benen does a pretty good job of explaining why I am not eager to discuss our budget and our deficits. Talking to Republicans about finances is like being in a Lewis Carroll novel. It’s so pointless that it just makes...

It’s not my job to tell the American people what to think. My job is to listen to the American people. Having said that, the state of Ohio has said that John Boehner was born there. That’s good enough for me. Boehner says he...

I’m not looking forward to the jockeying over our federal budget. Our structural deficit is too huge for our country to operate as it has in the past. The Republicans’ answer to this is basically to gut the federal...

Bradley Burston is making a lot of sense. I particularly liked the following excerpt because it is something that has been on my wish list for a while. What if, in an evolving Middle East, people speaking about the...

In thinking about what is next for Hosni Mubarak, it pays to familiarize yourself with the long, sad odyssey of the Shah’s exile (pdf) which saw him go from Teheran to Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to Mexico to New York...