Author: BooMan

Apparently, as part of Harry Reid’s agreement not to push for filibuster reform, he extracted a promise that Mitch McConnell will not attempt to use the 51-vote “Constitutional Option” to change the rules when...

What Sunday is to Christians, and Saturday is to Jews, Friday is to Muslims. It’s not a sabbath exactly, since there is no requirement that adherents ‘rest,’ but Friday does have a midday obligatory communal...

It seems like the field of Republican presidential candidates is growing rather than shrinking. With Jim DeMint the latest to throw his lure in the water, it’s doubtful that there is a venue in America that can stage a...

Sometimes it seems like the GOP is part of a borg controlled by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. So, it should be interesting to see how the rank-and-file Republicans respond to this joint announcement from the Chamber and the...

Whatever Dennis Kucinich’s merits, and he has quite a few, he is a spectacularly tone-deaf politician. First of all, let me stipulate that it’s completely idiotic and irresponsible to put unpitted olives on...