Author: BooMan

Obama is remaking his administration, as is detailed in John Heilemann’s big piece in New York magazine. Judging the ultimate political impact of this endeavor will be impossible until November 2012. But contrary to the...

Bob Cusack has seven reasons why the Republicans will have a hard time beating Obama in 2012. I think his explanations are generally accurate, but they’re a little bit shallow. Let’s take them in turn. 1. Incumbents...

Assuming that there isn’t significant filibuster reform, it seems to me like it’s inevitable that there will be some kind of government shutdown. The Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on...

One thing that was confirmed by the recent WikiLeaks release is that the rest of the world is significantly less inclined to take any of the innocent prisoners at Guantanamo because we are not willing to take them ourselves....

The CIA’s zombies never die. Dewey Clarridge is still running amok two decades after Poppy pardoned him on Christmas Eve 1992. This is the guy running his own private spy network in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The private...