Author: BooMan

Looks Like a Huckabee-Romney Ticket

Chris Cillizza takes a look at the few strengths and many liabilities of the top ten Republican candidates for president. First, a list of those candidates: Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Newt Gingrich...

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What’s Your Inner Duke Telling You?

Peggy Noonan is so weird. I especially enjoyed her projection of how the president feels about sexual repression as it relates to Americans’ opposition to junk-touching (SAR is short for Noonan’s proposed...

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Weird Israeli Politics

Despite having 85 new members of the House and several new senators, Eric Cantor of Virginia is still the only Jewish Republican member of Congress (one race is still undecided). So, this is a bit odd. With powerful friends like...

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Eight Year-Olds, Dude

I’m not one to recoil reflexively at all talk of bipartisanship. I know that some lip-service needs to paid to the illusive goal of getting both parties to come together to make compromises to solve problems. So, I...

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David Broder, Wrong Again

I should have known that the historic, successful write-in campaign of Sen. Lisa Murkowski would revive David Broder’s tender parts. I should have seen that coming from a mile away, and stayed clear. I think the Alaskan...

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