Author: BooMan

I haven’t been following the debate over the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act which is now being debated in the Senate. But it seems like a set of reforms that are long overdue: The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a...

If you say stuff like this, you might be a redneck. “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery. Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America?” — Jack Kershaw, League of the South board member, 1998. If...

I’m sure the American people went to the polls two weeks ago thinking that it would be a good idea to put a racist in charge of immigration policy in the House of Representatives. As one of its first acts, the new Congress...

As we just learned, it’s easier for Republicans to pick up House seats in blue and purple districts during midterm elections because turnout is low and the people who don’t turn out come disproportionately from the...

I fell asleep last night (and, coincidently, woke up) watching a hearing of the House Science Subcommittee on Energy & Environment chaired by Brian Baird (D-WA). The topic was climate change and there were three panels of...