Author: BooMan

FUBAR

This is what the total lack of oversight can do for the world economy. Beyond sloppy documents, the foreclosure debacle has exposed one of Wall Street’s little-known practices: For more than a decade, big lenders sold...

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Unbelievable Polls

It’s embarrassing that The Hill commissioned a poll from Mark Penn and Doug Schoen. Guess what it purports to show? Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the...

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Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos

There are intended and unintended consequences of the Party of No Strategy that was hatched by Mitch McConnell prior to Obama’s inauguration. “Their goal,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip,...

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They Hate Us

Jon Ralston is the best political reporter in Nevada, and he’s pretty alarmed about what he’s seeing both there and in the country. I think he’s on to something when he takes issue with Sharron Angle’s...

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Casual Observation

Everyone loves to hate the Yankees, and I fully understand the resentment. But I hope people on the left, at least, understand that the Texas Rangers are the greater evil.

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