Author: BooMan

Peter Diamond is good enough at economics to win a Nobel Prize, but not good enough for Richard Shelby to give him a confirmation vote on the Senate floor. For months now, Sen. Richard Shelby has been blocking the nomination of...

My congressman has no gonads. He agreed to debate Manan Trivedi yesterday. Sort of. Before the debate, there was a dust-up over press coverage. The League of Women Voters, which held the event, did not allow video or audio of...

A week ago, CQ Politics laid out three scenarios for the how the midterms might turn out. All of them were painful to contemplate. Essentially the scenarios were ‘catastrophically bad,’ ‘unthinkably bad, and...

This dude is going to be so awesome in the U.S. Senate: Not.

After New York City experienced one of the most appalling anti-gay crimes in recent memory, the Republican nominee for governor, Carl Paladino, decided to visit an Orthodox Synagogue in Brooklyn and deliver an anti-gay diatribe....