Author: BooMan

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One of our saving graces this year might be the increase in early voting. I was watching MSNBC this morning and they were suggesting that early voting helps the Republicans because they tend to vote early more often than...

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Someone Teach Beck Some History

I generally ignore Glenn Beck, but I think I need to respond to his latest outrage. He was trying to say that Obama’s health care reforms are going to basically enslave people by making them paying higher premiums. Then he...

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START Depends on Nuclear Modernization

I’m shocked to learn that Sen. Jim DeMint is implacably opposed to ratifying the START Treaty. On the other hand, it sounds like it has a good chance of being ratified in the lameduck session after the elections. However,...

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Looks Center-Right To Me

Ryan Lizza’s latest piece in The New Yorker is about how climate change legislation failed in the Senate, but it’s also about how you pass a big, contentious bill in the Senate. And the way you do that is largely to...

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