Author: BooMan

There is a recommended diary at Daily Kos by a user named puakev that does something I’ve been wanting to do all year. It goes back and looks at how liberals and progressives reacted and interacted with the FDR...

It’s that time of the month when I ask some of you to make a contribution to the care and maintenance of the Frog Pond. For a while now I’ve been dependent on the considerable generosity of our readers to keep this...

One of the more interesting things discussed in Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece on Israel and Iran is the way Israel views the threats of a nuclear Iran that are unrelated to the actual use of the weapons. The challenges posed by...

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post dubs Jane Hamsher the founder of the carping cavilers of cyberspace. The name was inspired by Hamsher’s decision to liken press secretary Robert Gibbs to Spiro Agnew of “nattering...

I suppose the White House will take narratives like this, even if they are terribly misleading. The headline victory belonged to Sen. Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat who, with extensive help from Obama and the party...