Author: BooMan

Medical Breakthrough on AIDS

Science may have provided a breakthrough on women’s health: South Africa is considering rolling out use of a vaginal gel which can protect women against HIV during sex before it is officially licensed by drug regulators,...

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Parties Change Their Character

Parties can change their character slowly and almost imperceptibly over time. To see how it has changed you have to look back quite a way and do a comparison. Can you imagine any Republicans today voting in favor of the Brady...

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Ranking Progressivism

Here are the ten most progressive members of the House of Representatives (as measured by lifetime Progressive Punch scores on crucial votes): 1. Grijalva, Raul D AZ-7 2. Schakowsky, Jan D IL-9 3. Baldwin, Tammy D WI-2 4....

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Too Extreme for Trent Lott

As I wrote about a few days ago, Rand Paul told the National Review that (if elected) he intends to join a Tea Party caucus with Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn. He’s hopeful that Sharron Angle of Nevada and Mike Lee of Utah...

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Go About Things Positively

Paul Krugman is an economist and a pundit, and he wants to convince people of certain economic realities, like the wisdom of increased deficit spending in the short-term to improve our budgetary situation in the long-term....

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