Author: BooMan

I know we are all concerned, to varying degrees, about the Republicans making large gains in the midterm elections, but demographers will tell you that, in the long term, the GOP is in really bad shape. The age and race...

Setting aside your feelings about our Afghan policy, what do you think of Obama’s decision to cashier McChrystal and replace him with Petraeus? I mean, not only as a military matter, but a political one.

I didn’t see anyone predicting that Gen. Petreaus would be taking over for Gen. McChrystal. I think that is because it is a demotion. I noticed early on in the Iraq War that the only places that seemed to be going well...

I wonder if the Republicans will really boycott the Elena Kagan hearings.

Jack Abramoff is getting into the pizza business. I didn’t see that coming. In other news, the Republicans have countered their cyclical advantage by nominating some really bad candidates. Take David Vitter, for example....