Author: BooMan

Open Thread

Congratulations to the Chicago BlackHawks for winning their first Stanley Cup in forty-nine years. You earned it. But the Flyers had a truly magical playoff run. I’m just going to supply some quality tunes before I make my...

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Stupid Ideas

Twelve percent of the seats in the House of Representatives are from California. About 50 of those 53 seats are uncompetitive. The system is broken. But the solution is probably a bit worse. California drew safe districts after...

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Obama Gets Sanctions on Iran

Obama got his (somewhat weak) international sanctions on Iran today. That’s an accomplishment. There’s exactly no chance that a President McCain could have convinced China or Russia to go along with sanctions even if...

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Go Big on Climate

There’s a lot of speculation over how the Senate is going to handle the energy bill, most of which is fueled by comments that Sen. Schumer made on Monday. Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Senate...

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AR-Sen: Postscript

Ever since I read Gene Lyons and Joe Conason’s The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, I have known that Arkansas is a weird place that is not easily understood by...

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